With the school year winding down, Alaska Pacific University took time last week to recognize it’s exemplary students, staff, and faculty members during the Annual Honors Assembly. Here are the highlights from the April 20th event. Faculty Merit Awards: It is one of the longstanding traditions at APU, that faculty would recommend one another for…
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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…
Is the Market About to Crash?
Written by Dale Lehman, Ph.D., Director of MBA Programs and Professor of Economics at APU You may have seen buzz like the Wall Street Journal Article, “Scary 1929 market chart gains traction”. There is a generally “Scary Picture” showing an apparent parallel track the stock market is following now to what happened in the crash of 1929….
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…
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…
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…
Looming Fiscal Cliff?
From time to time, journalists and commentators refer to a looming fiscal cliff. Most of us don’t know what this is or what it means. The fiscal cliff entails the sunsetting of many of the tax laws put into place during the Bush years and renewed for the past two years as well as some…
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…
