“Serving as a journal editor is a very significant academic distinction. To be named the editor of one of the premier journals in a major field is even more significant,” said Kenneth Bettenhausen, Director of MS Management at the CU Denver Business School. Wayne Cascio, Distinguished University Professor and Reynolds Chair in Global Leadership, is one of the most notable professors at CU Denver and can now add another distinction to his résumé, as Cascio was recently appointed as editor for International Human Resource Management for the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS).  Read more

On the 30th anniversary of the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, recent research examines why large organizations as diverse as NASA and BP have a tendency to make the same mistakes again and again, sometimes with serious and far-reaching consequences. The study, written by Assistant Professor of Management David Chandler of the University of Colorado Denver Business School, together with Professor Emeritus Pamela Haunschild and Associate Professor Francisco Polidoro of the McCombs School at the University of Texas at Austin, was published in December in the journal Organization Science.  Read more

The recent drop in oil costs are benefiting the consumer now, but will eventually cost others jobs, including right here at home. In December of 2014 oil was trading at $107 a barrel. Today it hovers around $30. As a result of that free-fall, the value of Colorado’s oil production dropped by more than 34 percent, hitting $5.4 billion last year, down from $8.2 billion in 2014.  Read more

The Director of Finance and Risk Management at the CU Denver Business School Professor Jian Yang is an authority in the Finance world here at CU Denver and abroad. Yang was recently featured in China Daily to talk about stocks slumping across the world precipitated by heavy selling in China as officials in the mainland pulled the plug on a mechanism designed to limit chaotic market activity.  Read more

Finance Professor Jian Yang carries with him many achievements and distinctions. The Director of Finance and Risk Management at the CU Denver Business School has been recognized countless times in the past, including being ranked as one of the 15 commodity friendly professors in the world and among the top 750 (top 4%) most prolific authors in finance worldwide based on the number of publications in 26 core finance journals over the 50 years from 1959 to 2008.  Read more

The CU Denver Business School gives annual awards to faculty members for excellence in research, excellence in teaching for a tenure track and non-tenure track faculty and excellence in service. A committee of the three past winners in each category reviews the annual reports of the faculty and make their recommendations to the Dean. Winners are then invited to submit their dossiers for inclusion in the campus level competition for the awards.  Read more

More progressivity means more progress. Especially after 2008. That’s the Democratic tax philosophy seven autumns after the financial crisis. Voters are still frustrated by the arbitrary quality of the rescues and the uneven quality of the recovery. So Hillary Clinton proposes increases in capital-gains-tax rates for top earners. Clinton’s former fellow candidate Lincoln Chafee offered to raise the top marginal income tax rate to 45% from the current 39.6%.  Read more