Before Angelina Howard rose to serve as president of Amazon’s Black Employee Network and began helping the company direct its recent $27 million donation to community organizations fighting injustice and supporting members of the Black community, she was a CSU student trying to figure out how to make a difference.
Although many companies view supplier diversity initiatives as investments in corporate social responsibility and not the bottom line, they have a net positive effect on both. New research from the College of Business's Jonathan Zhang demonstrates that by increasing competition, supplier diversity initiatives benefit both diverse small suppliers and the companies they supply, as well as their customers.
Yak-fiber winter wear. Islamic financing to support immigrants and refugees’ businesses. Seaweed feed additives that help cows combat global warming. They’re all in a day’s work for College of Business Global Social Sustainable Enterprise MBA students as they develop business ventures as part of their summer practicum.
Since the beginning of summer, faculty have invested countless hours adapting their courses and innovating novel approaches to teaching to ensure an exceptional learning experience for our students despite a global pandemic.
It was the middle of spring semester and Ramadan Abdunabi’s students were faced with a challenge, their computer lab was closed due to COVID-19. Using the same cloud services that are becoming increasingly vital to remote work and study, Abdunabi created virtual computers so students could easily use their web browsers to operate machines with identical hardware configurations, programs and settings.
This September, the CSU College of Business is launching a suite of new two-day executive education courses that will let professionals at all levels learn the latest business skills on timely topics relevant to every industry.
Professor Kelly D. Martin has been named co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.
College of Business alumna Kathryn Coleman qualified for the Elijah Watt Sells Award by scoring a cumulative average score of 95.5 percent across all four of the Uniform CPA Exam’s sections on her first attempt. Only 0.18 percent of individuals who sat for the exam in 2019 met the requirements for the award.
To support the free Rethink, Reinvent and Recover COVID-19 short-course series, College of Business Dean Beth Walker connected with industry leaders to get a behind-the-scenes look at how they've responded to the crisis, complimenting what our community members are learning in the classroom.
A group of College of Business graduate students are applying what they’ve learned in the classroom to address a critical need in the Fort Collins community.