In the Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) program, industry insights and research acumen meet. A new program in the marketing department amplifies the impact of DBA research. When industry experience and academic research join forces, both fields benefit. This is a core tenet of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program at DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate…
“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,…
New Initiatives and Collaborations Support Student Success
Next month I will have the honor of presenting diplomas to our Class of 2023 business graduates, the culmination of a whirlwind academic year in which our college community made great progress in addressing what must be done to advance the DePaul mission. We started the year by setting three primary college objectives: strengthen our…
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…
Embracing the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Laura Kohl (MBA ’94), Global CIO of Morningstar
Laura Kohl (MBA ’94) remembers when she started to think like an entrepreneur, and it involves Airfone, a pioneering company at the time. She was working toward her MBA in management information systems at DePaul in the early 1990s and had an assignment to bring in a business leader to talk about starting their company….
Accountancy Professor Kelly Richmond Pope Publishes New Book on Fraud
Spotlight on Research by DePaul Business Faculty “Anyone can be victimized by fraud, commit fraud or report fraud. No one is immune. I’ve seen so much over the past 20 years and wanted to offer something from the research that people can use,” says Professor Kelly Richmond Pope, whose new book, “Fool Me Once: Scams,…
Q&A with Hui Lin: Accountancy Professor, School Director and Global Perspectives Advocate
Professor Hui Lin is the recipient of two DePaul Excellence in Teaching Awards. But her influence on student success extends far beyond the classroom. Lin is director of the School of Accountancy & MIS, and she was recently named Deloitte Foundation Endowed Professor at DePaul University. Before these roles, Lin spent a good amount of…
Holland Initiative Supports Women in Finance
The newly established Lori Holland Initiative for Women awarded its first scholarships this spring, part of its mission to elevate opportunities for DePaul women and their allies to advance in the fields of finance and investment management. The multi-pronged initiative is funded by a generous gift honoring the late DePaul alumna Lorraine “Lori” Holland (BUS…
DePaul University Invests $100K in Alumna-Founded Media Company
Visual Feeder receives first investment from Halperin Emerging Company Fund DePaul University made its first investment of $100,000 from the new Halperin Emerging Company Fund in Visual Feeder, an experiential media company co-founded by a Driehaus College of Business alumna. Yaxi Yang (BUS ’14) and her brother Eddie Yang co-founded Visual Feeder, which produces immersive…
BETA Hub Infuses Tech into Business Education
The Driehaus College of Business opened a new resource center in January that is infusing emerging technologies into student classwork and faculty research. BETA Hub — short for Business Education in Technology and Analytics Hub — offers a collection of teaching and research resources that includes virtual reality headsets, a blog creators’ studio, a Neurobusiness…
