You might be in a new job or leadership role, or have made a major mistake, or have recently lost a job, or be entering the workforce for the first time or after a long break. Let’s face it: Almost everyone has serious moments of self-doubt at some point in his or her career.

EDM Inc. named Chris Kerckhoff its director of business development. 

Kerckhoff has more than 30 years of experience in construction/business development. He formerly was a principal with CS Consulting, and he was co-founder and principal in business development with CB&E, where he spent more than 10 years helping to guide that start-up business. 

March 23--As Eau Claire County's new district attorney, Brian Wright knows he won't always be the most popular guy in town.

"I fully expect every decision I make won't have the full support of everyone," Wright said Thursday.

"I have a tough skin," he said. "There's going to be decisions I make that citizens are going to criticize. But that just comes with the territory, and I expect the rewards will far exceed any criticism I may take."

Wright, a partner in Eau Claire's Steiner & Wright law firm since 2000, was appointed district attorney last Friday by Gov. Scott Walker. Wright and Gary King, a prosecutor in the district attorney's office, were the only two applicants for the job after District Attorney Rich White left the office Dec. 31 to work in private practice.

The vote was 49-49 on an amendment to another bill. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said the measure needed 60 votes to move forward. 

The tax break will expire at the end of the year without an extension.

Bennet says Colorado will suffer a "huge economic blow" unless the tax break is extended. Democratic Sen. Mark Udall has said the wind energy industry will crash without it. 

Bloomberg Businessweek awarded higher scores to undergraduate business programs at two Colorado universities.

DU's Denver Law and Daniels College of Business were well represented during the recent Vail Global Energy Forum held in Beaver Creek, Colorado.

The Vail Valley Foundation, in conjunction with Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, (PEEC), hosted the event to address the world’s energy challenges and solutions.

“The VGEF is dedicated to the search for sustainable solutions to one of the most pressing issues of our times – how to ...

A stellar cast of hospitality industry technologists, including many hotel company CIOs and CTOs, will gather at the Four Seasons Hotel.

The University of Denver announced today the passing of deeply respected and beloved management professor Gordon Von Stroh, well known in Colorado for his quarterly apartment Vacancy & Rent Surveys produced for the Apartment Association of Metro Denver and the Colorado Division of Housing. He was 69.

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. ("GWMG" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:GWG) is pleased to announce that it has engaged GMP Securities L.P. and ISM Capital LLP, as co-lead agents, along with Byron Capital Markets Ltd. (collectively, the "Agents") to act as its exclusive Agents in connection with its intention to offer (the "Offering") secured convertible bonds (the "Bonds"). 

The Bonds will become due five years from issuance and will be convertible into common shares of GWMG ("GWMG ...

Other state MBA programs were unranked this year. Last year, the U.S. News examined 441 MBA programs for its rankings, released Monday. Rankings are based on assessments by peer deans and recruiters, starting salary and employment rates for graduates, and student selectivity.

Harvard University topped the national rankings, followed by Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania.

As for part-time MBA programs, U.S. News ranked DU's Daniels No. 87, the U.S. News also ranked law ...

In a political era when people seemingly can't agree on anything, there is near-universal sentiment about the following:

The federal government is broke.

Many local governments are stretched to the limits.

America needs jobs.

So why are some local governments using federal grants the country can't afford to start businesses they've never run in order to compete against private companies that create jobs?

There are no keycards greener than the OpenWays Crypto Acoustic Credential 

that enables hotel guests to unlock their rooms via mobile phone

Chicago—February 29, 2012—As more and more hoteliers look for ways to enhance their sustainability programs, "green guestroom access" should be a priority on the list of things to consider. Over the past few years, the hospitality industry has seen a much increased effort at sustainability knowing that people care about the environment. "Green" ...

WASHINGTON- Faced with a recuperating economy and poll numbers that show Americans feel better about the country's direction, Republicans are beginning to pivot messaging from the bad economy to another issue pressing on the wallet of nearly every American: gas prices.

