The CU Denver Business School works hard to build an ethical foundation for our students by integrating robust ethics education into our entire curriculum and through diverse opportunities for students to explore ethical challenges in relevant, thoughtful, and impactful ways.
Our graduates are prepared to enter the workforce with a strong sense of ethical responsibility and the tools needed to fill their lives and careers with integrity, honesty, and accountability.
Student Opportunities
The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program offers many diverse opportunities for students to learn and apply ethics to their lives and future careers. Taking advantage these opportunities will help students build an impressive resume, express important values to future employers, and develop the tools needed to build lifelong personal and professional integrity.
Ethics OnSite
Ethics OnSite sends students to companies around the U.S. to learn how they handle ethical issues. In April 2023, students spent time with high-level executives exploring ethical challenges and opportunities at TIAA headquarters in New York City. Read More.
Stay tuned for Fall 2023 opportunities!
Contact Gisella Bassani to learn more about future opportunities.
Ethical Leader of the Year
Every year, a team of Business School students evaluates a pool of nominees from the community and selects a local leader demonstrating remarkable integrity and business ethics. The 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year is Stephen Goldberg. Read the announcement here.
Watch the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award Tribute Video here.
Contact Gisella Bassani to get involved.
See past award winners here.
Case Competition
Congratulations to the 2023 Graduate Team for placing 3rd overall at the eleventh annual Case Competition!
The Collegiate Program Case Competition exposes students to a thought provoking business ethics case similar to a situation they might face in their professional careers. Held annually in spring, student teams compete with teams from other Collegiate Program schools to analyze, present, and respond to questions posed by a panel of judges.
Ethics Forum
Select students are invited to the annual Collegiate Program Forum to gain a broader perspective on ethics in business and engage with ethically-minded business leaders who are active employers in the community.
Student Center for the Public Trust
Make valuable business connections and develop life-long ethical leadership skills by joining our local student chapter of the NASBA Center for the Public Trust.
Ethical Leadership Certificate
Learn how to identify ethical issues, respond to ethical dilemmas, and enhance ethical decision-making abilities with an ethical leadership certification. The Collegiate Program may be able to help share the cost.
Spring 2023 Ethics Fellows
About the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program
Bill Daniels was a born entrepreneur, widely considered one of the great business visionaries of the twentieth century. Bill achieved phenomenal success by working hard, passionately following his instincts, acting with ethics and integrity, and treating everyone around him with respect and fairness. His word was known to be as solid as any contract. His brilliance in business was matched by his sincere compassion for people and the desire to help those in need. In many ways, Bill Daniels truly was, "larger than life".
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Bill Daniels: A man of compassion, ethics, and integrity
Bill Daniels believed integrity and unwavering ethical behavior provide "the ultimate business advantage".
