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  • Alumna Olivia Homan (BUS '19, MS '20) Documents Paris Olympics

    A young woman looks over her shoulder at an Olympic beach volleyball court
    Driehaus helped her launch her career at the intersection of entertainment, fashion, and sports.

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  • "Pitch Madness" Brings 32 New Businesses, Representing Nine Universities, to Driehaus

    A young woman demonstrates how to escape a wrist grab with help from DePaul's favorite Blue Demon mascot, DIBS
    Driehaus students stood out from the crowd with their commitment to social good. 

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Driehaus Entrepreneurship Ranked Twelfth for 2025

Driehaus Entrepreneurship Ranked Twelfth for 2025

​DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business is ranked 12th among the top schools for entrepreneurship, according to rankings released Tuesday... read more

Marketing Professor's Research Leads to Surprising Conclusion about Political Conversations

Marketing Professor's Research Leads to Surprising Conclusion about Political Conversations

​​​How do you navigate political discussions? You might expect, as many people do, that expressing “two-sided” or ambivalent positions... read more

Information Systems Design, the Internet, and Society: An Interview with Dr. Sulin Ba, Dean of the Driehaus College of Business and Winner of the 2024 INFORMS Award

Information Systems Design, the Internet, and Society: An Interview with Dr. Sulin Ba, Dean of the Driehaus College of Business and Winner of the 2024 INFORMS Award

​​​On Saturday, October 19, Driehaus College of Business Dean Sulin Ba was awarded the 2024 INFORMS Information Systems Society... read more

These companies might be playing a big role in the costs – and savings – of your health care

These companies might be playing a big role in the costs – and savings – of your health care

​​​​​No part of the U.S. health care system could be called simple. But the pharmaceutical supply chain — the way that prescription drugs... read more

Research Spotlight: How Can Algorithms Improve Health Outcomes?

Research Spotlight: How Can Algorithms Improve Health Outcomes?

​Spring 2024 marked the inaugural Driehaus College of Business Research Awards: two awards, given annually, to faculty whose research... read more

Purpose Pitch Competition Fuels Innovation for Social Good

Purpose Pitch Competition Fuels Innovation for Social Good

A self-defense company focused on empowering women that is led by a current DePaul student. A business rooted in the West Side of Chicago... read more

Jennifer Tatara and Ignacio Luri Announced as New Beta Hub Directors

Jennifer Tatara and Ignacio Luri Announced as New Beta Hub Directors

​​​​Ignacio Luri and Jennifer Tatara have been appointed co-directors of the Beta (Business Education in Technology and Analytics) Hub.... read more

DePaul's Halperin Emerging Company Fund Invests in Fast-Growing Snack Bar Startup Mooski

DePaul's Halperin Emerging Company Fund Invests in Fast-Growing Snack Bar Startup Mooski

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​If you know where to look, you'll find evidence of the Halperin Emerging Company Fund across Chicago.On State Street, a... read more

Institute for Housing Studies Awarded $100,000 Grant

Institute for Housing Studies Awarded $100,000 Grant

​​The Institute for Housing Studies (IHS), an applied research center situated in the Real Estate Center at the Driehaus College of... read more

Coleman Center Receives Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award

Coleman Center Receives Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award

​​​​​​​​ The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) has received the Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award.... read more

Research Probes Effectiveness of Personalized Advertising

Research Probes Effectiveness of Personalized Advertising

​​DePaul Assistant Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship Khadija Ali Vakeel​ is a trained computer scientist who uses her... read more

BETA Hub Infuses Tech Into Business Education

BETA Hub Infuses Tech Into Business Education

The Driehaus College of Business opened a new resource center in January, 2023, that is infusing emerging technologies into student... read more

'Want to Know the Profile of a Fraudster? Look in the Mirror.'

'Want to Know the Profile of a Fraudster? Look in the Mirror.'

