To honor the legacy of his late wife, Lorraine “Lori” Holland (BUS ’84), Robert A. Holland has made an $8 million bequest to DePaul University to support student scholarships. Mrs. Holland was a first-generation college graduate who rose to become managing director of investment management firm Neuberger Berman and serve as chair of DePaul’s Board…
Month: October 2021
MacArthur Foundation Grant Supports Housing Research
The Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University (IHS) at the Driehaus College of Business received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support its mission to produce research that informs housing policy and practice in the Chicago region. “We’re excited to continue our long-standing partnership with the…
Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Partnership Supports Business Founders of Color
The Women in Entrepreneurship Institute (WEI) has partnered with the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago to offer WEI’s business accelerator program to Chicago-area entrepreneurs who are women of color. The first cohort of YWCA-identified participants completed WEI’s two-month accelerator workshop last spring. “Women entrepreneurs are less likely than men to have access to capital and resources, and…
Flexibility Is Our New Norm
This fall, we welcomed our business students back to DePaul with a course schedule that offered a range of in-person, remote and hybrid classes. Flexibility has become the new norm for how we deliver business education, shaped by the diverse needs of our students and the novel ways we have learned to teach and support…
Real-World Consulting Projects Prepare Students for Careers
Anissa Patterson (BUS ’21) took her first sports management class at the Driehaus College of Business three summers ago. At the time, Patterson was earning a business administration degree and unsure of what field she wanted to pursue, but she had always been an avid sports fan. So when she learned about a business class…
College Named a Bloomberg Experiential Learning Partner
The Driehaus College of Business has been designated a Bloomberg Experiential Learning Partner, joining a select group of colleges recognized for offering students practical learning experiences using the Bloomberg Terminal, a powerful analytics tool widely used by business and government decision-makers. Most of DePaul’s 20 Bloomberg Terminals are in the Christopher L. Keeley Finance Lab,…
Professor Introduces Students to Fintech Innovations
There is a growing understanding of Fintech’s potential to transform the future of finance.” – Associate Professor of Finance Lamont Black Four years ago, Associate Professor of Finance Lamont Black had the foresight to co-host a two-day workshop for business and computer science students on a subject few knew about at the time—blockchain coding. Since…
Accounting Graduate Brews Coffee Business with Soul
Leticia Hutchins’ four-year-old coffee business has been 500 years in the making. “My family has been coffee farming in Honduras for five generations,” explains Hutchins (BUS ’16), cofounder of Alma Coffee, a Georgia-based coffee roaster and importer. “For generations that was all my family knew, the farming side of coffee. They never roasted their own…
