Sarah Derdowski, GEM’s Director of Operations, will travel to Egypt in May 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. “I want to congratulate Sarah on this achievement,” said Jim Marchiori, GEM Executive Director.  Read more

Three CU Denver Business School faculty members recently won CU Denver Faculty Awards. “This annual tradition is our chance to stop and recognize the excellent work that goes on at our university every day in the areas of teaching, research and creative activities as well as service and librarianship” says Roderick Nairn, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs.  Read more

Executive MBA director’s strategy: global-minded growth Nicholas Hamilton-Archer’s first trips to Denver were not the most auspicious events. But six months later, after becoming the executive director of Executive Programs at the University of Colorado, he’s ready to call Denver home. Hamilton-Archer had crisscrossed the country and the globe, but had never visited Colorado.  Read more

CU Denver Business School finance professor Jian Yang is one of 11 experts who has been invited to the brainstorming meeting to prepare for the 2014 World Economic Forum summer Davos meeting — or the Annual Meeting of the New Champions. The meeting is a summer session, continuing work from the 2014 World Economic Forum winter Davos meeting, which was held Jan. 22-25, 2014, and will be in Tianji City, China in September.  Read more

DENVER – The Wall Street Journal recently quoted University of Colorado Denver faculty member Jahangir Karimi for an article discussing small business’ use of cloud computing, and some of the problems they may face. Dr. Karimi is a Professor and the Director of Information Systems Programs at the CU Denver Business School. The article discussed the fact that while using the cloud can help small business become more lean and efficient in many ways, it can also cause some unintended and unplanned-for issues.  Read more

Cindy Baroway, CPCU, M.Ed., AIC, was elected as the 2013-14 president and chair of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society leadership council at the CPCU Society Annual Meeting on Oct. 27 in New Orleans. Baroway is a lecturer in the Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) program in the University of Colorado Denver Business School. The CPCU Society provides resources, educational programs and leadership opportunities for its 23,000 members in the property and casualty insurance industry.  Read more

DENVER – The Global Energy Management (GEM) program at the University of Colorado Denver Business School has a new leader. Jim Marchiori, the new Executive Director of GEM, has more than three decades of experience working in the energy industry, and played an active role in the program as a former member of the GEM Advisory Council. He has served as interim executive director for the past three months.  Read more