April 19 Speaker | Amro Albanna

We are pleased to have Amro Albanna, Founder and CEO of Innovation Economy Corporation, joining us next Tuesday, April 19, at 5:00 P.M. in Cossentine Hall 100 to speak to our students. Mr. Albanna's work and personal development exists as a model for entrepreneurs around the world. This will certainly be a talk that is not to be missed. Read more below for a biography of Amro Albanna's work and achievements.

This talk is part of the La Sierra University School of Business Colloquium Series. Business colloquium is designed to provide our students and other attendees with an opportunity for intensive engagement with topics of high interest and applicability to the real world around them. In the School of Business we strongly encourage and actively work to provide opportunities for such engagement.

Upcoming Events | Feb/March

Mark your calendars! The following events are happening in the School of Business the remainder of winter quarter!

1. Friday, February 25, Snowboarding trip with Business Club and HESA. Contact Charm Tuazon at charm.tuazon@gmail.com for more details!

2. Tuesday, March 1, 11 AM, Meier Chapel in Sierra Towers - School of Business Assembly - required for colloquium students as well as university worship attendees.

3. Friday, March 11, 12 -2 PM, School of Business Barbeque, Hunt Park. Good food, fun games, prizes and community! Sign-up up on the sheets in the downstairs lobby beginning the week of February 28. You may bring a friend - just put their name down with yours so we have plenty of food!

4. Advising - registration starts on Monday, March 7. Watch for sign-up sheets outside your advisor's door. Cheryl Bauman's advising sign-up sheets will be posted starting Tuesday, February 22.

Colloquium Speaker | Feb 15

Just a reminder to all that this Tuesday's colloquium will feature Vivienne Stanford, from State Farm Insurance. She will be sharing the career path that State Farm offers. Their business has weathered the great recession better than other companies in their field. Just last month, they held an orientation gala where they were looking to hire 23 new managers. Their training program is the key to their success and you would be surprised at the income earned by their managers and the longevity of ther careers.

See you Tuesday at 5 PM in CH 100.

Speaker Charles Johnson | Feb 8

We are in for a stimulating and thoughtful presentation by our next business colloquium speaker, Charles Johnson. His title will be: "Free Market Anti-Capitalism? Radical Markets, Social Experimentation, and What the Capitalists Left Out."

Charles Johnson is a Research Associate with the Molinari Institute and the author of popular and philosophical articles on the concept of spontaneous order, left-libertarianism, individualist anarchism, free market anti-capitalism, and direct-action alternatives to electoral politics, as well as the co-editor (with Gary Chartier) of the forthcoming collection Markets Not Capitalism. He writes and maintains the Rad Geek People's Daily weblog, and lives and works in Las Vegas.

This event is mandatory for all business colloquium students and we hope that other faculty and students will join us as well. Please join us on Tuesday, February 8, at 5:00 P.M. in Cossentine Hall room 100.

Speaker Change | Jan 25 Colloquium

Tonight's Business Colloquium lecturer has changed. We received word that Scott Horton from AntiWar Radio is unable to join us due to a personal matter. In his place we welcome Butler Shaffer, the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law at Southwestern University in Los Angeles.

Professor Shaffer's presentation will take place at the originally scheduled time, tonight, January 25, at 5 p.m., Cossentine Hall 100.

Butler Shaffer holds a law degree from the University of Chicago. He is the author of the following books: "Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival" ("institutions are the principle means by which conflict is produced and managed in society"), "In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938," "Boundaries of Order," and "The Wizards of Ozymandias."

Following graduation from law school, Professor Shaffer was a labor relations consultant to the Midwest Employers Council in Lincoln, Nebraska, and went on to establish a private law practice in Omaha. He subsequently joined the firm of Nelson, Harding, Marchetti, Leonard & Tate, and then began a career in academia at the University of Nebraska College of Business Administration where he taught courses in business and law. Professor Shaffer has been a member of the Southwestern faculty since 1977.

Don't Miss Johnny Cupcakes!

Hello SB Students!

Tuesday, January 18, from 5-7 PM, you will want to come to CH 100 and hear Johnny Earle share his incredible story of his path to success through his creation of Johnny Cupcakes. T-shirts will be available for sale a bit before the presentation as well as after. This is the first colloquium event of the quarter and you want to make sure you don't miss out. (See more info below!)

Please note this is a two-hour event. Some teachers have made allowances for coming to your 6 PM class later to accommodate this event. If you have any questions, please let me know!

Blessings!

                 Cheryl

Johnny Cupcakes bakes up sweet success in nontraditional ways

Hear his story (and it’s not about baked goods!) at the School of Business colloquium, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 5 p.m., Cossentine Hall, Room 100. Come hear this intriguing, and very cool story.

Johnny Earle, a.k.a. ‘Johnny Cupcakes,’ determined as a teenager not to follow the 9-to-5 route he’d seen others struggle with. So he took a joke, turned it into a quirky, attention-getting product and without a business plan, startup funds or advertising, created a Web-and-retail enterprise that has garnered millions in revenue. His cheeky, risk-taking success thrives in large part from his ability to slam the door on traditional big-money deals. In 2008 he took the top spot on Business Week’s Young Entrepreneur list and the next year landed on Inc. magazine’s top 500 fastest growing independent businesses.

Major news outlets, including NPR, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times have featured stories on Johnny Cupcakes, now a chain of three ‘bakeries’ in Los Angeles, Boston and Hull, Mass. Johnny bakes up unique and wildly popular designs for t-shirts, hoodies, shorts and accessories including an iPhone case and displays them in glass ‘bakery’ and refrigerated cases. ‘Nutrition facts’ are posted on the store walls.

Now he’s bringing his story to La Sierra University, as part of his global lecture series, to impart words of wisdom on starting a small business with little or no money, effective use of the Internet, the importance of graphic design and packaging, and tips for approaching business in innovative ways. He also talks about how his commitment to a drug-free lifestyle has helped develop his business.

Don’t miss it! Johnny Cupcakes—‘0 Carbs! 0 Sugars! 0 Fat!’