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| California Lutheran University’s School of Management continues to provide a stimulating environment for our learners and the community around us, even in these unusual times. Today, we are once again happy to share a selection of exciting news, updates, and upcoming events with our communities in Southern California and beyond.
We encourage you to stay current on what’s going on at the School of Management by following our Showcase page on LinkedIn. |
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Help us Reach for the Stars! | Help us shape the future of education. This year, we are Reaching for the Stars during Cal Lutheran’s Cares Day on Wednesday, April 6th! By making a gift to the School of Management you can choose to support any of four key areas:
- Graduate Diversity Scholarship fund
- Student Competition fund
- Future School of Management building
- The School’s area of Greatest Need.
Any amount makes an impact. Show your support for the School of Management and help us reach for the stars and support our future business leaders on Cares Day. DONATE NOW |
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| Helping Steer Student’s Career Paths | The Paths to Professionalism event has been a School of Management event for several decades. The event is held in the Spring term and brings together industry panelists who share their career insights on successes and challenges in defining a career path. This year, over 150 students participated over ZOOM. The event featured conversations with guest panelists Jonathan Dong (The Walt Disney Company), Celeste Gehring (Visionary Building), Ted Glick (Washington Commanders), Jackie Jones (Slalom). The panel was moderated by School of Management Sports Management student Ryan Douglas who, together with business students Andrea Villasenor and Brissa Castaneda led the design, planning, and execution of the event. The interview-style conversations were followed by breakout room discussions hosted by recent School of Management alumni who generously gave their time to help students with their questions about career preparation between industry needs and their own passions. Watch event recording on our School of Management YouTube channel. |
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| It’s another Award-Winning Forecast Season for CERF | It has been the forecasting season for our Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF). In February, we held our annual San Fernando Valley Economic Outlook Breakfast in collaboration with the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, and in March, our annual Ventura County Economic Forecast. The Ventura County event drew more than 200 guests who enjoyed a presentation by nationally recognized guest speaker Danielle DiMartino-Booth and our own Matthew Fienup’s outlook for the national, state, and regional economy. Also in March, Matthew Fienup (Executive Director, CERF) and Dan Hamilton (Director of Economics at CERF and Program Director, MS in Quantitative Economics) were notified that they won the Zillow Crystal Ball Award for most accurate forecasts of home price expectations – for the third time in a row! They succeeded in a field of approximately 100 forecasting houses around the country. We are incredibly proud of our Center. |
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| Faculty Spotlight on Sabith Khan | Director of our Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) program, Sabith Khan, has been appointed to the newly established Global Committee at the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). The Council serves as an information sharing and coordinating mechanism which assists the International Director in the development of an international agenda for ASPA, and serves as a link between the national leadership and international related activities and membership, among others. Sabith also chairs the South Asian Section for Public Administration of ASPA, which has been selected as the recipient of the Oveta Culp Hobby Training Award. This award is given annually to recognize chapters and sub-sections of ASPA for providing exceptional professional development programming and activities to members. Over the holiday break, Professor Khan also met with program alumni in Saudi Arabia. We’re happy to report that they are building impressive leadership careers that contribute to the advancement of Saudi Arabia. Always proud of our faculty members. |
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| Business of Sports Club Thriving | Our Business of Sports student club has been very busy in its first year. They visited the San Diego Padres for a behind-the-scenes tour of Petco Park that included an up-close look at the Press Box, Luxury Suites, Hall of Fame, Cutwater Coronado Club, and Field Warning Track. Afterwards, the Padres hosted an informative Q & A session with Chelsea Dill, Director of Tourism and Corporate Events, and Karina Boites, Account Executive of Group Tickets and Hospitality, who provided exceptional career advice for our aspiring and future professionals. They also had another behind-the-scenes tour at SoFi stadium, where the Rams just won Super Bowl 2022! They have also held virtual events with Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission and the Los Angeles Rams HR. Mark Orlando will continue to advise, as the newly appointed Program Director, for the undergraduate Sports Management major. |
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| Alumnus Owned Business Named Fastest Growing | How does 5,000% growth sound to you? Last Fall, the San Fernando Valley Business Journal’s celebrated the Fastest Growing Companies in the San Fernando Valley. Listed as #1, was Packform, a company founded by alumnus Preston Geeting (Business Administration ’02). Packform is an online marketplace that disrupts the packaging industry as we know it. As reported in the media, it closed a $25 million pre-IPO round. Congratulations to alumnus, Preston, (shown in the photo with Charlie Crumpley, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal). Our Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship continues to support our SoCal startup community at Hub101. Learn more. |
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- Vlad Vaiman’s (Associate Dean, Graduate Studies) paper “Broadening international mentoring: Contexts and dynamics of expatriate and HCN intercultural mentoring” (with C. Vance and M. Van Bakel) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Mobility.
