PLU Business Venture-Winter 2008 / School of Business

PLU Business Venture

Winter 2008

The PLU Business Venture is the School of Business and PLU Business Network online newsletter keeping you informed and connected to life-long learning and opportunity.

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Congratulations to the 2007 Washington Family Business Award winners

George Bartell Since 1994, Pacific Lutheran University has been committed to supporting local, family-owned business and promoting family enterprise within the Pacific Northwest. This year five Northwest family-owned businesses were selected from 14 finalists. This annual event is sponsored by the Family Enterprise Institute at Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business. Winners this year include Dynamic Language Centers, small business; Air Van, medium business; RD Merrill & Merrill Gardens, large business; Hama Hama Co., heritage business; Real Estate Marketplace NW, Inc., new business.
This year’s keynote speaker was George Bartell (pictured above), chairman and chief executive officer of Bartell Drugs. Bartell Drugs is the oldest family-owned drugstore chain in the US.
For more information about the Family Enterprise Institute, visit their website at www.plu.edu/~fament/.
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PLU School of Business named among the 290 best business schools by the Princeton Review
The PLU School of business is included in the 2008 edition of the Princeton Review's Best 290 Business Schools. The Princeton Review collected the opinions of students at over 290 of the best AACSB-accredited MBA programs in the world and gathered statistical information on many more in order to give readers the widest possible base of information for selecting the right business school for them.

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MBA SAC golf charity event a success

e-Business Day 2007 brings IT experts to campus

Faculty accomplishments

American Marketing Association raises club awareness through bowl-a-thon

Beta Alpha Psi helps at 36th annual Yule Boutique

Mark your calendars for the Spring 2008 State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series

Rick Gorman
Vice President and General Manager
PACCAR Parts
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
6-7 p.m.
Morken Center
Room 103

Tom O'Keefe
Founder, Chairman and Head Barista
Tully's Coffee
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
6-7 p.m.
Morken Center
Room 103

Carolyn Lee
Agency Vice President of Pacific Northwest Zone
State Farm Mutual Insurance Company
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
6-7 p.m.
Morken Center
Room 103

Howard Schmidt
President & CEO
R&H Security Consulting LLC
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Morken Center
Room 103

James Murphy
Senior Vice President – International Division
Costco Wholesale
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
6-7 p.m.
Morken Center
Room 103