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February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Volunteer Call!
Inland Valley Hope Partners Project

The Drucker Society of the Drucker School is organizing a project in coalition with Inland Valley Hope Partners. The team is looking for student volunteers to mentor shelter members. The group will meet at the shelter in Pomona on Fridays (time, still to be determined) for five weeks. The goal is to empower and guide families in developing effective and successful skills for independent living once they exit the shelter.

Please consider volunteering some time! For more information, contact Jennifer Bobadilla at jennifer.bobadilla@cgu.edu.

CGU’s Graduate Student Council Hosts:
A Valentine’s Art Celebration at The GSC House
Tuesday, February 9
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

It’s the week before Valentine’s Day and it’s time to express your love and appreciation! Let the artist in you come out and play as we launch the the GSC House “Scrawl Wall” — an ongoing collaborative piece of art for drawing, writing, and painting. Materials will be provided. Donations of paint, markers and brushes are most welcome, too!

Even if you don’t want to be an artist that day, stop by, say hello, and see the GSC House for yourself. The GSC House is located at 127 East 12th Street. It’s the little yellow house with a low stone wall in the unmarked alley behind the Writing Center.

Light snacks will also be provided.

For more information, contact Becky Bakkers at rebecca.bakkers@cgu.edu.

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Drucker Marketing Club Meeting
First Meeting of Spring Semester!
Tuesday, February 9
4 – 5 p.m.
Burkle 19

Join the marketing club for a discussion about club activities, guest speakers this term, and new directors for the club in the next academic year!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

Drop in or e-mail Shengfu Wang and Xiao Xiao at druckermarketingclub@gmail.com or at

909-267-5963 with any questions you may have about the club.

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Asian Business Association
General Meeting
Thursday, February 11
4 – 5 p.m.
Burkle (Room TBD)

Everyone is invited to this general meeting of the Drucker Chapter of the Asian Business Association! If you haven’t yet gotten involved, learn how you can become an ABA member and enjoy access to all the benefits that membership provides.

If you have questions about the ABA Drucker chapter, contact Gina Kwong or Jolie Liu at drucker.aba@gmail.com.

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RSVP Now!
Harvey Mudd College Speaker Series Guest:
Dina Dublon, Former CFO of JPMorgan Chase
Tuesday, February 16
5:30 p.m. Reception
6 – 7 p.m. Dinner and Lecture
Platt Campus Center at Harvey Mudd College

Dina Dublon was chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. where she was responsible for the company’s financial management and operations, strategy and acquisitions, corporate treasury and investor relations until her retirement from the company at the end of 2004.

This speaker series, supported by The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fund for Leadership Development, engages the Harvey Mudd College community in important thought and discussion about the role of leadership in the world.

Seating is limited. Please RSVP by February 9 to Marina Jimenez at marina_jimenez@hmc.edu or at 909-607-7862.

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Save The Date!
Downtown L.A. Drucker Social
Wednesday, February 17
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Suede Bar & Lounge at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles

Come enjoy a casual evening of networking and fun with Drucker alumni, students, and friends. The event is free! Please RSVP. Hosted Hors d’oeuvres. Drinks on your own!

(Suede Bar & Lounge is owned and managed by Drucker alumna Lillian Gastelum, Class of 1999!)

For more information contact druckeralumni@cgu.edu.

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Third Annual Neeley Sales & Marketing Strategy Case Competition
Sponsored by Sony Electronics USA
Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
Weekend of March 26 – 27

Registration deadline is February 14 — first come, first served

Join up to 50 of the best and brightest MBAs from around the nation in this sales and marketing case competition. Compete for $12,000 in prize money! Meet and mingle with top Sony executives! Apply your savvy sales and marketing theory and experience to a current business challenge presented by Sony Electronics USA. No more than 12 teams will compete.

For more information and a link to registration go to: www.sonycasecomp.tcu.edu

Or, for more information, contact Matt Witenstein at matthew.witenstein@cgu.edu

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“Thursday on Drucker Way,” Feb. 11, 5 – 7:30 p.m. A Celebration of Chinese New Year!

February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The Drucker School’s new weekly mixer “Thursdays on Drucker Way” is up-and-running. Last week’s gathering was a big hit!

This week, the Asian Business Association Student Club will be organizing Thursday’s celebration in honor of the upcoming Chinese New Year. The event will be sponsored by the Drucker/Ito School.

All Drucker students are invited to join in the fun! Snacks will be served and there will be a selection of beers from a variety of Asian countries!

Thursday, February 11
5 – 7:30 p.m.
Burkle Courtyard

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Net Impact Speaker, Tuesday Feb. 9!

February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

On Tuesday, Net Impact’s Drucker Chapter will host a guest speaker: Dan Bornholdt, Founder and President of Green Suites. The topic will be “Greening The Hotel Industry.”

Dan Bornholdt founded Green Suites in January 1993 with a small, enthusiastic group of “green capitalists.” Today, Green Suites is “greening the hotel industry” with products and services in more than 2,500 hotel customers in 50 states and 45 countries with a mission of providing the lodging industry with profitable solutions that enhance, preserve, and promote the environment.

