Years ago, when Maureen Meyer (BUS ’90) was an undergraduate at DePaul, she struggled with self-confidence. She wasn’t sure of herself and her abilities as a young person trying to make it in the world. It’s that same feeling of uncertainty expressed by current business students that Meyer sought to alleviate during a dinner at…
Giving Back: Investing in Success
Investment Manager Lori Holland Gives Back to Honor the Past, Secure the Future By Chris Anderson When Lori Holland (BUS ’84) says she has “basically been working at the same place for 20 years,” she characteristically understates how far she has come in her career. As managing director and a senior advisor on the multiasset…
Alumna Natalie Jaresko, Ukraine Finance Minister, Returns to Her Roots
By Lori Ferguson As Ukraine’s Finance Minister, Natalie Jaresko (BUS ’87) lives thousands of miles away from where she was born and much closer to the roots that she holds so dear. The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Jaresko was raised in the western suburb of Wood Dale, Ill. and later in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood….
DePaul Alumni Among Executives Enhancing Student Learning
It’s been four years since Nate Muszczynski (BUS’11) was a student at the Driehaus College of Business, yet he’s just as recognizable now at the Loop Campus as he was back then. That’s because the category manager at Walgreen Co. frequently visits undergraduate classes as a guest speaker, enhancing the learning of current DePaul students…
Celebrating Our Ties to Business
The close relationship between the Driehaus College of Business and the business community began more than a century ago, when DePaul became the first university to locate its business college in Chicago’s Loop. The move downtown fostered collaboration between professors and business leaders to bring real-world knowledge from the city’s center for commerce into our…
An Alumni Workplace Welcome
When it comes to your career, with a little hard work and perhaps some help from DePaul, you just might land your dream job. DePaul’s Corporate Connectors program, a part of Alumni Career Services, offers a great way to get your foot in the door at a company that interests you, and best of all,…
Bidding on Success at Ebay
Alumnus Profile Robert Chatwani (BUS ’97) Residence: Fremont, Calif. Occupation: I work for eBay Inc. as Senior Director of Consumer Marketing. I have the privilege of leading buyer and seller marketing for the world’s largest online marketplace. We’re a dynamic marketplace with over $80 billion in annual trading volume and over 800 million listings of…
By the Numbers: DePaul Business School Rankings
DePaul business programs get high marks for academic excellence and diversity in recent rankings.
College News
Executive Doctorate in Business Administration to Debut Seasoned professionals who want to take their business knowledge—and their careers—to the next level have a new option: the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (EDBA). The degree, which the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business will begin offering in September, is a three-year, part-time program for working professionals who…
Faculty Focus: Mariana Girju, Data Guru
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…
