Managing creativity and innovation is considered by Fortune 500 companies as one of the most admirable characteristics for employees, executive teams, and investors. The Center for Creativity & Innovation helps individuals and teams to become more creative in problem solving, and enables organizations to surmount the barriers to creativity that stand between performance and successful innovation. The Center sponsors workshops, seminars, and a variety of programs for the internal and external DePaul communities. Dr. Lisa Gundry is the Center's director.

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center provides consulting services to students who are aspiring entrepreneurs or are already running their own businesses.  In addition, the CEC conducts a wide variety of seminars and workshops in which students learn about the start-up process, practical challenges that entrepreneurs face, and specific strategies and tactics entrepreneurs employ to be more successful.  Its most popular student program is S.Y.O.B. (Start Your Own Business), a two-hour workshop that covers business plans, the steps necessary to start a business, and how most small businesses are financed.

Coleman Foundation Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship

Through the generosity of the Coleman Foundation an endowed chair was established for a nationally recognized scholar in the field of entrepreneurship. Professor Harold P. Welsch, Ph.D., has been the holder of the endowed chair since September of 1989.

The Institute For Business & Professional Ethics

Founded in 1985, The Institute for Business & Professional Ethics (IBPE) was established as a joint effort of the Colleges of Commerce and of Liberal Arts & Sciences at DePaul University. The mission of the Institute is to encourage ethical deliberation in decision-makers by stirring the moral conscience and imagination. The IBPE coordinates a number of programs annually that include the Vincentian Colleges International Conference on Business Ethics, and workshops for faculty and students. The Institute also is charged with auditing the status of the business ethics curriculum at the university, and benchmarking the status of compliance programs and their implementation in the corporate environment.

Wicklander Chair In Business Ethics

The Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics, a faculty member at DePaul, serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics in the College of Commerce at DePaul University. Professor Patricia Werhane, Ph.D., holds the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics.