What differentiates us is what we do outside of the classroom.” Nick Thomas’s transformation from a shy teen in Ellicott City, Md., to an outgoing, globe-trotting hospitality professor at DePaul began with a part-time job as a hotel bellman. “I really loved the fact that it wasn’t a monotonous job,” Thomas recalls about working as…

Since joining DePaul University more than 30 years ago, Accountancy Professor Mark L. Frigo has taught thousands of students how to create value. Students who take his courses gain a deep understanding of strategy, risk management, accounting and financial analysis, as well as how successful companies achieve sustainable high performance. “Understanding the pattern of strategic…

Even though 98 percent of business organizations have formal policies against it, sexual harassment and other forms of aggression are a persistent problem in the workplace. It’s a problem that Jaclyn Jensen knows well as someone who has been the target of harassment herself and witnessed its demoralizing effect on others in previous workplaces. These…

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…

For DePaul Finance Professor Rebel Cole, it’s not unusual to spend one week helping the Banque du Liban in Beirut stabilize the Lebanese financial system and the next week teaching a finance class on another continent. Throughout his career, Cole has blended practice and theory to develop a unique skill set that allows him to…

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…

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…

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…