​​​​​DePaul Accountancy Professor Kelly Richmond Pope, a nationally known expert on fraud, has published a new book on the subject.Professor... read more

Women In Entrepreneurship Institute Celebrates Success

Women In Entrepreneurship Institute Celebrates Success

Women-owned businesses were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, closing nationally at a rate that was much higher than ventures owned by men.... read more

DePaul Launches Executive Education with New Certificates and Customized Learning and Development Programs

DePaul Launches Executive Education with New Certificates and Customized Learning and Development Programs

​​ Executive education has become an increasingly important factor in business success, both for individuals seeking career advancement and... read more

Achievement seekers adjust better to working remotely, DBA student study shows

Achievement seekers adjust better to working remotely, DBA student study shows

Three students in the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program at DePaul – Mona Pearl, Despina Guthrie and Ian Nelson –... read more

Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Accelerator Program Participants Receive Tech Grants Through New Digital Equity Initiative

Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Accelerator Program Participants Receive Tech Grants Through New Digital Equity Initiative

The new Chicago Digital Equity Fund and Tech Desk initiative will help support women-owned businesses launched through... read more

DePaul DBA Research Examines Barriers for Leaders of Color in Higher Education

DePaul DBA Research Examines Barriers for Leaders of Color in Higher Education

When Helen Ezenwa enrolled in the Doctorate in Business Administration program at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, she... read more

Coleman Entrepreneurship Center Co- Hosts Three-Day Summit for Young European Entrepreneurs

Coleman Entrepreneurship Center Co- Hosts Three-Day Summit for Young European Entrepreneurs

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) and partner WorldChicago welcomed 42 young European entrepreneurs to DePaul... read more

Alumni Discuss Benefits of Student Consulting Projects in Latest Issue of Business Exchange

Alumni Discuss Benefits of Student Consulting Projects in Latest Issue of Business Exchange

Check out these stories in the just-issued spring/summer 2022 issue of Business Exchange, the Driehaus College of Business alumni and... read more

Mark Shore Named Executive Director of the Arditti Center for Risk Management

Mark Shore Named Executive Director of the Arditti Center for Risk Management

The Arditti Center for Risk Management was founded in 2006 to honor the late Fred Arditti, an acclaimed economist with the Chicago... read more

Social Impact Incubator Empowers Student, Alumni and Community Entrepreneurs

Social Impact Incubator Empowers Student, Alumni and Community Entrepreneurs

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) is teaching entrepreneurship the DePaul way by uplifting entrepreneurs... read more

Institute for Housing Studies Report Highlights Need to Bridge Wealth Gap

Institute for Housing Studies Report Highlights Need to Bridge Wealth Gap

​ Each year, DePaul’s Institute for Housing Studies releases research that informs housing policy and practice in the Chicago region. Among... read more

Corporate and Academic Thought Leaders Emerge From DePaul DBA

Corporate and Academic Thought Leaders Emerge From DePaul DBA

​​​Since DePaul’s Doctorate in Business Administration program launched at the Driehaus College of Business six years ago, it has... read more

DePaul Entrepreneurship Program Recognized for Excellence in Two Rankings

DePaul Entrepreneurship Program Recognized for Excellence in Two Rankings

DePaul University is among the best places to study entrepreneurship, according to two recent rankings that surveyed hundreds of college... read more

Q&A with William “Marty” Martin, Research and Innovation Leadership Fellow

Q&A with William “Marty” Martin, Research and Innovation Leadership Fellow

Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship William “Marty” Martin joined the first cohort of the Research and Innovation Leadership... read more

New DePaul/YWCA Partnership Empowers Women of Color Entrepreneurs

New DePaul/YWCA Partnership Empowers Women of Color Entrepreneurs

This spring the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute (WEI) at the Driehaus College of Business joined forces with the nonprofit YWCA... read more

Read DePaul Business Exchange: Remembering Richard H. Driehaus; Reimagining the Classroom; Return to Campus

Read DePaul Business Exchange: Remembering Richard H. Driehaus; Reimagining the Classroom; Return to Campus

