How far does the Driehaus College of Business alumni network extend? You’ll find alumni working in Chicago and around the world, in the office down the hall and in the c-suite, in traditional corporations and entrepreneurial ventures. The following graphic illustrates our alumni network reach in numbers:
Month: June 2014
Alumni Profiles
Global Risk Management Director Savors Role at Diageo Name: LaToya M. Lacey, CPA, CFE (BUS ’01) Residence: Stamford, Conn. Occupation: Director of Global Audit & Risk at Diageo, a premium drinks business with brands that span spirits, beer and wine. In this role, I am responsible for conducting and leading advisory reviews and internal audits, including assessment…
Joe Silich’s Measure of Success
Joe Silich (BUS ’92) is one of the preeminent wealth advisors in the nation. But he has never forgotten his working-class roots on the southwest side of Chicago or his first-generation college experience at DePaul. “DePaul allowed me to identify that gift inside of me—in my case, a gift for numbers,” he says. “My teachers…
First Driehaus Fellow Bin Jiang
I’m so lucky,” says Bin Jiang, talking about his appointment as the business school’s first Driehaus Fellow this academic year. Certainly that luck runs both ways, as Jiang has contributed excellent research and teaching as a management professor at DePaul since 2004. The five-year fellowship, funded by a portion of Richard H. Driehaus’ $30 million…
Business World Insights From Driehaus Faculty
A Supportive Work Culture Helps Women “Lean In” Research co-authored by Assistant Professor of Management Alyssa Westring offers new insights into the debate sparked by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling book about the need for women to “lean in” to their careers to succeed. Westring says, based on her research, “If we truly want more…
Alumni Give Back as ASK Mentors
As a finance student at DePaul, Michael Kueker sought advice from others to help shape his professional life. “I knew that I couldn’t do this alone and that it would take much more than just me trying to put my career together,” he says. He took advantage of DePaul’s Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) program, which…
Notes From the Dean
How big is big data? Consider this: before you finish reading this column, Google will process more than 2 million searches, Web shoppers will spend more than $272,000 online, Facebook users will share more than 684,000 posts, brands will attract at least 34,000 Facebook “likes” and Twitter will host 100,000 tweets. This deluge of digital…
College News
Financier Warren Buffett Shares Wisdom With MBA Students What’s it like to discuss careers, investing and the economy with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett? For MBA student Kate Stevenson, it felt like investing two hours to gain “the lessons of a lifetime.” Stevenson and 19 other DePaul graduate business students were invited to query the…
Four Tips for Effective LinkedIn Networking
In the decade since LinkedIn began as a career website, online networking has taken on new importance. “In the beginning, it was more a question of, ‘Should I make a profile?’ Now it’s a given that you need to be on LinkedIn to have a professional presence,” says Christa Hinton (MBA ’98, EdD ’12), assistant…
Big Data Trends
Four Ways Businesses and Individuals Are Becoming Masters of Information Ninety percent of the data that exists in the world today has been created since 2010. The consulting firm IDC predicts that by 2020 this digital universe will expand by a factor of 300, from 130 to 40,000 exabytes. How much is that? One exabyte…