In the past few weeks, the average price of a gallon of gas has climbed almost 20 cents to a little more than $3 in the Denver area.

"We need to deal with the energy prices now, put this country back to work to reduce the ...

WPBT2, presented William F. Koch, Jr. and Herbert A. Tobin with Lifetime Service Awards as part of the program for WPBT2's An Evening with Jim Lehrer. Koch was presented the award on February 22 at the Kravis Center for Performing Arts and Tobin was presented the award on February 23 at the Coral Gables Country Club. 

William "Bill" F. Koch, Jr. has been on the WPBT Board for 27 years, serving as Board Chair in 1990. Koch came to Florida in 1927. He is a graduate of Rollins College, serves ...

Faced with a recuperating economy and poll numbers that show Americans feel better about the country's direction, Republicans are beginning to pivot messaging from the bad economy to another issue pressing on the wallet of nearly every American: gas prices.

In the past few weeks, the average price of a gallon of gas has climbed almost 20 cents to a little more than $3 in the Denver area.

GOP strategists say that shifting the conversation from "I need a job" to "pain at the pump" is not a total non sequitur. They go hand in hand: Rising gas prices often spike inflation in fragile economic climates and affect everything from the cost of a gallon of milk to the price of a new helicopter purchased by the U.S. military.

Rental properties are a great invesment right now....

Denver Business Journal

February 2, 2012

The apartment vacancy rate in metro Denver was 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, the lowest year-end rate in 12 years, according to a report Thursday by the Apartment Association of Metro Denver and the Colorado Division of Housing.

The Q4 rate -- the lowest for the quarter since 2000 -- was up from the third quarter’s 4.9 percent vacancy percentage, but vacancy rates tend to rise ...

"Andy Taylor is an exceptional leader, a person of character and a role model," Christine Riordan, dean of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, told IBD. "Through his strategic skills, hard work and concern for others, he's built Enterprise Holdings into one of the world's largest private companies, and both Enterprise and Andy have had a very positive effect on their communities at a time when the world needs more people who care."

U.S. manufacturing activity in the month of December rose to its highest level since June and employment in that sector rose with it. The ISM Manufacturing index rose to 53.9 from 52.7 in November and 50.8 in October. An index reading of 50 is an indicator of economic expansion.

Mac Clouse, a professor of finance at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business, says this growth is significant and telling of an economic recovery.

"This is the kind of growth that we need, growth that isn't artificially stimulated, growth that is coming from the solid basic core of the economy," Clouse said. "The manufacturer is purchasing new equipment, which is a sale for somebody else. He's hiring people, so he's gotten someone off of the unemployment line that can now spend a bit more dollars once he or she gets income again, so there are a lot of good domino effects."

Online entrepreneurs typically learn their trade by trial and error. They also acquire skills through online courses — such as those at Practical eCommerce.

But there are also bachelor and master degree programs that concentrate on ecommerce. Here is a list of degree programs that focus on ecommerce. All of the schools have physical campuses, though some also run online degree programs.

Maybe there is such a thing as luck.

On any given day, a line of people hoping to buy a winning lottery ticket stretches through Chuck's Grocery, a small convenience store in central Arlington.

After all, this is the store that sold a $15.4 million lotto ticket in 1994 -- and many smaller winning tickets since.

Gordon Von Stroh, Jamie Van Leeuwen (Senior Policy Advisor for Gov. John Hickenlooper), and mortgage broker Mike Rosser at the Rocky Mountain Communities's award breakfast at the Cable Center.

As Jamie Van Leeuwen was reading the proclamation from his boss, Gov. John Hickenlooper, declaring Nov. 9 as “Gordon Von Stroh Day,” he stopped, caught his breath, turned to the 250 business leaders and associates gathered to honor – and gently lampoon – Von Stroh, and said: “This is the longest proclamation I’ve ever seen. This is a two-hour proclamation.”

Loveland developer Mc-Whinney has submitted plans to the city of Fort Collins to build up to 315 apartments at the intersection of Drake and Timberline roads.

