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by Meredith Carroll | Apr 15, 2025

The Stories of DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business

The Business Exchange tells the stories of the Driehaus College of Business: from students who are charting their course to alumni who are forging change; from faculty sharing their expertise to updates from the dean about the college’s strategic priorities and direction.

In the Spring 2025 Business Exchange, Business Education with a Purpose

Dear alumni and friends of DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business: Welcome to the spring 2025 issue of the Business Exchange! This year has been full of exciting news at Driehaus. Our students and faculty are partnering with the CTA to imagine how entrepreneurs...

In Collaboration with the CTA, Entrepreneurial Imagination Meets Historic Infrastructure Investment

MBA students harnessed entrepreneurship to envision revitalization A hub where pet owners can gather to meet neighbors. Urban agriculture using recycled water. Incubators for entrepreneurs and makers. These were just a few of the projects that MBA students, led by...

Business Analytics Capstone Class Sparks Industry Collaboration, Student Success

Capstone class “challenges the status quo” of learning When the co-directors of DePaul’s M.S. in Business Analytics program, Khadija Ali Vakeel and Sina Ansari, embarked on rethinking the program’s capstone last year, they knew they wanted it to center on a...

Deloitte Partner Jenny Ciszewski’s (BUS ’02) Tips for Purposeful Leadership

The Driehaus alumna and first female president of Ledger & Quill was recently recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business For Jenny Ciszewski (BUS ’02), being a leader means understanding how work fits into the full scope of people’s...

Institute for Housing Studies Unearths Hidden Stories of Affordable Housing in Chicago

Consider the intersection between housing market forces and finding a place to live: decades-long cycles play out alongside human-scale stories, each with their own role to play in shaping a city. That intersection is where the Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) does...