Walk five minutes west of the Driehaus College of Business to the intersection of Jackson and LaSalle, and you’ll be in the heart of Chicago’s financial district. Our college and this vibrant community of banks, exchanges, investment firms and other financial services have enjoyed a close relationship for more than 75 years—ever since DePaul first…
Month: September 2016
Six Tips for New Managers
Earning a business degree can lead to many different opportunities in the workplace including managing a team of employees. Amanda Rzepka (BUS ’07) knew that she always wanted to lead a team, and she earned that chance when she was hired by Jet Support Services, an airline insurance company, as an accounting manager. “I think…
Highflying Executive: Rosemarie Andolino (BUS ’90)
RESIDENCE: Chicago OCCUPATION: CEO and president of MAG USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Manchester Airports Group (MAG), a global airport company that owns and operates four United Kingdom airports in Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth. The U.S. division of MAG was launched in June 2015, bringing three new business lines to the U.S….
Scholar Probes Psychology of Finance
Hongjun Yan embraces unconventional thinking. It’s a mindset that drove him to become an innovative finance professor and scholar, and to join DePaul’s business faculty in July as Driehaus Chair in Behavioral Finance. Yan’s academic journey began in 1991, when he left his small hometown of Weihui in the Henan province of China to study…
By the Numbers: DePaul Student and Alumni Career Connections
Internships and experiential learning help students and alumni find career success.
College News
KPMG Foundation Endows Accountancy Professorship DePaul celebrated Accountancy Professor Sandra Shelton as the newly named KPMG Neil F. Casson Endowed Professor and honored the KPMG Foundation’s generous support for DePaul’s accountancy school at a reception hosted by the Driehaus College of Business in April. “This professorship brings great prestige to the school of accountancy and…
Study Ranks DePaul Highly for Business Education Research
Driehaus College of Business faculty members are among the world’s most prolific scholars of research about business education, according to two new studies. DePaul business professors ranked No. 2 for producing research about marketing education and No. 6 overall for generating business and management education (BME) research among approximately 1,900 institutions surveyed internationally. Management Professors…
DePaul Alumni See Careers Mirror Chicago Cubs Winning Trajectory
It’s been more than a century since the Chicago Cubs won a World Series. Now the Cubs are winning again, and fans have high hopes they’ll go all the way this year. But what is it like to see firsthand the team’s historic transformation? The 12 DePaul alumni – most of them from the college…
Hands-on Investment Decision-making in DePaul’s Finance Lab Helps Alumni Land Jobs
By Hal Conick To confuse DePaul University’s Finance Lab with a real-life trading company would be an honest mistake. All of the ingredients are there: rows of computers, Bloomberg Terminals, multiple TVs with financial programming, and a stock ticker with orange and green lettering running above sprawling photos of Chicago’s Board of Trade and New…
Investing in Futures
By Hal Conick In Chicago’s competitive finance industry, connections are everything. The power of connection is apparent as soon as one walks into the DePaul University Driehaus College of Business. A row of pictures, known as the Finance Hall of Fame, are on display just outside of DePaul’s finance department. Students can look to notable…
