Do you know an exceptionally ethical business leader? Nominate him or her today! The CU Denver Business School is looking for nominations for the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year award. The process is simple, just visit our Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative events page and complete the Nomination Form. You may also save the form, print and fill it out, and return it to megan.stribling@ucdenver.edu  Read more

The J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) at the CU Denver Business School is pleased to announce the winners of the first Research Fellowship Awards funded by the CME Group Foundation.  The selection committee comprised of three eminent academic Research Council Members. The following applicants were selected as recipients for the award:

• Dr. Victor Aguirregabiria, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, “A Microeconometric Structural Model of the Copper Mining Industry”
• Dr.

The Advisory Council members of the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) at the CU Denver Business School partner and actively engage with the JPMCC so that current students can get distinctive experiential insights and networking opportunities in the commodities world. Members Russ Cranswick, Senior Partner, Resource Capital Funds, a leading mining-focused private equity firm and Bruce Turner, Director of Commodity Risk and Trading, Fonterra, New Zealand, a multinational dairy cooperative and the world’s leading dairy exporter, both sponsored unique opportunities for Commodities students.  Read more

The J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) at the CU Denver Business School will be the home to the Global Commodities Applied Research Digest (GCARD), a new journal that is launching to deliver summaries of top research via the JPMCC’s website. For commodity practitioners, there has not been an accessible source of concise information about current commodities research, either in specific fields or across industries, the GCARD aims to solve this issue.  Read more

According to a survey released Monday by WalletHub, Denver ranks as the second-best place for college grads to start a career. The research site placed Denver second among large U.S. cities, when it comes to starting a career. Salt Lake City placed first. Other large Colorado cities to make the list include: Aurora, which ranked 33rd with a score of 55.68, and Colorado Springs, which ranked No.  Read more

Traveling through Asia on a recent furniture-buying trip, Jake Jabs kept seeing the same low-backed couch in market after market. Feeling a hunch, he put in a bulk order and shipped the “strange-shaped” sofas to his American Furniture Warehouse (AFW) showrooms in Colorado and Arizona. “We sold 69 sets in the first two weeks,” he said. “That’s what you have to do – you need to try things.  Read more

On March 30^th Dennis Moore, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of the Denver Broncos football club visited the Business School at CU Denver and also Professor Lawrence Cunningham’s graduate course in sports sponsorship. His first stop was the CU Denver Marketing Club lead by Senior Marketing Instructor Mary Lee Stansifer. He talked about a number of salient marketing issues involving the Denver Broncos.  Read more