From livestream storefronts in TikTok to high-growth tech startups, Vietnamese business leaders are not waiting for permission to build. In the first half of 2025 alone, TikTok Shop’s gross merchandise value in Vietnam surged by 148% year-over-year, supported by more than 266,000 revenue-generating sellers. Many of them are young adults launching fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands with no more than a smartphone, consistency, and high digital literacy.  Read more

Where do blushes and brushes transition from hobby to career? Dribbling a soccer ball, journaling, crafting a coffee, and solving puzzles. Many pastimes remain just that. A threshold, or rather a starting point, exists at which a person’s next step becomes intentional. That next step is rarely discussed. It is common to hear, “follow your passion,” but rare to consider what passion requests in return: discipline, structure, and the willingness to learn the parts that don’t come naturally.  Read more

Clinton Hughey MBA ’25 grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. ‘Music City’ left him with a fundamental love of music and nature. Nights spent camping beneath open skies lead Hughey to a revelation. “I realized at a very young age that this world is precious, and we need to protect it.” Food also found its way into his heart. Hughey worked in many restaurants, but even before that, he saw food as a unique art form.  Read more

From Large Language Models (LLMs) that fundamentally change how humans work, learn, and create to reusable orbital rockets that cut space research costs by nearly 10x, according to SpaceX, technological breakthroughs have richly influenced the past decade. National Inventors’ Day celebrates such occurrences and honours both historical and current innovators who contribute to technological progress.  Read more

Reinvention is one of life’s quiet constants. It keeps showing up and invites us to grow or imagine something different. The beauty of it lies in our ability to answer that invitation when we’re bold enough to do so, to move forward not because we have to, but because we choose to. ​For Brittany Guzmán Taylor, reinvention has long been a way of moving through the world.  Read more

As the fall semester comes to a close, CU Denver Business School is proud to celebrate five outstanding graduates. Spanning a range of fields, this notable group has not only succeeded within the classroom but also championed their passions in their communities. From discovering spaces for diverse voices to conquering healthcare hurdles, business will continue to be a force for good in the compassionate and capable hands of this class.  Read more

Money feels loud these days. Everywhere you look, someone is talking about making it fast or trying to keep up. Rising costs don’t make it any easier, and the online culture adds pressure to figure things out early, even when most people are still trying to find their footing. It creates a mix of urgency and confusion, an overwhelming public assumption that everyone should understand money instinctively, even though financial education can be limited.  Read more