Check out the latest issue of Business Exchange, the Driehaus College of Business alumni and friends newsletter. The spring-summer... read more

Emergency Room Patients’ Satisfaction Grows When They Are Given Wait Times, DePaul Study Finds

Emergency Room Patients’ Satisfaction Grows When They Are Given Wait Times, DePaul Study Finds

​ Several years ago, DePaul Assistant Professor Sina Ansari rushed to NorthShore Evanston Hospital’s emergency department after tearing... read more

Coleman Entrepreneurship Center Partners with Sunshine Enterprises for Virtual Hackathon Challenge

Coleman Entrepreneurship Center Partners with Sunshine Enterprises for Virtual Hackathon Challenge

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) recently teamed up with community partner Sunshine Enterprises to deliver the bi-annual Hackathon... read more

Study Provides Guidance for Supporting Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Post Pandemic

Study Provides Guidance for Supporting Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Post Pandemic

A well-run small business can help lead the resurgence of a neighborhood and become an anchor for the community. Entrepreneurs may... read more

Business Accelerator Program Grads Offer Advice for Entrepreneurs

Business Accelerator Program Grads Offer Advice for Entrepreneurs

DePaul’s Women in Entrepreneurship Institute (WEI) launched the Business Accelerator Program two years ago, welcoming 11 founders of... read more

 DePaul Sales Program Celebrates 15th Anniversary

DePaul Sales Program Celebrates 15th Anniversary

​ Fifteen years ago, four business faculty members came together at a Chicago Thai restaurant to hatch a plan to teach sales classes to... read more

Students and Alumni Virtually Pitch Their Startups for Cash Prizes

Students and Alumni Virtually Pitch Their Startups for Cash Prizes

​​ The Fourth Annual Purpose Pitch Competition, hosted by the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, took place virtually this year like... read more

DePaul Health Economics Expert  Examines COVID-19’s Impact on Health Care Industry

DePaul Health Economics Expert Examines COVID-19’s Impact on Health Care Industry

​ As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend the economy and drastically impact the lives of millions of Americans, the U.S. health care... read more

COVID-19’s Impact on Small Business: A Q&A with DePaul Entrepreneur Experts

COVID-19’s Impact on Small Business: A Q&A with DePaul Entrepreneur Experts

​​ As the coronavirus pandemic continues to grip the news, shake the economy and affect the way we’re living and working, there’s one... read more

DePaul Receives 8-Figure Gift to Endow Leadership Development Center, Scholarships

DePaul Receives 8-Figure Gift to Endow Leadership Development Center, Scholarships

​​​ DePaul University has received a significant, eight-figure gift from the estate of the late William E. Hay, a DePaul MBA alumnus and... read more

DePaul Management Professor Named Fulbright Scholar

DePaul Management Professor Named Fulbright Scholar

Nezih Altay, a professor of management who teaches operations management at the Driehaus College of Business, has been named a Fulbright... read more

Student Creativity Gets the Spotlight at 10th Annual Innovation Expo

Student Creativity Gets the Spotlight at 10th Annual Innovation Expo

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center in the Driehaus College of Business hosted its 10th Annual Innovation Expo... read more

Ethical Leadership and Civility Can Deter Retail Shrinkage, DePaul Research Finds

Ethical Leadership and Civility Can Deter Retail Shrinkage, DePaul Research Finds

​​​​​Intense competition leads employers – such as retailers – to set high expectations for employee performance outcomes. “For some... read more

Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Welcomes Second Business Accelerator Cohort

Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Welcomes Second Business Accelerator Cohort

The Women in Entrepreneurship Institute at DePaul welcomed seven women founders to its Business Accelerator Program on... read more

Private Labels Benefit from Social Media Exposure with National Brands, DePaul Researcher Finds

Private Labels Benefit from Social Media Exposure with National Brands, DePaul Researcher Finds