The proposal is winding its way through the Fort Collins development review process, said Mike Hill, senior vice president for multifamily development.

The 15.85 acres sit just south of Fort Collins Police Services and catty-corner from King Soopers.

TAYLOR MADE: Our town's Andy and Barbara Taylor have given the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business a gift of $5 million to foster diversity among undergraduate students.

The money will be added to the already-established Taylor Scholarship endowment of $1 million. The university has matched the Taylors' new gift, bringing the total in the scholarship fund to $11 million.

The vacancy rate in Colorado apartments fell during the third quarter of 2011, dropping to the lowest rate recorded since 2001.

According to a report released Thursday by the Colorado Division of Housing, the combined vacancy rate for apartments in 22 markets across Colorado during the third quarter was 5.0 percent. The vacancy rate was 5.5 percent during the third quarter of last year, and the rate was 5.2 percent during the second quarter of this year.

Mobile technology is on the minds of higher education professionals more than ever before. At the recent HighEdWeb conference in Austin, the itinerary included several ways schools can use social media, blogs and mobile technologies to better captivate its student body. And last week, hundreds of orientation professionals gathered in New Orleans for the National Orientation Directors Association annual conference, where they discussed how to engage with prospective students in modern and relevant ways — including mobile — to welcome the next freshman class.

Rents are rising and competition for apartments is getting stiffer, a new state report shows.

“Rental property is like any other commodity, from bread to crude oil,” said Clark Haggard, a housing counselor for Housing Solutions of the Southwest. “Supply and demand drive the price.”

According to a report released Thursday by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs housing division, apartment vacancies in the state now are at the lowest level since 2001, 5 percent. That’s compared with a 5.5 percent vacancy rate at the same time last year and a 5.2 percent vacancy rate in the second quarter of this year.

Russ Dalbey created the company which is best known for its commercials “Winning in the Cash Flow Business.” His company has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which virtually eliminates a company.

“It not only calls all the dogs off, it then sells all the assets. So after a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a company disappears,” said University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business professor Mac Clouse.

Cloud storage is getting a lot of publicity these days. It’s designed to simplify and consolidate information in one location. But how secure is the technology?Music may be safe on the cloud, but what about personal data? University of Denver business professor Stephen Haag says it’s quite safe.

“The cloud technology on a personal consumer level is safer than storing information in your own home,” Haag said.

Retailers are fighting for every dollar this holiday season, so being a savvy consumer is more important than ever.

Sale signs are everywhere. Retailers are hoping to draw in shoppers and beat the competition all at the same time. “I think having too many sales definitely muddies the waters for us and it means you have to do your homework more,” said Carol Johnson, chair of the Marketing Department in the Daniels College of Business at University of Denver.

Republic Airways Holdings announced Tuesday that it is working with advisers to help find a buyer for Frontier Airlines.

Company spokesman Peter Kowalchuck told 7NEWS that Frontier’s restructuring is nearly complete and that the airline is positioned for profitability in 2012 and for long-term sustainability.

An apartment in metro Denver keeps getting harder to find, as vacancy rates remained below 5 percent in the third quarter of this year, according to a new report from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver and the Colorado Division of Housing.

At a 4.9 percent, the most recent quarterly vacancy rate is the lowest third-quarter mark since 2000, the report found. Last year's third-quarter rate was 5.3 percent.

"Vacancy rates remain near 10-year lows and the vacancy rate has dropped year-over-year for the past eight quarters in a row," report author Ron Throupe, an assistant business professor at the University of Denver, said in a media release.

Business students presented launch plans for real-world interactive TV applications during the first Daniels Interactive Case Study Competition on October 27 at The Cable Center in Denver. The winning team from the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business presented a business plan for a 2-screen synchronized programming app developed by Ball State University students.

There’s a certain mystery about applying for a credit card: Is your credit score good enough for the best card and rate? Just how much credit might you get  if you are approved? What does everyone else get?

Now there are answers to these questions. With a new tool from CreditKarma.com, you can use information from a long list of credit card companies to find the best card for you, and figure out the one that you’re most likely to get approved for.

