The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program (DFEI) at the University of Colorado Denver Business School is proud to announce Meshach Rhoades, managing partner at Crowell & Moring LLP and Co-Founder of the Latinas First Foundation, as the 2024 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year.  The award recognizes leaders whose work and accomplishments mirror cable television pioneer Bill Daniels’ strong commitment to ethics.  Read more

“10% of people are ‘natural-born’ leaders,”[Gallup 2022]. But does birth define one’s ability to lead? Not according to Correy Ciocchetti, the Bill Daniels Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies at the University of Denver, who believes that no one is born a leader. Cioccehetti believes that, just as people learn to lie and cheat, good leadership is a learned skill, though alternatively rooted in ethics.   Read more

On November 18, 2022, the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program (DFEI) at CU Denver Business School, along with IMA Financial Group, Inc.,  presented the first in-person Ethics OnSite program since the beginning of the pandemic. CU Denver’s Ethics OnSite program provides students access to high-level industry executives and provides learning opportunities around creating ethical business cultures and mitigating risks of ethical breaches.  Read more

The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program (DFEI) at the University of Colorado Denver Business School announces Kellye Gordon, Vice President, Ethics & Compliance and Legal Operations at VF Corporation, as the 2021 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year. Kellye Gordon is being recognized for her hard work in ethics for VF Corporation, which currently employees over 30,000 people.  Read more

A team of four graduate students from the CU Denver Business School took third place at the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative’s ninth annual Collegiate Program Case Competition on Friday, April 16. This is the third time a team from CU Denver has placed in the event, with undergraduate teams winning second place in 2019 and third place in 2016. The Case Competition exposes college students to a thought-provoking business ethics case and is designed to challenge students’ ethical reasoning, give them tools for ethical decision-making, and raise awareness of the importance of principle-based ethics.  Read more

The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program gave students a chance to learn from an expert in white-collar crime and corporate integrity: Eugene Soltes is a professor at Harvard Business School, the author of a best-selling book, and, in the course of his research had regular phone calls with Bernie Madoff. Inspired by watching a late-night crime show, he decided to write letters to white-collar criminals behind bars.  Read more

What does a more ethical social media future look like? As we saw in the popular Netflix docu-drama The Social Dilemma, there is a problem with social media and how it impacts us on an individual and societal level. Now comes the hard part–fixing the problems and creating a more ethical social media future. Join us for a timely discussion with three leading experts that are focused on improving the current state of social media and ensuring that it is aligned with the public interest.  Read more