Challenge Host Partner Brochure

HOW THIS WILL HELP YOUR ORGANIZATION The Denver MBA is designed to enhance the skills and acumen of students who have gained experience in real-world environments and to prepare them to make an immediate impact on your organization. Our students are required to perform at a consistently high level, developing critical knowledge and leadership skills through a continuous loop of real-world experience and feedback from business professionals.

The challenge-driven project work will not only provide your organization with a source of innovative ideas and strategies, but also with a direct connection to future leaders who have both the hard and soft skills necessary to thrive in today’s work environment. By engaging with these students every week, you will have the opportunity to see firsthand the type of results a Denver MBA student can deliver for your organization.

THE

DENVER MBA

THE STUDENTS WHO WILL BE COMPLETING THE PROJECTS Denver MBA students are transformational thinkers who typically have three-to-five years of work experience and have been exposed to a broad curriculum focused on general business expertise and repeated project work. During their time in the Denver MBA, students will explore the fundamentals of business including marketing, management, accounting and finance. They will also participate in approximately five months of leadership training, undergo repeated 360° performance reviews and have a deep knowledge of building high efficiency teams.

"This process has had a very positive effect on my career search, opening me up to companies and industries which I never would have considered. Before I started my work with Newmont Mining, I would have never imagined that a mining company would be setting the bar for other corporations on issues like Corporate Social Responsibility.

It's amazing how this type of direct exposure to companies outside of your consideration set can alter your perspective and your career path. I’ve learned you should never judge a book by its cover, or in other words, a company by its industry."

— Paige Conklin, MBA Candidate ‘17

“AT&T has been partnering with Daniels on corporate projects since 2013—we continue the practice based on the overall value it brings to the company. The students, faculty and staff bring a fresh perspective to the communications marketplace and we always walk away with a new outlook, strategy or approach to addressing our real-world opportunities. As an innovation company, it’s great to collaborate with a young, vibrant and energetic community of students who challenge the status quo and require our leaders to see a problem through a different lens. We always come away better informed and positioned to win.

It’s important to understand that AT&T is not built on our products, technology or network—we are built around and are ultimately only successful because of our people.

The corporate projects allow AT&T to work closely with the next generation talent pool and they are a great way to bring future employees and leaders into the AT&T family.”

— Michael Kirk, Director of Global Internet of Things Development, AT&T

WE LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH YOU AS WE REINVENT THE TRADITIONAL MBA. YOUR SUPPORT IS THE KEY TO DEVELOPING STUDENTS WITH THE EXPERIENCE TO CHANGE THE GAME FOR ORGANIZATIONS LIKE YOURS. @DANIELSATDU | #DENVERMBA | DANIELS.DU.EDU/CHALLENGE | 303.871.2444

RIGOR RELEVANCE RESULTS

A GAME-CHANGER

I N M A N A G E M E N T E D U C AT I O N The Daniels Difference is a continuous performance-based platform, which includes challenge-driven education, designed to develop MBA students who are able to solve problems, persevere through adversity and deal with ambiguity. Our Denver MBA students face challenges in the field every day, working cooperatively within cohorts and developing professional competencies that will allow them to hit the ground running in any business environment—with the thread of leadership and professional development maintained throughout the program.

The program is comprised of FOUR CORE CHALLENGES: The Enterprise Challenge aligns the academic ENTERPRISE fundamentals of building a company with the hands-on CHALLENGE experience of creating and launching a start-up business. The lessons are far-reaching. Students will develop an understanding of the components involved in building a business from ideation to execution, with continual input from local entrepreneurs. During the course of the ten-week quarter, students will incorporate their business, put together an advisory board, identify customers, write an executive business summary, and execute a professional business presentation.

The Social Good Challenge is designed for students to work directly with a nonprofit SOCIAL GOOD organization, applying business tools and techniques. Students learn firsthand how to CHALLENGE use business skills within this unique, challenging and resource- constrained environment to create a novel response to a social problem that is more effective, efficient and sustainable.

The Corporate Challenge provides the opportunity to take classroom learnings and practice them in a real-world context. Students will work with companies on a challenging business CORPORATE issue, developing the key capabilities necessary to succeed in complex environments. Students will leverage the content from accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics, CHALLENGE globalization and business statistics and analysis in order to engage with corporate partners to examine real-world problems and provide actionable results and recommendations.

The Global Challenge integrates what students have learned over the course of the first three challenges, providing an opportunity for students to balance cultural and business concerns while tackling a major issue for an organization.

The first ten weeks are spent working on campus, followed by a working trip to a global destination. For the final ten weeks, students are back on campus finalizing the project.