The University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business has demonstrated significant leadership in integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into its MBA program, according to the Aspen Institute’s 2011-2012 edition of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools. The College ranked No. 15 on a list of the Top 100 business schools, moving up from No. 20 in the 2009-2010 ranking. 

In his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni compares high performing teams to expert oarsmen: “If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”

I recently observed a team that not only had members rowing in different directions, but they were in three different boats. When the boats got close to one another, the members beat one another with paddles. That team was toxic.

Unfortunately, scores of teams are like that, particularly in stressful economic

Colorado is showing slow but positive job growth but has a long way to go to reach pre-recession employment levels, economists said Friday after the state said July unemployment was 8.5 percent.

The Colorado Department of Labor said the rate was the same as June. Employers added 3,200 nonfarm payroll jobs between June and July for a workforce total of 2.24 million jobs. Government jobs declined by 900, and the private sector added 4,100.

Two alumni were honored with Lifetime Academic Achievement Awards by The School of Hospitality Business Alumni Association at Michigan State University during the annual conference of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) in Denver, Colo., on July 28.

The University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business today announced the appointment of

Charles (Chuck) Patti, Ph.D. as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Research. He takes the place of Glyn Hanbery, Ph.D. who retired on June 30, 2011. 

He is currently the James M. Cox Professor of Customer Experience Management (CEM) at Daniels, with significant experience in the academic and business worlds, both within the United States and internationally. He has served as department head at Daniels, school head in Australia, director of executive MBA programs, associate dean, acting dean, and chair of committees at university, college, school, and department levels as well as international collaborations.  Dr. Patti has an extensive teaching background in a wide range of settings, including doctoral seminars, MBA and other specialized undergraduate and   graduate courses as well as executive training.

Stay calm, say investors. That's easier said than done as most people watch their retirements disappear.

Monday's drop in the markets has people panicking.

Gas prices are down in the Denver metro area between three and four cents from a week ago. That’s the good news. The bad news is it’s a double-edged sword. Gas prices are down, but so is the economy.

Deutsche Bank has collaborated with the University of Denver to help teach a business school course on microfinance.

In a unique partnership, Deutsche Bank has collaborated with the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver to create a MBA-level course on microfinance and entrepreneurship. Members of the Bank’s microfinance team help teach the course, particularly aspects of the curriculum covering due diligence and other important analysis of microfinance institutions (MFIs). This culminates in an onsite visit to assist in conducting due diligence on either a current or potential Deutsche Bank client. On March 14th, ten students currently enrolled in this class traveled to Georgia, where they visited two MFIs, one a former client of Deutsche Bank and the other a potential candidate to receive a loan from the DBMDF fund. In addition to visiting the embassy and touring the capital, Tbilisi, the students spent several days visiting the MFIs, meeting with senior and branch management teams, and conducting analysis of their financials and operations.

The course first came together about three years ago. Managing Director Asad Mahmood gave a guest lecture to a group from the Daniels College of Business. Impressed by the quality of the questions posed by the students, Mr. Mahmood welcomed the opportunity to make the school a long-term academic partner. Last year, Forbes Magazine recognized this course as one of the “top 10 most innovative business school classes.” “By taking a group of students with an interest in international business and putting them in a program with a strong focus on social responsibility, there is an opportunity to do some real good,” said Maclyn Clouse, the professor of the course and one of two faculty members who accompanied the students on the due diligence trip.

One look at Jon Schlegel’s (founder and co-owner of Snooze) expansion plans and you’ll agree: Breakfast is big business. After stunning success at the restaurant's first four locations (three in Denver and one in Fort Collins), Schlegel is bringing the spunky eatery to both Boulder and San Diego.

Conventional wisdom suggests that hiring an active equity manager is a fool's errand. I once believed this too, as did many of my academic contemporaries enamored with an elegant yet flawed notion of efficient markets.

