DePaul University Offering MBA Degree With Real Estate Focus
As the real estate industry rebounds from its bursted bubble a few year back, DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business provides various opportunities for graduate students who want to enter or advance in the field.
“After the real estate slowdown of the last few years, the job market for real estate graduates has improved substantially recently,” Charles Wurtzebach, chairman of the Department of Real Estate at DePaul University, said in an article on the school’s website. “All sectors of commercial real estate appear to be expanding and need new employees to keep up with the expansion. Many of our students have been successful in getting multiple offers at graduation.” Continue reading…
DePaul Names Daryl Koehn New Business Ethics Chair
In a recent article by Robin Florzak on the Kellstadt School of Management’s website, DePaul University recently named a familiar face as Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics. In fact, it was more like a homecoming of sorts for Daryl Koehn.
Koehn had taught philosophy at DePaul from 1991 through 1998 and was the 1997-98 Wicklander Chair back when the post was a rotating, one-year appointment. The Wicklander Chair is now an endowed appointment that is no longer a rotating position. Koehn also will serve as managing director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics (IBPE).
According to the article, one of Koehn’s priorities is to see the IBPE,
“develop expertise in the fast-growing area of benefit corporations, a new legal form for business entities that explicitly permits managers and boards to focus on benefiting a wide array of stakeholders, not just stockholders.”
According to DePaul, the IBPE’s work is supported by the Driehaus College of Business, as well as by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at DePaul Universty. IBPE is led by several of the nation’s leading business ethics scholars and strives to bring the broad knowledge base of academic research to life, helping business leaders resolve a growing number of real-world ethical and compliance challenges.
Koehn, who has authored or edited seven books on subjects that range from global ethics to the nature of evil, added:
“I think that alumni and the business community can provide useful insight into ways that DePaul can help benefit corporations, and also help refine the notion of ‘ethical business culture.’”
Kellstadt Graduate School of Business Releases Career Outlook Survey
According to results of DePaul University’s Class of 2014 career outlook survey and recruiting activity on campus, 86 percent of graduates who received their master’s degree from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business are either employed or enrolled in continuing education. Employment or enrollment in continuing education are considered successful career outcomes, according to National Association of Colleges and Employers, which charts college graduate employment statistics nationwide. Continue reading…
DePaul Names Charles Wurtzebach Real Estate Chair
Charles Wurtzebach has been named as the new chair of the Department of Real Estate and as the Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Endowed Director of the Real Estate Center at DePaul University, according to a news release on the school’s website. Wurtzebach kicked off his three-year dual appointment in July, succeeding Susanne Cannon, the founder of the department and center, who retired earlier this year. Continue reading…
Executives Lend Real World Experience to Kellstadt Classrooms
Because of DePaul University’s dedicated network of alumni and location in Chicago business, students at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business have to ability to work with business executives in the classroom, as covered in this series of stories on the school’s website.
Business leaders’ interactions with students goes beyond guest lectures and networking dinners — they participate in the curriculum and engage students by presenting real-world examples.
Take Mark Hoppe, CEO of MB Financial Bank, and Harry M. Kraemer, former chairman and CEO of Baxter International, for example. Continue reading…
DePaul MBA Cohort Completes Public Service Project for Misericordia
As part of their full-time MBA cohort curriculum, DePaul University students completed a year-long community service project in which they worked with Misericordia, a local nonprofit that provides support and care to individuals with developmental disabilities. The prospective MBA consulted the nonprofit’s operations in four areas: human resources, marketing, and two fundraising ventures. Continue reading…
