Paula Price (BUS ’82) shares her insights from an extraordinary career as a leader By Meredith Carroll Look at Paula Price’s (BUS ’82) resume, and it could be tempting to split it in two. There’s her leadership experience, as extensive as it is varied. There’s her tenure as CFO for multiple Fortune 500 companies; her…
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From Chicago to the FBI: The Education of Sean McWeeney (BUS ’61)
The retired FBI agent, corporate executive, author and philanthropist reflects on the educations he received — in school and outside of it By Meredith Carroll Now retired, Sean McWeeney (BUS ’61) lives a quiet life in Reston, Virginia, with his wife, Millie Cronin. They are both widowers; in fact, they met through Cronin’s first husband,…
Reflecting on 20 Years of Innovation and Vision at the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center
From mentorship to venture funds, learn how the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center has served as a hub of entrepreneurial community in Chicago. Over the 20-year history of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC), one definition of entrepreneurship has risen above the rest. Entrepreneurship at its best is about meeting a need in your community. As CEC Executive…
For Gretchen Shuler, Entrepreneurship Is Joy in Action
Gretchen Shuler, a junior entrepreneurship student at DePaul, has taken a whirlwind journey from ordinary student to student and entrepreneur. One emotion stands out above the rest. For Shuler, entrepreneurship is joy. “Entrepreneurship is enjoying what you do,” she reflects. “Entrepreneurs create companies because they want to do things in a different way. They want…
“Getting the job done in a human way”: William E. Hay Leadership Accelerator Convenes
By Meredith Carroll What does leadership look like? Not just in general, or for people in positions of power, but for you, right now? These are the kinds of questions that the inaugural cohort of the William E. Hay Leadership Accelerator will work together to answer. The cohort met for the first time on Friday,…
Reimagining the Business Major
DePaul’s refreshed bachelor’s in business curriculum is energizing and engaging career-minded students This spring, a temporary thrift store will pop up on DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus. Called Drift, the store will be filled with clothing and accessories donated by students, for students, in an effort to support pocketbook-friendly, repurposed fashion. Fittingly, students designed and…
Olivia Perez: Greenwood Project and DePaul opened “a whole new world for me”
DePaul business major Olivia Perez only started college in September, but she already has a solid base of knowledge about the finance industry, thanks to her participation in summer finance programs hosted by the nonprofit Greenwood Project and DePaul. Two summers ago, a guidance counselor at her high school, De La Salle Institute on the…
Seerat Kaler (BUS ’21): Paying it Forward to Empower Women in Finance
Seerat Kaler (BUS ’21) is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States from Punjab, an agricultural region in India, seeking to raise their children in a place that they believed would offer more opportunities for success. For Kaler, those opportunities came to fruition at the Driehaus College of Business, where she found…
Expanding the Pipeline of Diverse Business Talent
DePaul collaborates with businesses, non-profits and alumni to empower the career ambitions of underrepresented students While corporate America has made modest gains in diversifying its leadership, women and people of color remain underrepresented in the executive ranks of many industries. Women represent a mere 5% of C-suite leaders, according to the McKinsey-LeanIn.Org Women in…
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…