Q: I'm in a bit of an awkward situation with my boss who is a high-powered attorney and I'm not sure what to do. For the past few weeks, he has been asking me to do things that are in no way part of my job description, like picking up his kids at camp and then babysitting them at the office until the end of the day or fetching his dry cleaning. I'm pretty sure that things will go back to normal once his wife returns (she's out of town), but in the meantime I feel very uncomfortable playing the part of personal assistant when I was hired as a receptionist.

New York, N.Y.

A: Your boss doesn't quite qualify for a lead role in this summer's Horrible Bosses, but he's clearly taking advantage of you. What's worse: you're letting him.

Stop it!

After a billion hands of poker, University of Denver professor Robert Hannum knows when to hold 'em

There was this casino, a major online operation based in Europe, and this casino had a problem. A little problem, sure, one lousy player on a hot streak. But he was getting to be a bigger problem every day. The player -- call him Ludwig -- was a regular customer at roulette. That is to say, he was a regular loser, since few casino games are quite so elegantly designed to separate chumps from their chips as roulette. But Ludwig wasn't losing so regularly anymore.

After dropping 3,000 euros with his usual low-wager strategy, Ludwig had come back a week later a changed man. Multiple bets per spin, some quite sizable. He was up, he was down, but he kept putting more money in play. He spewed ten, twenty, even fifty bets all over the layout, like a house painter with a spray gun, trying to cover up all those unsightly black and red numbers. At one point, he had 10,000 euros riding on one spin of the wheel. Then 40,000. Then 100,000.

Common sense, or what passes for it in the gamblers' world, dictated that Ludwig should bust -- and bust hard and fast, since many of his bets essentially canceled each other out. But he didn't. He kept coming out ahead. When his winnings crossed the one-million-euro mark (about $1.42 million at current rates), the casino's manager decided to bring in two experts. One was a private investigator, hired to look into Ludwig's background, in search of unsavory associates -- mobsters, say, or computer hackers, or even a confederate inside the virtual casino.

The other was a different kind of gumshoe: Robert Hannum, a professor at the University of Denver. Although his doctoral work leaned heavily toward the theoretical side of statistics, Hannum now carries the title "professor of risk analysis and gaming" -- a tribute to his many years studying the odd collision of mathematics, marketing and fantasy that fuels the commercial gambling industry. Hannum has been the official mathematician in residence for the MGM Grand and the Aria Resort & Casino; other casino operators call on him to run the numbers on tricky new games or review the math behind special betting promotions that, despite the best of intentions, might actually end up costing their casino some money. He is their go-to guy, the probability king, the wizard of odds. more>>

Props from Bloomberg BusinessWeek for the Daniels College of Business at D-U. The magazine has ranked the school as one of the best undergraduate business programs in the country in a number of different categories. What the Dean like about these rankings is that they?re based on a survey of the students. Some of the categories that Daniels at D-U scored well in are ethics, accounting, international business, sustainability and financial management.

DENVER - The U. S. Census Bureau has only been tracking household income since 1967. But in the 2010 Census, the income gap between rich and poor is wider than ever, leaving kids and adults trying to cope with the recession.

Numbers indicate 20 percent of Americans are in the top-earning category; folks making more than $100,000 a year, and they take home 49.4 percent of all income generated in the country. That compares to 3.4% earned by those below the poverty line.

"The people who were wealthy...even if they lost a job or changed a job...if they had some crystal wealth, that kept their income high so that caused the gap to be even wider between the rich and poor," said Dr. Mac Clouse, professor at the University of Denver, Daniels School of Business. "A lot of the lost jobs were lower paying, and so that brings the income levels down."

Daniels Week is our week-long celebration honoring the founding of the original College of Business in 1908. The week featured a variety of activities and events that promote the best of Daniels, including: sustainability, entrepreneurship, innovation and inclusive excellence.

When 2,000 business leaders descend on Denver this week for a conference, some differences from the norm may be apparent. Notable among them: less gray hair. The Young Presidents' Organization holds its annual global leadership conference in Denver from Thursday through Saturday. Membership in the education and idea-sharing group is restricted to chief executives, presidents and other company leaders under age 45. The age orientation adds some special cachet to the event, business analysts say.