- Chia-Li Chien (Director, Financial Planning programs) and Hossein Salehi (Financial Planning) published “Retirement income: The case of direct investment in short-term rental property compared to a dividend stock” (together with Cosentino, S. W.) in SAGE Business Cases.
- Kyle McIntosh (Accounting) has published the case study “Advancing the CardioGen Pipeline” in SAGE Business Cases 2022 Annual Collection’s Healthcare Management Series.
- Chia-Li Chien (Director, Financial Planning programs) published “How should CBC credit union analyze the effectiveness of a pilot financial education course for working adults? in SAGE Business Cases.
- Paul Witman’s article, “The 2020 Twitter Hack – So Many Lessons to Be Learned” (co-authored with S. Mackelprang) was accepted for publication by the Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research, and Practice.
- Virginia Gean’s (UG Business, MBA) paper “Theoretical Constructs Critical to Understanding FASB Conceptual Framework” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Business and Accounting.
- Jamshid Damooei (Director, Undergraduate Economics program and Executive Director, Center for Economics of Social Issues) published “Lessons from COVID-19 and Its Impact on Reallocation of Resources: A Cross Country Comparison in Search of a Global Perspective“, in Nezameddin Faghih, Amir Forouharfar (Eds.), Socioeconomic Dynamics of the COVID-19 Crisis: Global, Regional and Local, pp. 27-174, Springer.
- Vlad Vaiman’s paper (with Sunghoon Kim and Karin Sanders) titled “Strategic human resource management in the era of environmental disruptions” has been accepted for publication in Human Resource Management, the highest-ranked international peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the issues of HRM.
- Vlad Vaiman published the edited book (together with A.M.F. and S. Nagy) (2021) “Aspects of Talent Management in the Workplace Environment of the 2020s”, Axiom Academic Publishers, Potchefstroom: South Africa.
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| Our School of Management events are beginning to return to a new normal, some continuing as virtual while others are hybrid or in-person. No matter the delivery, we are still providing great topics, speakers, and educational offerings to our greater School of Management community! |
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- Weekly (Thursdays 10:30-11:30 am): Hub101’s Work Elevation Academy.
- April 5 (5-6:30 pm): DEI in the Workplace: Women and Leadership: What I Wish I had Known In College.
- April 6 (All Day) Cares Day. Support the School of management by giving. Donate now.
- April 13 (6:00 pm, Ullman 100): “State and Local Government: Cooperation or Conflict”, an event in the Distinguished Speaker Series of the Elton and Janice Gallegly Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement with guests Jacqui Irwin, Andrew Powers, and Rick Cole, moderated by Professor Emeritus Herb Gooch.
- April 27 (6:00-7:30 pm): 2022 PRiME Competition event (the virtual component of the PRiME Competition will take place from April 20 – 26).
- April 27 (6:00-7:00 pm, virtual): HOSP (Hospitality) Talk Series with Paula Whitlock, CMP (Senior Event Producer, Special Events Disney Corporate Creative Resources), hosted by Christy Douglass.
- May 4 (4:00 pm): 2022 New Venture Fair awards event (the virtual component of the New Venture Competition will take place from April 27 – May 4).
- May 12 (6:00 pm): School of Management Graduation Celebration. For SOM graduating students and their family, friends, and community.
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