Daniels BUSINESS

2020 ISSUE

The Future is Here

Articles

Seeing in Color

Seeing in Color

Are you an INTJ or an ENFP? Are you the Achiever or the Challenger? Or, are you made up of four main colors—fiery red, sunshine yellow, cool blue and earth green?  When it comes to personality assessments, there’s the Strengths Finder, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,...

Leadership Reimagined

Leadership Reimagined

Prevailing ideas about successful leaders used to focus on intrinsic characteristics. You were either born a confident, hard-charging outlier or you weren’t.  Today, business educators understand that leadership can be learned. Companies also recognize that diverse...

Vivek’s Vision

Vivek’s Vision

Vivek Choudhury joined the University of Denver as Daniels’ 17th dean Aug. 1, 2019. His passion for innovation and impacting students is the foundation of his vision for the College.  “Under Vivek’s leadership, we believe Daniels will become even stronger and better...

Designing Your Life

Designing Your Life

College and university career advising offices—charged with preparing students to enter an ever-evolving work world—must continually adapt to stay relevant. And up until recently, that hasn’t happened, said Bob Kumagai, executive director of Career Services at Daniels...

Developing Denver

Developing Denver

The year is 2040 and you’re on I-25 near the University Boulevard exit. Screeeech. Hit the brakes. Are you driving? Probably not. Sure, you are in a car, but it may well be driverless. And that single innovation stands to change much more than just bad driving in...

Fishy Business

Fishy Business

As you pass the vibrant front desk, friendly staff greet you by name and present a small toy to your child. It’s a fish named Bubbles and it’s “wearing” seasonal attire. You saunter past the palm trees and continue to the waterfront, soaking up the humidity on your...

Answering His Calling

Answering His Calling

Raised in Puerto Rico, Serrano (MBA 2011) started working third shift in the TeleTech call center in Aurora, Colorado, to support himself while he pursued his associate’s degree. He made the most of his college job by learning different functions of the work through...

Inclusive, Outdoors

Inclusive, Outdoors

The tingling started in Alison Kessler’s feet, almost like they were falling asleep. Then her legs would lose sensation. Then her arms. Before long, Kessler (MBA 2015) was in the intensive care unit. “It’s really hard feeling like your body is betraying you,” said...

Revolutionizing Polling Through Data

Revolutionizing Polling Through Data

White (MSBA 2019) launched UnumAI while pursuing a Master’s in Business Analytics at Daniels. With an undergraduate degree in political science from Washington and Lee, White had been working in analytics, first at Deloitte in consolidated purchasing for the...

Driving Supply Chain Insights

Driving Supply Chain Insights

“The problem isn’t simply plastic, it’s how you balance the environment, economic impacts, decisions to consume or not consume, and inequity of damages from one country to another,” Buffington said. “It spans material science, public policy, environmental policy and...

Business Divided

Business Divided

If you’re a current or former chief executive officer with a history of personal misconduct, chances are Daniels’ new assistant professor of management Michael Nalick has seen your record. For his research, Nalick combed through 20 years of media articles for stories...