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Depaul's Academic All-Stars Nov 2020

Depaul's Academic All-Stars

DePaul Magazine

Profiles of four faculty all-stars at DePaul University: Associate Professor Kelly Richmond Pope, a forensic accountant who has made several films capturing accounting fraud, including "All the Queen's Horses"; Research Professor of Law Patty Gerstenblith, who founded DePaul's Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law and concerns herself with the problem of cultural heritage looting; psychology professors W. LaVome Robinson and Leonard Jason, who created the Success Over Stress Violence Prevention Program for youth exposed to violence; and Nezih Altay, a professor of operations management, who conducts research on humanitarian supply chain management.


Note From The Dean: Making This A Year We Can Be Proud Of Nov 2020

Note From The Dean: Making This A Year We Can Be Proud Of

Business Exchange

Interim Dean Thomas Donley discusses teaching and remote business school activities during the pandemic, diversity and inclusion efforts and the universitywide fundraising effort, Now We Must: The Campaign for DePaul's Students.


Briefs Nov 2020

Briefs

Business Exchange

Business College Refreshes Curricula; College Recognized in Rankings; Generous Gifts Support Scholarships and Fellowships; Academic Departments Merge


Building Career Resilience Nov 2020

Building Career Resilience

Business Exchange

This article discusses how DePaul business school students and alumni can make use of internships, mentorships, networking and other resources to build their skills and land jobs in their chosen areas of study.


Professional Development: Food Bank Executive Offers Crisis Leadership Advice Nov 2020

Professional Development: Food Bank Executive Offers Crisis Leadership Advice

Business Exchange

Sheila Creghin, vice president of operations at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, offers advice for crisis leadership, which she put into action during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.


Business Exchange: Fall 2020, Full Issue Nov 2020

Business Exchange: Fall 2020, Full Issue

Business Exchange

The complete Fall 2020 Business Exchange issue.


Scholarly Pursuits: Nationally Recognized Health Expert Tony Losasso Returns To Depaul Nov 2020

Scholarly Pursuits: Nationally Recognized Health Expert Tony Losasso Returns To Depaul

Business Exchange

DePaul business school alumnus Tony LoSasso returned to his alma mater to launch a DePaul MBA concentration in health care markets and analytics. He is nationally recognized expert in health economics, LoSasso teaches graduate and undergraduate health economics courses. His award-winning research spans several dimensions of health and labor economics, health policy and health services.


Alumna Profile: Political Pioneer Bushra Amiwala Reclaims Her Voice Nov 2020

Alumna Profile: Political Pioneer Bushra Amiwala Reclaims Her Voice

Business Exchange

Business school alumna Bushra Amiwala, a Pakistani Muslim, may have lost her 2018 primary election to the Illinois' Cook County Board of Commissioners, but she won her 2019 bid to be seating on the Skokie (Ill.) Board of Education. She is the youngest Muslim elected official in the country and part of a growing trend of elected women of color that includes Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.


Alumna Leads Launch Of Innovative New Bank May 2020

Alumna Leads Launch Of Innovative New Bank

Business Exchange

Marianne Markowitz (MBA ’92) is leading the launch of Illinois’ first new commercial bank in a dozen years. Called First Women’s Bank, the innovative, Chicago-based institution will serve small and midsize businesses and individual depositors, with a focus on women’s banking needs. Markowitz brings experience as the former Midwest regional director of the Small Business Administration to her role as bank CEO. In this interview, she shares why she is passionate about this groundbreaking bank startup, which is scheduled to open this year.


Faculty Focus: Professor Lauded For Humanitarian Supply Chain Research May 2020

Faculty Focus: Professor Lauded For Humanitarian Supply Chain Research

Business Exchange

Professor of Management Nezih Altay credits an earthquake in his native Turkey as a game-changing event that led him to learn more about the supply chain of disaster management. Today, Altay is lauded for being one of the first U.S. academics to recognize the importance of applying supply chain theory and research to disaster relief. He was named a Fulbright Scholar and researhed the logistics of aid delivery in conflict zones for six months the visiting Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland.


Notes From The Dean: Leadership In Changing Times May 2020

Notes From The Dean: Leadership In Changing Times

Business Exchange

Dean Misty Johanson announces her decision to step down as dean of the Driehaus College of Business and return to the college's School of Hospitality Leadership. She acknowledges the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, reviews the strategic plan the college produced, marks major accomplishments of the college and reviews some of the content in the current issue.


