Though the Leadership course, a required class for Master of Business Administration students, doesn’t have traditional tests, co-instructor Christopher Pavadore would argue that the students are constantly being tested. During the two-week class, APU students, as well as a handful of students from Danube University Krems in Austria, complete a series of activities that are designed to More
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Fall Innovation MBA Classes – Innovation and Lean Startups
Alaska Pacific University’s Hickel Endowment for Strategic Leadership and Entrepreneurship is offering two new fall courses: Innovation Strategies for Business (MBA60710, 1 Credit) and Lean Startup and Business Model Creation (MBA60720, 2 credits). Classes will be starting August 29th, meeting on Mondays through the fall semester. Degree and non-degree students can attend one or both More
Startup Weekend
by Miriam Mezzetti Alaska Pacific University values our Alaskan community. We love encouraging our fellow Alaskans to pursue their educational and professional dreams. We therefore support events like Startup Weekend: an opportunity for Alaskans to develop and pitch a startup concept to investors and executives. Startup weekend participants arrive on Friday night of the competition More
Alaska Native Executive Leadership Achievements: Graduation!
Alaska Pacific University congratulates its Alaska Native Executive Leadership Program (ANELP) graduates! Eighteen professionals from Alaska Native corporations and non-profits were selected by their companies’ management teams for ANELP’s nine month intensive Masters-level business education program specifically designed for emerging Native Alaska business leaders. The 2014/15 ANELP cohort graduation on June 11th marked the culmination More
Alaska Pacific University Helps Prepare the Next Generation of Native Business Leaders
This Friday, eighteen mid-career Native business professionals will shift gears to become students again as they attend a two-day class in Alaska Pacific University’s Alaska Native Executive Leadership Program (ANELP). They will hear from Alaska’s history makers and experts on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act as part of their second course, ANCSA History & More
Breaking News: American Children are Less Obese, Shorter, More Diverse, and Possibly Younger
Written by Dale Lehman, Ph.D., Director of MBA Programs and Professor of Economics at APU You may have seen recent news headlines such as “Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade” (New York Times, February 25, 2014). This story, picked up by virtually all American newspapers, originated with the publication of a research More
How to beat the competition? Hickel scholar explains at public talk, University course
An internationally ranked consultant, lecturer and self-described “innovation badass,” Eric J. Romero, Ph.D., is the next in a series of APU visiting scholars offering insight into the changing demands of business leadership. Romero holds the University’s Walter J. Hickel Endowed Professorship in Strategic Leadership and Entrepreneurship. His course, “Competitive Advantage Through Leadership and Culture,” begins More
Alaska Pacific University is alive with entrepreneurs!
More than 50 local entrepreneurs eager for real-world advice gathered at APU for the annual Entrepreneurial Edge Speed Coaching and Boot Camp. Held Feb. 23-24, Day 1 brought together entrepreneurs and business professionals for speed-coaching sessions. Each expert met one-on-one with an entrepreneur for 15 minutes before a bell went off, signaling time for entrepreneurs More
We should demand better from our policy makers and the press?
I don’t think I am alone in being confused about what the imminent sequestration really means. Must air traffic controllers be furloughed or not? Must food inspections be cut? Must national parks be shut down? There are countless tirades both for and against what Congress and/or the President has done or not done, but precious More
Business Administration Department attains Candidacy status with IACBE
At the November meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), the Business Administration Department’s application for candidacy status was granted. By pursuing this business education specific accreditation, the department is demonstrating APU’s commitment to quality education in Business Administration and Management at the undergraduate (BA-BAM) and graduate More