Fashion marketing is at its height this time of year as retailers eagerly prepare for Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year.... read more

Research Examines Automation and Low-Wage Jobs

Research Examines Automation and Low-Wage Jobs

​​​ Associate Professor of Economics Brian Phelan's research, which was published by the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago,... read more

DePaul’s Actuarial Summer Academy Introduces Diverse Talent to Actuarial Industry

DePaul’s Actuarial Summer Academy Introduces Diverse Talent to Actuarial Industry

For most high school students, being an actuary may not appear to be their dream job, but DePaul’s Actuarial Summer Academy is hoping to... read more

DePaul Alumni and Students Pitch Startups at Purpose Pitch Competition

DePaul Alumni and Students Pitch Startups at Purpose Pitch Competition

Six DePaul alumni and students pitched their purpose-driven businesses at the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center’s... read more

Ask a Professor: DePaul Economist Discusses Key Brexit Issues

Ask a Professor: DePaul Economist Discusses Key Brexit Issues

For more than three decades DePaul University Professor Thomas Mondschean has taught students the fundamentals of economics and how they... read more

A Q&A with the new Director of Women in Entrepreneurship Institute

A Q&A with the new Director of Women in Entrepreneurship Institute

​ Abigail Ingram (MA ’15, JD ’18), assistant director at the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, has been named the director of the Women... read more

DePaul MBA Students Gain Skills for Job Interviews, Networking and More

DePaul MBA Students Gain Skills for Job Interviews, Networking and More

​ DePaul University MBA students learned about a different kind of ROI – how to turn their business education investment into career... read more

DePaul Business Student Launches Nonprofit for Gold Star Families

DePaul Business Student Launches Nonprofit for Gold Star Families

When retired Marine and undergraduate business student Charlie Jones tried to write a letter to the son of a colleague who was killed while... read more

John L. Keeley Jr. Center for Financial Services Founded

John L. Keeley Jr. Center for Financial Services Founded

DePaul University finance students will benefit from innovative academic and co-curricular programming at the newly named John L. Keeley... read more

New Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Launches at DePaul

New Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Launches at DePaul

​​The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University is launching the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute, the nation’s first... read more

Nicholas J. Thomas Named School of Hospitality Leadership Director

Nicholas J. Thomas Named School of Hospitality Leadership Director

Nick Thomas has been promoted to director of the School of Hospitality Leadership. Nicholas J. Thomas, interim associate director... read more

Scholar Studies Weight-Based Bullying at Work

Scholar Studies Weight-Based Bullying at Work

Fat shaming by bullies doesn’t just happen in the school yard – it’s a growing problem in the workplace, too. How this form of... read more

Coleman Center Hosts Diversity Symposium

Coleman Center Hosts Diversity Symposium

More than 350 people attended the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center’s symposium “Diverse Entrepreneurs: Changing... read more

Housing Institute Director Forecasts Chicago Real Estate in 2018

Housing Institute Director Forecasts Chicago Real Estate in 2018

Will the 2018 local real estate market be like January in Chicago—frigid? Or will it be like a Chicago summer—hot and steamy? We... read more

DePaul Students Develop Businesses through Accelerator Program

DePaul Students Develop Businesses through Accelerator Program

Nineteen DePaul University students will spend the next four months developing businesses during a startup launch program hosted by the... read more

Mark Frigo Named Ezerski Chair

Mark Frigo Named Ezerski Chair

Since joining DePaul University more than 30 years ago, Accountancy Professor Mark L. Frigo has taught thousands of students how to create... read more

Branding Days Connect Students to Hospitality Employers

Branding Days Connect Students to Hospitality Employers

Eileen Williamson (BUS ’04) represented Breakthru Beverage Group during Branding Day. Business students interested in entering... read more

Faculty Research: Study Finds Technology May Fulfill Social Needs

Faculty Research: Study Finds Technology May Fulfill Social Needs

Science fiction is full of stories about robots that become so lifelike that people can’t tell they’re not human. As our digital products... read more

Professor-Author Bruce Newman Looks at State of Political Marketing

Professor-Author Bruce Newman Looks at State of Political Marketing

DePaul University Marketing Professor Bruce Newman is one of the world's leading experts on political marketing. He has published... read more

Can Black Monday Happen Again?

