Deming Center News & Stories

CU-Boulder as startup incubator? You can take that to the bank. Six student entrepreneur teams are vying for a shot to advance to the national New Venture Challenge. But first they’ve got to get past an all-star investor panel. A record 60 teams entered the campus competition last fall with...

It's interesting to see how the different departments at CU work together. Larry interviewed Paul Jerde who has been with the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship for 15+ years, and he says he was pretty naive. "I had come to have some strong ideas about the positioning of the value of...

Third Annual Conscious Capitalism Conference at CU-Boulder Business leaders speak to college students about corporate social responsibility and how the traditional tools of capitalism can serve social needs February 29, 2012, BOULDER, Colo. --- Ushering in a new era of corporate responsibility, business entrepreneurs are challenging college students to develop...

BOULDER, Colo. — Today’s installment of “Secrets of Success” is about a young woman who came to Boulder to go to CU, but eventually made the university the first of many of her clients. Sarah Schupp was thinking about going into the corporate world, but in her junior year she...

Perry Evans is the founder & CEO of Closely, Inc. a Colorado-based start-up focused on reinventing small business promotion marketing for today’s live, mobile social world. Perry has led the formation and development of several local media and technology businesses over the past 15 years, including MapQuest, Jabber and Local...

The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder is offering free tax help to taxpayers who qualify. VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) is an IRS-sponsored program that provides free tax return preparation services to low and moderate income taxpayers (generally $50,000 and below). This is the third...

Accomplished business executive brings passion, experience and personal connection to the mission DENVER, Colo. – The March of Dimes today announced it has appointed Kathryn Marshall as its new state director for Colorado. Marshall (a longtime Boulder resident and University of Colorado alum) most recently served as the chair of...

SOME DATING WEBSITES DO NOT REMOVE GPS DATA FROM PHOTOS,CU-BOULDER STUDENTS FIND While the majority of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their users, a class research project at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business found that 21 of 90 dating websites...

According to Associate Professor Kai Larsen, when this information is not removed by the dating website, it is very easy to access that information using commonly available tools. "I think you go to these online sites with a sense of anonymity where you don't want people to know where you...

Once you make ethics and social impact considerations part of how every aspect of business is done, you need to show and practice how all the pieces fit together. Create interactions with corporate executives in which multiple business disciplines plus ethics all come together in one messy ball—because that’s what...