Daniels BUSINESS

2021 ISSUE

Now What?
How the Covid19 Pandemic Has Changed Business and What Comes Next

Articles

Rethinking Professional Development

Rethinking Professional Development

Professional development is typically considered in the post-graduate career context. Discerning employers offer professional development programs to strengthen or sow new employee skill sets. They’re also a powerful recruiting asset that points to a robust,...

NOW WHAT?

NOW WHAT?

Innovations in the way people communicate and interact came quickly and forcibly in 2020. With lockdowns and health and safety top of mind during the COVID-19 pandemic, gone were in-person gatherings and crowded offices—literally overnight, in many cases. In their...

Pivoting Entrepreneurship at DU

Pivoting Entrepreneurship at DU

In 2019, the Daniels Business magazine reported on Daniels’ Entrepreneurship Department in “The Power of the Pivot.” Things are, well, different since then. Bigger. Better. As entrepreneurial ventures ought to, the department has grown and adapted with time,...

Introducing the NEW VOE Podcast

Introducing the NEW VOE Podcast

An extension of Voices of Experience, Daniels’ signature live speaker series, the Podcast unpacks topics at the intersection of business and the public good with CEOs and other business leaders. Like, follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Listen Here

For the Love of Resilience

For the Love of Resilience

Cappel, like the rest of the world, had no idea that COVID-19 was ready to strike, halting travel and immobilizing the company she’d forged shortly after graduating from Daniels. She also had no idea that the global pandemic would inspire her next great idea: a modern...

Jim Griesemer

Jim Griesemer

When Jim Griesemer arrived at DU in 1990, the University was experiencing a financial freefall. Colorado’s economy was in a downturn, and the University’s enrollment was falling. As the chief financial officer, he approached that crisis head-on. “There was a million...

Gary Farmar

Gary Farmar

First, Gary Farmar (BSBA 1975, MBA 1982) discovered oil. Then gold. Likely his richest discovery as a metaphorical prospector, however, is the student body at Daniels’ Reiman School of Finance, from which he retired as teaching associate professor in June 2021. After...

Greg Wagner

Greg Wagner

For the past 14 years, Teaching Associate Professor of advertising Greg Wagner leveraged connections from 35 years of working at high-profile advertising agencies to give students job and internship opportunities and the chance to present to big-name, real-world...

John Holcomb

John Holcomb

In September 1989, Holcomb was one year into teaching at Rutgers University when he left to join DU’s college of business—before it was the Daniels College of Business. It was the beginning of a 32-year academic career at DU. Holcomb, who’ll retire Dec. 31, 2021, said...

Jeff Bowen

Jeff Bowen

Jeff Bowen attributes many of his career accomplishments to coincidence. But the Daniels Department of Management teaching associate professor—who retired in June—has achieved too much to write off as just good luck. As the aphorism attributed to Thomas Jefferson...

Jane Morton

Jane Morton

Early in her career, Morton worked as an accounts payable clerk for a construction company in Tucson, Arizona. She then enrolled at the University of Arizona, where she earned her bachelor’s in accounting and finance and went straight into a doctoral program. Morton...