"These are young leaders who will become the senior leaders of tomorrow," said University of Denver finance professor Mac Clouse. "When they are in leadership positions under the age of 45, it suggests they have shown some evidence of success and are on the fast track."

Speakers at the conference will encompass a diverse field: former President George W. Bush, pop musician John Legend, genomic scientist J. Craig Venter, anthropologist Elizabeth Lindsey and Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Past returns on mutual funds provide little or no help in choosing the best mutual funds going forward, says Dr. Thomas Howard of the Reiman School of Finance. Yet, despite this, many investors and advisors continue to rely on past performance when making investment decisions.

The Daniels College of Business is known for its commitment to teaching future business leaders about ethics in business, sustainable business practices and values-based leadership. However, ethics is not only at the core of our curriculum, but also embedded deep in our culture. Our shared values within our community promote the upholding of Daniels' and DU's ethical principles and an environment of intellectual integrity.

Over the past year, the Code of Ethics Advisory Board has revised the University of Denver Honor Code. The Board will unveil this new code as part of DU Honor Code Week, January 31 through February 4.

The University of Denver Career Center offered an exciting City Treks event in December, taking 22 top Daniels graduate and undergraduate students to New York City December 2 and 3 and 18 top Daniels graduate and undergraduate students to San Francisco December 6 and 7 for employer site visits.

Each year, the University of Denver recognizes outstanding alumni at the annual Founders Day Gala. These awards are the highest alumni honors bestowed by DU and include the Evans Award, Professional Achievement Award, Distinguished Service to the University Award, Community Service Award, Randolph P. McDonough Award for Service to Alumni and Ammi Hyde Award for Recent Graduate Achievement.

The University of Denver's Daniels College of Business today announced the appointment of Gretchen Gagel as assistant dean of advancement and alumni relations. Ms. Gagel is a '93 graduate of the Daniels MBA program, and most recently comes from the Women's Funding Network in San Francisco where she held the position of chief philanthropic engagement officer.  Prior to that position, she was the president and CEO of The Women's Foundation of Colorado. Her 20-year private industry career included significant leadership positions with FMI Corporation, a Raleigh-based management consulting/investment banking firm focused upon the construction industry, Coca-Cola Bottling Enterprises, and Ralston Purina.

While most people recognize the name of Warren Buffett, few ever have the chance to meet him in the flesh, let alone spend eight hours with him. And yet that was the "opportunity of a lifetime" according to Molly Maxfield and 19 other Daniels MBA students who met at length with the legendary Oracle in Omaha on Friday, October 22.

In October 2010, Daniels' programs ranked in both the Financial Times and the Princeton Review.

The seventh season of the Voices of Experience speaker series began this fall with Colorado Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien in October and Molson Coors CEO Peter Swinburn in November. Couldn't attend in person? Catch up here with recaps of both events.

November 4-6, 2010, 13 students from the Knoebel School of Hospitality Management hosted the second annual DU Vin Festival. A student-planned event, DU Vin (French for "the wine") gives students real-world experience developing and running a sophisticated culinary and wine event.

The University of Denver's Daniels College of Business officially changed the name of its School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management with a celebration on October 19.  Betty Knoebel, the widow of the School's namesake, Denver food services pioneer Ferdinand "Fritz" Knoebel, joined Robinson Dairy Co-CEO Richard Robinson, DU Chancellor Robert Coombe, Daniels Dean Christine Riordan and Knoebel School Director David Corsun for the celebration, with "Knoebel School of Hospitality Management" newly chiseled in stone at the building's entrance.

The University of Denver is pleased to have offered students basic email account services for more than 20 years.  Responding to requests for more advanced email features, the university has evaluated its own service offerings compared to those services readily available online.  Many of our students already forward their @du.edu email off campus. Considering the online alternatives, the costs associated with continuing and improving our current services, and after reviewing what other higher education sites are doing, the university decided to no longer compete with the low-cost and free email services available to students.