Scholarly Pursuits: Marketing Case Workshop Celebrates 25 Years May 2020

Scholarly Pursuits: Marketing Case Workshop Celebrates 25 Years

Business Exchange

Business case studies bring contemporary business issues to life for students. DePaul's Jacobs & Clevenger Case Writers’ Workshop, has been helping to hone the skills of future marketing professionals for 25 years through a business conference, case-writing workshop, and publication of select cases. The exercise helps students connect theory to practice and provide a useful framework developing marketing strategies at work.


Professional Development: A Leadership Guide For Working Parents May 2020

Professional Development: A Leadership Guide For Working Parents

Business Exchange

Alyssa Westring, associate professor of management at DePaul, researches work-life balance. She has published a new book, "Parents Who Lead" that gives advice to parents who want to achieve career success while having an active, fulfilling personal life. This article discusses how she chose this path of research and provides some practical advice for working parents.


College News May 2020

College News

Business Exchange

Thomas Donley Appointed Business College Interim Dean; Coming Soon: Revised MBA, New Graduate Degrees; In Memoriam: Robert O'Keefe


Giving Back: Donald M. Ephraim (Bus ’52) Supports And Inspires Student Achievement May 2020

Giving Back: Donald M. Ephraim (Bus ’52) Supports And Inspires Student Achievement

Business Exchange

Alumnus Donald M. Ephraim, a successful talent agent and lawyer, gives back to DePaul through the Donald M. Ephraim Family Endowed Excellence Award, which provide a monetary prize for the highest-achieving DePaul business students at the end of their junior year.


Student Internships Open Doors To Alumni Career Success May 2020

Student Internships Open Doors To Alumni Career Success

Business Exchange

An internship experience remains the most effective tool for career exploration, preparation and success. The ultimate goal: ensure students are equipped with the hands-on professional experiences they need to immediately contribute to and succeed in the workforce. This article explores the effectiveness of internship opportunities in positively affected career success in the hospital industry, accountancy, and marketing, as well as benefits to mentors.


From Steel Mill To State Department Feb 2020

From Steel Mill To State Department

DePaul Magazine

Ambassador Carmen Lomellin (MBA '84) is a proud advocate for women, children and immigrants. After getting her MBA while working at Inland Steel in Chicago, she worked in a variety of capacities for the City of Chicago. She stumped for Hillary Clinton in her bid for the U.S. presidency and represented the United States under President Barack Obama as ambassador Organization of American States. She worked with scholars at DePaul to publish "In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas." She now runs a successful consultancy.


The Case For A Tri-Continuum Of Entrepreneurial Behavior, Gilpatrick Hornsby Jan 2020

The Case For A Tri-Continuum Of Entrepreneurial Behavior, Gilpatrick Hornsby

ICHRIE Research Reports

Entrepreneurship is the foundation of the hospitality industry. the study of entrepreneurship has yield three main types of entrepreneurship: a traditional entrepreneur, a lifestyle entrepreneur, and a social entrepreneur. This research sought to determine if these types of entrepreneurs are really as siloed as presented or if there is a gray area between them. No one person was solely one type of entrepreneur (traditional, social, or lifestyle). We present the cases of entrepreneurs existing on a continuum: A lifestyle-traditional entrepreneur, a traditional-social entrepreneur, and a social-lifestyle entrepreneur. If classified by also the prevalence of one typology over another, it is …


Do All Angry Customers Complain?, Hyounae (Kelly) Min, Hyun Jeong Kim Jan 2020

Do All Angry Customers Complain?, Hyounae (Kelly) Min, Hyun Jeong Kim

ICHRIE Research Reports

Customer complaints can shed light on organizations’ key performance practices, providing useful information for organizations to learn from their mistakes Since customer complaints should be regarded as a learning opportunity, it is important to identify what drives customer complaints. Through experimental designs using a failed service in the restaurant, we investigated whether all angry customers complain to the service provider and if not, what prevents them from raising their voice. Results showed that customers who felt powerful complained about a service failure as soon as they were angry; on the other hand, customers who felt powerless were not comfortable making …


Not All Job Stressors Are Harmful: The Role Of Employees’ Psychological Capital, Hyounae (Kelly) Min, Hyun Jeong Kim Jan 2020

Not All Job Stressors Are Harmful: The Role Of Employees’ Psychological Capital, Hyounae (Kelly) Min, Hyun Jeong Kim

ICHRIE Research Reports

Human resources are an important asset for the hospitality industry; however, long working hours, low pay, and demanding customers are known to increase hospitality employees’ job stress. Work stress contributes to a high turnover rate in the hospitality industry; thus, it is critical for hospitality practitioners to understand work-related stressors and aid employees in coping with their stress. Challenge stressors can be viewed as beneficial to employees, while hindrance stressors tend to bring little benefit to employees. Through a survey of 232 hotel employees, we examined the role of psychological capital in the association between job stressors and employee burnout …