The close relationship between the Driehaus College of Business and the business community began more than a century ago, when DePaul became the first university to locate its business college in Chicago’s Loop. The move downtown fostered collaboration between professors and business leaders to bring real-world knowledge from the city’s center for commerce into our…
Month: April 2015
An Alumni Workplace Welcome
When it comes to your career, with a little hard work and perhaps some help from DePaul, you just might land your dream job. DePaul’s Corporate Connectors program, a part of Alumni Career Services, offers a great way to get your foot in the door at a company that interests you, and best of all,…
Bidding on Success at Ebay
Alumnus Profile Robert Chatwani (BUS ’97) Residence: Fremont, Calif. Occupation: I work for eBay Inc. as Senior Director of Consumer Marketing. I have the privilege of leading buyer and seller marketing for the world’s largest online marketplace. We’re a dynamic marketplace with over $80 billion in annual trading volume and over 800 million listings of…
By the Numbers: DePaul Business School Rankings
DePaul business programs get high marks for academic excellence and diversity in recent rankings.
College News
Executive Doctorate in Business Administration to Debut Seasoned professionals who want to take their business knowledge—and their careers—to the next level have a new option: the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (EDBA). The degree, which the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business will begin offering in September, is a three-year, part-time program for working professionals who…
Faculty Focus: Mariana Girju, Data Guru
By Jennifer Leopoldt With the rise of big data, marketers are finding new and better ways to analyze and predict consumer behavior—and Marina Girju is preparing DePaul students to do the same. “We have a hands-on approach. For every model that I’m introducing, I also have a project where the students have to apply the…
It Takes a Community to Raise a Brand
When DePaul Marketing Professor Al Muñiz completed his dissertation back in 1998, he didn’t foresee that his research would eventually change the way the marketing discipline and industry—and even other social sciences—thought about brands. Muñiz’s dissertation was the basis of a Journal of Consumer Research article that introduced the concept of “brand community.” The term…
College Centers Offer Links to Industry Knowledge
DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business delivers an abundance of resources to students, alumni, faculty and professionals through its centers and institutes. Leveraging the Chicago business community, these centers deliver a wealth of industry-related programming through networking events, continuing education, conferences and summits. The following select list highlights some of the center-hosted opportunities available to…
Zink Scholarship Advances Opportunity and Excellence
“I’ve always tried to be a gladiator for the client,” says Bill Zink (BUS ’70, MST ’77) of his career in public accounting. “If you’re going to be a gladiator, you had better have a good army behind you.” That’s one reason Zink and his wife, Kathleen, are longtime donors to DePaul, and why they established the…
Top Tax Firm Partners with DePaul
When Tom Blaze (MST ’08) decided to earn his Master of Science in Taxation, he benefited from a partnership between McGladrey and DePaul. “McGladrey had a program where DePaul instructors would actually come to our seminar room, which made it very, very convenient. It was almost like it would be foolish not to do it,” says…