On October 11, the Voices of Experience Speaker Series will feature Colorado Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien at the Newman Center for Performing Arts.

Daniels College of Business welcomes Mona Spitz as the new director of alumni relations.

Women in Cable Telecommunications' Tech It Out (TIO) initiative is one-of-a-kind event that provides exceptional opportunities to learn and network in the exhilarating technology field.

How does one think strategically? Manage strategically? Formulate and implement a strategic plan? In Management Professor Vijaya Narapareddy's undergraduate capstone, Business Policy and Strategy, students strive to answer those and many other questions--but not by reading about strategy in a textbook. "All quarter, students learn business strategy by practicing it hands-on," says Dr. Narapareddy. "This is where it all comes together. This class is the 'finale' of the undergraduate experience at Daniels."

Alumna connects high school students with success through Cowboy Ethics.

Meet four Daniels alumni who seek to enhance lives in our own country and around the globe. Their ventures and adventures in business and beyond inspire anyone who has ever dreamed of taking a risk, bettering their community or making a difference.

Daniels Alumni Promote their "Sick Stickz" Ski Poles Across the State and the Country

Accounting Professor Sorenson received the R. Lee Brummet Distinguished Award for Educators, Corey Ciocchetti was awarded tenure and the School of Accountancy will welcome a new director this fall.

At the 2010 Pioneer Award Ceremony held May 18, 2010, nine Daniels students were awarded Outstanding Student and Pioneer Awards.

Alumnus Creates "Wearable Awareness" Through Locally Grown Messages

The Daniels College of Business and the School of Accountancy were recently reaccredited by the AACSB, making Daniels one of just 593 institutions in the world to hold such accreditation.

As marketers, startup organizations must consider the length and complexity of any marketing plan, especially in the early stages of their company's growth. Daniels Marketing Assistant Professor Peter Whalen proposes "hypercycle" marketing planning for new ventures.

"High-trust organizations outperform low-trust organizations by 286 percent on total return to shareholders," said Covey at the final Voices of Experience event of the year. During his tenure, the Covey Leadership Center doubled its revenues, growing its shareholder value from $2.4 million to $160 million in just three years.

In April 2010, two Daniels professors received high honors for their review and research work in their respective industries:

• Daniels Marketing Professor Don Bacon was selected from more than 80 reviewers and named Outstanding Reviewer of the Year for 2009 by the Journal of Marketing Education.
• Daniels Real Estate Professor Glenn Mueller was awarded the Richard Ratcliff Award in recognition of his innovative research on commercial real estate cycles. 

For MBA, MS and undergraduate students, case competitions are about much more than padding the resume--they augment classroom learning, allowing students to apply what they've learned to actual business scenarios. At the Daniels College of Business, there is no shortage of such opportunities, including several signature Daniels events.

Meet the 25 distinguished business leaders spanning industries and the globe who represent the Daniels Executive Advisory Board.

Since completing the Daniels Tomorrow strategic planning process in 2009, the Daniels College of Business focused on raising the required financial support for a number of important initiatives and programs for students, faculty, staff and alumni.

When it comes to learning about advertising, Greg Wagner says there's no better way than engaging students in real-world, hands-on work. "I love doing this kind of thing because students realize what it's really like to work on ad campaigns," says Wagner, internship director and lecturer in the Department of Marketing and a 30-year veteran of advertising agencies D'Arcy and Leo Burnett. In quarters' past, Wagner has invited Nestle-Purina, Altitude Network, Eldora Ski Resort and others to work with students in his undergraduate courses, Advertising Creative Strategy and Introduction to Advertising. In the Winter 2010 quarter, thanks to a connection of Dr. Dan Connolly, associate dean of undergraduate programs, he brought in McDonald's.

Building on an already solid foundation of programs and curriculum focused on sustainability and global business, Daniels strengthens its commitment to globalization with an international outreach effort, a new director of globalization, a new global master's program and more.

