Congratulations, Spring 2026 graduates! Each semester, the Business School recognizes two graduate, two undergraduate, and two First Generation and Multi-Cultural (FaM) graduating students, whose academic performance and contributions to the University have gone above and beyond, breaking down barriers not only for themselves, but also for their fellow students and future Lynx.   Read more

On Thursday, April 23, over 120 attendees packed into the CU Denver Business School’s Jake Jabs Event Center for the 25^th annual pitch competition for THE CLIMB. The evening event featured live pitch presentations from six CU Denver student teams, a panel of esteemed judges, and a supportive gathering of Denver’s business community. But unlike past years, the biggest question in everyone’s mind wasn’t just who would win the night’s top three prizes, but also how much.  Read more

Ushering in a new era of transparency, Federal rules now mandate that hospitals provide detailed pricing information for common services. However, the presentation of this data is often limited to large, sprawling spreadsheets that are inaccessible to many consumers. This spring, through its annual Case Competition, the Business School Alliance for Health Management (BAHM) challenged 7 graduate student teams to tackle this issue and translate confusing medical pricing information into a comprehensive, comprehensible, customer-facing solution.   Read more

Latatiana Fulgham-Mumford MBA ‘26 has always been a jack-of-all-trades. As a child, she saw herself in a multitude of careers, including those of a therapist, a CEO, and a president. “My dream job was everything. I was always multifaceted.” Her entrepreneurial drive, coupled with her ability to adapt to life’s hurdles and use those challenges as catalysts for evolution, generated a varied resume and a multimedia approach to business.   Read more

For a generation raised on the promise that education opens doors, the long-held belief that a degree leads to opportunity has started to crack. Let’s face it. Tuition keeps rising, forcing families to make trade-offs in real time. At the same time, students are watching graduates struggle through lengthy job searches as they navigate hiring processes that stretch for months, and encounter roles labeled “entry level” that still ask for experience they have not yet had the chance to build.  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

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