CU Denver Business School building, new programs and ties to business community mark Dean Ambron as transformational leader “Excellence.” Ajeyo Banerjee, PhD, recalls this simple answer given by Sueann Ambron when asked: “If hired as dean, what would you bring to the Business School?” Her confident assertion, on top of stellar academic credentials and Silicon Valley pedigree, vaulted Ambron to the top of the candidate list.  Read more

Director of Accounting and Associate Professor, Michael Roberts, is no stranger to accounting for taxes.  In fact, he’s quite the expert.  That’s why WalletHub – a “social network for your wallet” – asked him for his opinion for the article, 2015’s Best States to Be Rich or Poor from a Tax Perspective.  The article “identified the best states where people in different income brackets spend the most and least on sales and excise taxes, property taxes and income taxes.”  Read more

Cascio: Lessons in leadership learned from ‘institutional entrepreneurs’ at Robben Island prison

A Chinese proverb says the longest journey begins with the first step. It took countless steps, along with powerful resolve and resilience, but Nelson Mandela and his fellow political inmates in Robben Island prison forged ahead ever so slowly. They transformed a place of brutality and oppression into one of tolerance, dignity and education.  Read more

Sarah Knight is an adjunct professor teaching in the Graduate Tax Program. She has over 20 years of experience providing tax consulting, compliance and litigation support services to closely held businesses, individuals and non‐profits. In the past, she has taught a courses at the Business School on advanced tax topics, including tax issues relating to choice of entity, individual retirement accounts, vacation homes, and executive compensation.  Read more

Football, basketball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse – Colorado has it all. “Colorado is a ‘hotbed’ of sports – from professional to minor league to college,” said Cory Hilliard, CU-Boulder Buffs’ associate athletic director, Business Operations, and adjunct instructor in the CU Denver Business School. For the past two years, Hilliard has taught a graduate-level course: Finance in the Sports and Entertainment Industries (BUSN 6860).  Read more

Senior Instructor of Management Jeffrey Nystrom received the University of Colorado Denver Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching September 5, 2014. Nystrom teaches undergraduate and graduate management classes at the CU Denver Business School. The university-wide award comes a decade after Nystrom received the Business School’s Annual Excellence in Teaching Award.  Read more

Gregg Keizer of Computerworld interviewed Wayne Cascio, Professor of Management at CU Denver Business School, to find out if Microsoft’s proposed 18,000 layoffs are in the best interest of the company. “It creates massive uncertainty and a big drop in productivity,” says Cascio. “People spend their work time on social networking and getting a resume up to date.  Read more