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

Wired Group President Paul Alvarez, who teaches the Management of Renewable Energies course for the Global Energy Management (GEM) Program, has published a new book that questions the value delivered by huge investments in the smart grid. In Smart Grid Hype & Reality, industry consultant Paul Alvarez concludes that while consumer and environmental benefits are indeed available from smart grid investments, current regulations and ratemaking processes discourage almost all utilities from achieving them.  Read more

Sarah Derdowski, GEM’s Director of Operations, is in Egypt for the Gabr Fellowship. Launched in 2013 by the Shafik Gabr Foundation, the Fellowship is an innovative educational exchange created to foster greater understanding and cooperation among emerging leaders in Egypt and the United States. Derdowski’s group is meeting with world-renowned public figures to explore transnational challenges and cultivate an appreciation of Egyptian & American societies, traditions, politics, business, governance, art, law, media, customs, and religions.  Read more