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Risk & Reward By Chris Albert The board of directors is listening intently to a fellow member about a decision they need to make. At risk are thousands of dollars, if not tens of thousands. They might lose it all. Or, they could reap great…
investment fund are making are very real. And so is the money. The students that are part of the Mary Lund Davis Investment Fund at PLU have been able to gain invaluable experience using the same tools and concepts investors use on Wall Street. It is one of the many unique ways students in the School of Business can apply lessons learned in the classroom to real-life situations. “In the class can you simulate risk?” asks Kevin Boeh, a professor in the School of Business and adviser to the club. “We don’t
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Cause Haun ’93 went from frustrated mom searching for appropriate children’s footwear to owner of a shoe company worthy of Nordstrom’s shelves.
Baby Steps Baby Steps https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/05/shoes-1-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg January 25, 2017 May 22, 2017 Back then, it was just another class project. Cause Haun ’93, pretending to be CEO of a shoe company in a business class at Pacific Lutheran University, was tasked with critically analyzing what would set her brand
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20 semester hours Students are expected to work closely with Innovation Studies faculty advisors to ensure the most personalized programs and instruction possible.
253.535.7595 www.plu.edu/innovation-studies halvormj@plu.edu Michael Halvorson, Ph.D., Director The Innovation Studies program focuses on nurturing and developing original thought, transformative ideas, and breakthrough products in a team-driven context. The minor combines PLU’s distinctive offerings in the liberal arts and the professional schools, as well as programming offered by the Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. The Innovation Studies minor is especially supportive of, and
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The Access Department is mainly utilized for requesting and changing key and/or card access for PLU employees and students.
allow 7 to 10 business days for processing. If it can be accomplished earlier, it will be. If your access requires keys, pick them up at Campus Safety (CSAF) after you have received an email from CSAF/Access Administration indicating keys are ready for pick up. Campus Safety is located on the 1st floor of Neeb Center at 125th & Park Ave. Office hours are Mon-Fri 8am-pm. If you don’t already have a LuteCard, go online to https://www.plu.edu/lutecard/ and follow the instructions. REMINDER: New
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Imagine your phone starts buzzing at 10:30 p.m. When you turn it over to see who could possibly be calling this late you see that it’s your professor and mentor trying to Facetime you —for a job opportunity. That’s what happened to PLU Alumna Andrea…
Busick ’99, MBA ’09, was Adams’s business professor at PLU. Busick, who also serves as Tacoma’s MultiCare Health System chief technology officer and vice president, was at a conference dinner when a colleague — a hiring manager at Nike — asked him to recommend someone for an open position. The person he recommended was Adams. And, so, they decided to call her up right there during dinner. Today, Adams lives in Beaverton, Oregon and works at the Nike World Headquarters as the Direct Strategy
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CIWA Board Chair Geoff Foy, Associate Provost of Graduate Programs and Continuing Education
CIWA Symposium Nov. 5, 2022US and China: Ways of Togetherness美国与中国：和合之道9:00AM - 9:15AM Opening Remarks CIWA Board Chair Geoff Foy, Associate Provost of Graduate Programs and Continuing Education 9:15AM - 10:30AM Panel 1: Business Connections Chung-shing Lee Dean, School of Business, St. Martin’s University Norwell Coquillard Director, Washington State China Relations Council Established 1979. The Washington State China Relations Council is the nation’s leading statewide organization dedicated
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Make things easier, faster, and better. The Innovation Studies program prepares students for life after graduation by emphasizing the skills that employers most want from college graduates.
Careers for Innovation Studies MinorsInnovate on Behalf of the EarthMake things easier, faster, and better. The Innovation Studies program prepares students for life after graduation by emphasizing the skills that employers most want from college graduates. Think of this program as a toolkit containing essential business and problem-solving skills that will enhance the core proficiencies of your major and apply those skills to the real world. Innovation Studies courses prepare students to
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As a child, Matt Bliss ’98 relished celebrating the holidays at his grandparents’ Broomfield, Colorado, home where the Christmas tree was anything but ordinary. Bliss’s grandfather, Lawrence Stoecker, designed his own tree, an artful cascade of concentric rings that hung from the ceiling. He crafted…
something completely unique that I’d never seen before.” Inspired to share his grandfather’s tree design with the world, Bliss founded Modern Christmas Trees in 2011. At the time of this interview in early October, Bliss had just received 28 pallets of goods at his Denver home where he and a few seasonal workers will assemble and package orders for delivery. “There have been a lot of ups and downs with this business,” said Bliss. “Sometimes I have to remind myself how far we’ve come.”In recent years
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Andrew Miller ‘14 and his partners at Mount Vernon’s Tulip Town were counting on a big haul in April. That’s when 350,000 tourists normally flock to the area to celebrate the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival and admire seas of colorful blooms. A graduate of PLU’s…
March in an effort to slow the spread. The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival was canceled, and Tulip Town’s new owners suddenly faced the possibility of going out of business in their first year. “We’d been tracking COVID-19 since January, thinking that it might be a disruption,” Miller recalled. “We knew we were going to have to flip the switch and do some things differently. So, in about 72 hours, we completely rewrote our business plan for 2020.” Miller drew heavily on lessons he had learned while
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The finish line The call came from Japan as Masahide Nishimura was finishing up his degree in Chinese Studies at Pacific Lutheran University a decade ago. His grandfather, Jisaburo Nishimura, 92, had had a stroke. Masahide felt he needed to come home and support his…
May 18, 2009 The finish line The call came from Japan as Masahide Nishimura was finishing up his degree in Chinese Studies at Pacific Lutheran University a decade ago. His grandfather, Jisaburo Nishimura, 92, had had a stroke. Masahide felt he needed to come home and support his grandfather, who had raised him, and help with the family business – Kobe Toyopet Corp. – which distributes Lexus, Toyota and Volkswagen cars. This was a company started by his grandfather some 50 years earlier. “I
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