GLOBAL CHALLENGE

A GAME-CHANGER

I N M A N A G E M E N T E D U C AT I O N The Daniels Difference is a continuous performance-based platform, which includes challenge-driven education, designed to develop MBA students who are able to solve problems, persevere through adversity and deal with ambiguity. Our Denver MBA students face challenges in the field every day, working cooperatively within cohorts and developing professional competencies that will allow them to hit the ground running in any business environment—with the thread of leadership and professional development maintained throughout the program.

The program is comprised of FOUR CORE CHALLENGES: The Enterprise Challenge aligns the academic ENTERPRISE fundamentals of building a company with the hands-on CHALLENGE experience of creating and launching a start-up business. The lessons are far-reaching. Students will develop an understanding of the components involved in building a business from ideation to execution, with continual input from local entrepreneurs. During the course of the ten-week quarter, students will incorporate their business, put together an advisory board, identify customers, write an executive business summary, and execute a professional business presentation.

The Social Good Challenge is designed for students to work directly with a nonprofit SOCIAL GOOD organization, applying business tools and techniques. Students learn firsthand how to CHALLENGE use business skills within this unique, challenging and resource- constrained environment to create a novel response to a social problem that is more effective, efficient and sustainable.

The Corporate Challenge provides the opportunity to take classroom learnings and practice them in a real-world context. Students will work with companies on a challenging business CORPORATE issue, developing the key capabilities necessary to succeed in complex environments. Students will leverage the content from accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics, CHALLENGE globalization and business statistics and analysis in order to engage with corporate partners to examine real-world problems and provide actionable results and recommendations.

The Global Challenge integrates what students have learned over the course of the first three challenges, providing an opportunity for students to balance cultural and business concerns while tackling a major issue for an organization.

The first ten weeks are spent working on campus, followed by a working trip to a global destination. For the final ten weeks, students are back on campus finalizing the project.

GLOBAL CHALLENGE

HOW THIS WILL HELP YOUR ORGANIZATION The Denver MBA is designed to enhance the skills and acumen of students who have gained experience in real-world environments and to prepare them to make an immediate impact on your organization. Our students are required to perform at a consistently high level, developing critical knowledge and leadership skills through a continuous loop of real-world experience and feedback from business professionals.

The challenge-driven project work will not only provide your organization with a source of innovative ideas and strategies, but also with a direct connection to future leaders who have both the hard and soft skills necessary to thrive in today’s work environment. By engaging with these students every week, you will have the opportunity to see firsthand the type of results a Denver MBA student can deliver for your organization.

THE

DENVER MBA

THE STUDENTS WHO WILL BE COMPLETING THE PROJECTS Denver MBA students are transformational thinkers who typically have three-to-five years of work experience and have been exposed to a broad curriculum focused on general business expertise and repeated project work. During their time in the Denver MBA, students will explore the fundamentals of business including marketing, management, accounting and finance. They will also participate in approximately five months of leadership training, undergo repeated 360° performance reviews and have a deep knowledge of building high efficiency teams.

"This process has had a very positive effect on my career search, opening me up to companies and industries which I never would have considered. Before I started my work with Newmont Mining, I would have never imagined that a mining company would be setting the bar for other corporations on issues like Corporate Social Responsibility.

It's amazing how this type of direct exposure to companies outside of your consideration set can alter your perspective and your career path. I’ve learned you should never judge a book by its cover, or in other words, a company by its industry."

— Paige Conklin, MBA Candidate ‘17

“AT&T has been partnering with Daniels on corporate projects since 2013—we continue the practice based on the overall value it brings to the company. The students, faculty and staff bring a fresh perspective to the communications marketplace and we always walk away with a new outlook, strategy or approach to addressing our real-world opportunities. As an innovation company, it’s great to collaborate with a young, vibrant and energetic community of students who challenge the status quo and require our leaders to see a problem through a different lens. We always come away better informed and positioned to win.

It’s important to understand that AT&T is not built on our products, technology or network—we are built around and are ultimately only successful because of our people.

The corporate projects allow AT&T to work closely with the next generation talent pool and they are a great way to bring future employees and leaders into the AT&T family.”

— Michael Kirk, Director of Global Internet of Things Development, AT&T

WE LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH YOU AS WE REINVENT THE TRADITIONAL MBA. YOUR SUPPORT IS THE KEY TO DEVELOPING STUDENTS WITH THE EXPERIENCE TO CHANGE THE GAME FOR ORGANIZATIONS LIKE YOURS. @DANIELSATDU | #DENVERMBA | DANIELS.DU.EDU/CHALLENGE | 303.871.2444

RIGOR RELEVANCE RESULTS