Can Black Monday Happen Again?

Assistant Professor of Finance Lamont BlackLast week marked the 30-year anniversary of Black Monday, a notorious day in... read more

Award Competition Sparks Student Innovations

Award Competition Sparks Student Innovations

Alyssa Nagy noticed a need in the marketplace when her grandmother, Clara, became sick with pneumonia and required nursing services at... read more

Hospitality School Receives $1.8 Million Grant From Marriott Foundation For Student Development Center

Hospitality School Receives $1.8 Million Grant From Marriott Foundation For Student Development Center

A new $1.8 million grant from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation will be used to help establish The J. Willard and Alice S.... read more

Familiar Face Leads Coleman Entrepreneurship Center

Familiar Face Leads Coleman Entrepreneurship Center

Bruce Leech likes to joke that he started his own business after getting his MBA because the job market was tough back then. It was the... read more

Entrepreneurship is at Home at DePaul

Entrepreneurship is at Home at DePaul

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) has fostered innovation at DePaul and among the Chicago business community since it began in... read more

Innovation Awardees Meet Real-World Challenges

Innovation Awardees Meet Real-World Challenges

The sixth annual DePaul University Student Innovation Awards were held Feb. 11 to reward students for proposing creative solutions to... read more

Management Professor Teaches Human Side of Supply Chain Logistics

Management Professor Teaches Human Side of Supply Chain Logistics

​In August of 1999, Nezih Altay had everything he wanted. He was in Istanbul, about to marry the woman of his dreams. He was getting his PhD... read more

Finance Centers Celebrate 10 Years of Education, Partnerships and Research

Finance Centers Celebrate 10 Years of Education, Partnerships and Research

In 2013, the Center for Financial Services (CFS) at DePaul University hosted Sheila Bair, fresh from her stint as chair of the Federal... read more

Business Ethics Chair Named

Business Ethics Chair Named

Daryl Koehn's appointment as the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics this past July marks a DePaul University homecoming for the... read more

Charles Wurtzebach Named Real Estate Chair

Charles Wurtzebach Named Real Estate Chair

It was a trip to the library in the mid-1970s that led Charlie Wurtzebach (BUS '71) to his future career. Then a PhD candidate in... read more

Launch DePaul Bolsters Student Businesses

Launch DePaul Bolsters Student Businesses

​ Peikang Hu spent more than three years in his hometown of Beijing learning English. Soon after arriving in the United States and... read more

Virtual Trading Room Offers Real-World Advantage

Virtual Trading Room Offers Real-World Advantage

The statement from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in January had barely been made public before DePaul University finance... read more

DePaul Alumni Lectures Enhance MBA Lessons

DePaul Alumni Lectures Enhance MBA Lessons

A recent Wall Street Journal article informed the world of something DePaul University MBA candidate Ryan Lombard already knew. The... read more

Award-Winning Professor Makes a Difference

Award-Winning Professor Makes a Difference

What motivates Molly Mercer to teach and conduct research at DePaul? "Making a difference in someone's life," the associate... read more

Business Partners Enrich Sales Program

Business Partners Enrich Sales Program

DePaul University's Sales Leadership Program crafts its curriculum to unite the interests of businesses and students, allowing both... read more

Arditti Center Names Executive Director

Arditti Center Names Executive Director

Thomas Edwalds, an actuary with 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, has been named the executive director of the Arditti... read more

3D Printer To Turn Student Ideas Into Reality

3D Printer To Turn Student Ideas Into Reality

French artist Henri Matisse once said, "Drawing is putting a line 'round an idea." Now DePaul students can go beyond just... read more