Alumni Entrepreneurs by Jennifer Leopoldt Building any kind of business requires passion and hard work, but it also requires know-how and network connections. For more than three decades, the highly regarded entrepreneurship education program at DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business has been helping its graduates blend these ingredients together to achieve success. “You just don’t…
Month: October 2014
Linking Startups
DePaul’s New Startup Lab Will Link Students and Alumni Entrepreneurs Imagine a space where business ideas meet execution and entrepreneur novices convene with seasoned business owners. The space would be dynamic, with tables and chairs on wheels that could be workstations one minute and audience seating for workshops and guest speakers the next. The venue…
Shaping the Future
Alan Kay, the pioneering computer scientist, once said that “the best way to predict the future is to create it.” This advice is being embraced by a growing number of business school alumni worldwide. More than one in ten graduates from the classes of 1959 through 2013 are creating their own futures through entrepreneurship, according…
Finance Legends Share Tips With Students
Richard H. Driehaus (BUS ’65, MBA ’70, DHL ’02), the college’s namesake and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management, and William Farley, chairman and president of LV Ventures, Inc., presented guest lectures during this spring in the course, “Practical Investing: How to Make Money and Enjoy Doing It.” The Department of Finance class, taught by Joel…
Alumni Career Outcomes
A DePaul Career Center survey shows promising employment trends for recent business school alumni.
Faculty Research Delves Into Downsizing and More
Why Do We Buy What We Buy? Why will you buy a T-shirt for $29.99, but not $30? Who buys the bizarre items—for example, a replica of Gandalf’s staff from “Lord of the Rings”—offered in the airline magazine SkyMall? These and other questions are pondered by Assistant Marketing Professor James Mourey in his book, “Urge: Why…
DePaul Marketing Professor Builds Real-World Connections
Zafar Iqbal remembers the exact moment when he discovered the depth of his identity. He was a teenager in the 1980s living in the pensioners’ paradise of Pune, India, when he turned on his television and saw pop icon Michael Jackson “moonwalk” backward across a stage. It was an image that resonated for Iqbal—he wanted…
The Momentum of Many Dreams, One Mission
When the Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign for DePaul University officially closed on June 30, gifts had topped $333 million, making it the largest fundraising effort in the history of the university. “This Campaign has built a stronger DePaul,” says the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president of DePaul University. “Donors understand DePaul’s commitment to…
DePaul Alumna Creates Path to Shape Future Leaders
Corliss Garner (’96 BUS) relished her years as an undergraduate studying finance at DePaul University. Garner, senior manager of Diverse Markets and Community Affairs at BMO Harris Bank, says the opportunity to work full time while attending a well-respected university in the heart of downtown Chicago was a gift. Yet, after graduation, she drifted away…
Students and Alumni Apply Sales Skills to Scholarship Fundraising
By Jennifer Leopoldt A culture of giving back is built into DePaul University’s mission. In one undergraduate marketing class at the Driehaus College of Business, that idea is also part of the curriculum. Students in MKT 377: Fundamentals of Sales & Networking learn and practice sales concepts by “selling” for the Sid Feldman Legacy Fund,…