On March 4, 2010, Laura Sonderup, managing director of Hispanidad, a Denver Hispanic marketing and ad agency, delivered an insightful presentation to members of Marketing Roundtable on developing effective multicultural marketing campaigns.

With Americans of African, Asian and Hispanic descent comprising 25 percent of the population, Laura Sonderup, managing director of Denver-based Hispanic advertising agency Hispanidad, knows all too well that such populations are not effectively reached by advertising designed for the masses.

Join us as we travel and visit corporations in - Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia. The company visits include presentations by top management and directors in international marketing, finance, human resources and operations.

Daniels' career preparation program, 5 for Fridays, is an opportunity for Denver-area organizations to connect with the College-and for students to attend five short presentations by companies in their area or industry of interest. Upcoming sessions include February 26 (consulting) and March 26 (health care).

Colleen Abdoulah is a cancer survivor, a mother, the CEO of the 11th largest cable operator in the industry-and an entertaining and compelling speaker. On January 15, at the first Voices of Experience event of 2010, Abdoulah spoke to a packed house in Marcus Commons. The topic: "The 'Soft Stuff' that gets Hard-Core, Bottom-Line Results."

Are you a graduate student graduating during the 2009-2010 school year? If so, please complete the Employment Survey on Daniels Careers.

Beth Riley joins the Daniels College of Business as the Manager of Recruiting, Admissions and Student Support in the office of Working Professionals MBA Programs (Institute for Leadership & Organizational Performance).

This fall, 12 students at the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management served up a Daniels specialty: innovative programming, hands-on learning, community and corporate engagement, cross-collaboration and, of course, wine.

This fall, Backpacks to Briefcases, the program designed to help students at the Daniels College of Business make the most of their college experience, launched its inaugural Fantastic Fridays event. The new quarterly speaker series features University of Denver alumni, but attendees can expect something a little more fantastic than a dry lecture. "Fantastic Fridays has a couple of fun twists to it," says Dr. Dan Connolly, Daniels associate dean for undergraduate programs. "We combine fun and education, so events will always involve a social component. It's a great opportunity for students and staff to engage with professionals and one another outside of their normal roles."

To teach a class about innovation requires, well, innovation, says Dr. Shadi Farhangrazi, Daniels adjunct professor. That's why when inviting speakers to her Innovation Design and Execution course this fall, Dr. Farhangrazi didn't limit her choices to executives in the Denver area, or even in the United States. Why not the Geneva, Switzerland-based founder of WISeKey, the leading global provider of security and identity solutions?

Undergraduate seniors: The 2010 BusinessWeek Best Undergraduate Business Program survey ends January 19. Your opinion counts.

He was named one of the "15 People the Next President Should Listen to" in Wired Magazine and one of the "100 People Who Are Changing America" in Rolling Stone. He is the winner of the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, as well as Time Magazine's Best Invention of the Year award.

The impact of the beetle devastation on the national forest system within Colorado has reached a tipping point, threatening the economic vitality of the state as well as Colorado and the entire Western Region.

If you're a Daniels student, or aware of the elite circle of Colorado's more prolific CPAs, then you saw a very familiar face on October's cover of Quick-Search magazine. Ms. Dorothy Joseph, Associate Dean of College Operations at Daniels was featured in the October 2009 issue of the monthly magazine published by the Colorado State Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA).

Last year, the Daniels College of Business undergraduate program barely missed the BusinessWeek rankings because of recruiter response, but the student response was off the charts. We want to continue the momentum begun by last year's graduating class and be recognized as one of the top business programs in the United States by BusinessWeek. This year, we have been invited to participate again.

Beginning October 12, Scot James will advise and assist Daniels students along their career paths as assistant director, relationship management in Suitts.

Over a year's worth of rigorous planning, clever teamwork, and markedly-Daniels ingenuity came to a head August 19 at the 2009 Daniels Management Retreat awards ceremony. In what has been dubbed the Mile High Awards, twenty-five Daniels staff members from two departments were recognized on the steps of Margery Reed Hall for their tremendous work in promoting and developing the Daniels College of Business this past year.