Like NASA, the business world operates in team-based environments. Whether these business-team environments are competitive, volatile or uncertain, they share many similarities with space crews.” Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise was mostly a good leader, according to Neal Outland, a DePaul management and entrepreneurship faculty member who has researched the leadership qualities of real-life…
Faculty Books Offer Tips for Building Relationships and Service-Oriented Work Cultures
The Relationship Diet: How to Create Happy, Healthy, and Valuable Relationships (At Home, At Work, and Everywhere You Go) By James A. Mourey, assistant professor of marketing (James A. Mourey, 2018) Synopsis: Mourey combines 50 years’ worth of social psychology research with more than a decade of corporate consulting experience “to provide a novel relationship…
What Will Be Your Legacy?
Susan Coe Heitsch (BUS ’80) learned a few life lessons during the seven years she worked in the trust marketing group at a major financial institution. “If you don’t have a will, the state determines how your property will be distributed—and it’s not necessarily what you’d have chosen,” says Heitsch, a communications executive in…
Richard H. Driehaus Honored as an Influential Leader
Richard H. Driehaus (BUS ’65, MBA ’70, DHL ’02) is among 33 business school graduates worldwide named to the 2019 Class of Influential Leaders by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the international business school accreditation organization. Each honoree was chosen for being a “shining example of how AACSB accredited business schools…
Housing Boom or Bubble Ahead? Renowned Real Estate Scholar James Shilling Weighs In
A decade has passed since a massive U.S. housing bubble triggered the 2008 financial crisis. Could another housing bubble be brewing? We asked James D. Shilling, the George L. Ruff Endowed Chair in Real Estate Studies at DePaul University, who researches housing and real estate investment trends. A prolific scholar and sought-after speaker at academic and…
Leaders of Today: Bringing Immediate Value to Campus, Business and our Community
Whether they are millennials or members of Generation Z, DePaul business students and recent graduates were born to lead. Ninety-one percent of millennials aspire to be leaders, the Millennial Leadership Study survey conducted by WorkplaceTrends.com found, and nearly half of those surveyed define leadership as “empowering others to succeed.” Meanwhile, according to Forbes magazine, surveys…
Here, We Do
Here, our students are transformed into socially responsible leaders through a real-world education and experiential learning opportunities involving the Chicago business community and our strong alumni network.” If you’ve ridden on public transportation or driven in Chicago over the past six months, you’ve likely seen billboards featuring DePaul’s new brand campaign, Here, We Do. The…
John L. Keeley Jr. Center for Financial Services Launched
Finance students will benefit from innovative academic and cocurricular programming at the newly named John L. Keeley Jr. Center for Financial Services, thanks to a $3 million commitment from the family of the late finance executive John L. Keeley Jr. and the Keeley Family Foundation to the business college. The new center will support academies…
Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Opens
Entrepreneurship among women has been on the rise nationally for two decades, yet venture capital and other resources are often scarce for women business founders. To help redress this disparity and support the success and sustainability of women-owned firms, the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center has launched the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute (WEI). Abigail Ingram, assistant director…
Hospitality School Director Named
Nicholas J. Thomas, interim associate director of the School of Hospitality Leadership at DePaul University, has been promoted to director of the school and associate professor with tenure effective July 1. He succeeds Misty Johanson, who was named dean of the DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business on March 1. In his new role, Thomas will…
