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…
Business Administration Department
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…
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…
Anchorage Startup Weekend – Sept 21-23, 2012
Startup Week at Alaska Pacific University’s Atwood Hall is a weekend-long, hands-on experience where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable. On average, half of Startup Weekend’s attendees have technical or design backgrounds, the other half have business backgrounds. Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best…
Thiru and Krupa are among invited presenters on change in higher education
Yaso Thiru, APU associate professor of accounting and management, teamed with APU Assistant Professor Meagan Krupa for an invited presentation at Arizona State University on ways to transform higher education in the face of a changing world economy. Thiru and Krupa discussed ways that social entrepreneurship education could advance Alaska Pacific University as a resilient…
Spreadsheet risk modeling is focus of new text by APU’s Lehman
Economics professor Dale Lehman has co-authored a textbook in risk analytics, a rapidly developing field with potential to refine decision making in business and other areas with public policy implications. Practical spreadsheet risk modeling for management combines theory, case studies, instruction and exercises drawn from real-world projects and data from a range of industry sectors….
APU adds international scholar Babu George to MBA faculty
A trans-disciplinary researcher with an interest in service-sector consumer behavior, Babu George, Ph.D., has joined the Alaska Pacific University faculty in the Business Administration Department. George, who arrived from his native India in January, earned his doctorate in management studies, marketing and tourism in YEAR from WHERE. He teaches courses in X, Y and Z…
A Tale of 3 Continents
I’ve just spent a week in Europe and it got me thinking of the similar, but different, economic troubles facing the major world economies. Europeans seem concerned but not frantic (no, I did not speak to all Europeans, so I am just sharing my unscientific observations). They seemed surprised at my statements that Europe’s problems…
Market Volatility and the Flight to Quality
When fear grips investors and money flows out of the stock market, it flows into the Treasury Bond market in a flight to quality. The result is higher prices for Treasury debt and therefore lower interest rates. If investors are anticipating higher interest rates in the near future, investments will be in Treasury Bills and…
From Tim Geithner: What the world must do to boost growth
The US Treasury Secretary suggests that the world must do three things to boost growth: 1. US should act to strengthen growth and employment 2. Europe must work on putting confidence back into its financial system 3. Emerging economies must continue to stimulate domestic demand and allow the exchange rate to float For the full…