More information about Green Suites can be found at their web site, www.greensuites.com.

Event details:

Tuesday, February 9
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Burkle 14

Snacks will be served!

If you have questions, please e-mail Sarah Schwald at DruckerNI@gmail.com

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iPad a Hard Sell?

February 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The recent buzz surrounding the iPad reflects high hopes that it can transform the publishing industry. Newspapers look to the iPad to reinvigorate their rapidly shrinking industry by spurring demand for downloadable applications that feature content not available on the Web. Book publishers see the iPad as a vehicle to stimulate buying of electronic books and fuel competition that forces e-book leader Amazon to give publishers more leeway on pricing.

However, the challenge with the iPad is that consumers seem genuinely baffled by why they might need it or why they might pay $500 or more for it. Since they’re already carrying smartphones and laptops, why bother with something in between?

For the iPad to succeed, it’s going to have to prove itself as a lot more than just an overgrown iPod Touch with a digital bookstore tossed in. The iPad’s success or failure will come not from the device itself but from what people can do with it. That will mean unique software that takes advantage of the hardware features like the large screen.

Without killer apps, Apple may not have strong enough demand for the large-screened iPad that plays music and movies, browses the Web, and displays e-books. Though, Apple clearly thinks that the iPad has a niche or it wouldn’t devote the money and resources it did to creating it. Only time and consumer preferences will determine the iPad’s longevity.

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Nation’s Health Spending Spike at 50 Year Record High

February 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

As the battle to reform healthcare continues to wage on Capitol Hill, the nation’s spending on health continues to rise.

Recent government estimates show that in 2009 the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to have increased 1.1 percentage points to account for 17.3 percent, the largest single year increase since 1960!

Loosely translated, that 1.1 percentage point translates in to $2.47 trillion, up 5.7 percent from the $2.34 trillion spent on health in 2008. The estimates, prepared by actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, appear in the March issue of the journal Health Affairs.

Average public spending growth rates for hospital, physician and clinical services, and prescription drugs are expected to exceed private spending growth in the first four years of the projections. As a result, public spending is projected to account for more than half of all U.S. health care spending by 2012.

So whether citizens are for or against greater government involvement in health care under overhaul legislation, there’s no escaping the fact that Uncle Sam will be footing most of the nation’s health bills very soon.

A huge factor in the big jump in the share of GDP going to health spending–and the bigger role for the government–is the overall slowdown in the economy, changing demographics and baby boomers aging into Medicare, and Medicaid enrollment galloping along as unemployment rises.

If government estimates are right, the nation will be spending $4.48 trillion for health care in 2019–19.3 percent of the then economy’s GDP.

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Thursdays on Drucker Way! February 4

February 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment


“Thursdays on Drucker Way” is a new weekly event brought to you by the Drucker/Ito School. Come out and join with everyone in the Drucker Community for a new ongoing weekly gathering of students, staff members, faculty, and friends — beer and snacks in the Burkle Courtyard!

Thursday, February 4
5 – 7:30 p.m.
Burkle Courtyard

We’ll see you all on Thursday!

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Run for DSSA! Deadline to Register: Feb. 5!

February 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Click Here for Details About Positions and FAQs
It’s time to vote-in a new team of students to run the Drucker School
Student Association (DSSA).

DSSA is an elected group that represents the student body at The
Drucker/Ito School. It serves as an organizational “umbrella” for a
diverse range of student groups and it strives to meet the needs and
expectations of the student body through internal and external
collaboration and coordination with school’s administration, student
clubs, alumni, and the community at-large.

The following positions are available:
• President
• Vice President, Communications
• Vice President, Operations
• Treasurer
• Events Director
• Graduate Student Council Representative

The DEADLINE to REGISTER your candidacy is Friday, February 5!

E-mail dssa@cgu.edu with your name and the position you’re running
for. Your name will be placed on the ballot. Elections will be held at
the end of February!

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Social Entrepreneurship Info Session

December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

When: Friday, Dec. 4 • Noon – 2 p.m.
Where: Burkle Building, Room B-14
Why: Lunch will be provided!

In Spring 2010, the Drucker School will offer a unique class: Becoming a Social Entrepreneur/Global Change Agent taught by visiting professor Warner Woodworth (BYU). This 4-unit course will offer training and insight to achieving global changes by learning and then applying organizational behavior, economics, and social entrepreneurship skills to improve society!

Do you have questions?
E-mail Christina Wassenaar: christina.wassenaar@cgu.edu

About Warner Woodworth

Warner P. Woodworth has a PhD in Organization Behavior from the University of Michigan and has been active in dynamic policy changes since the 1970s. In the 1980s, he was advising various governments on how to democratize industry while simultaneously establishing several nonprofit consulting entities. From the 1980s in to the mid-1990s, his career shifted focus to the Third World and global microcredit. He was heavily involved with the incorporation of the NGO Enterprise Mentors International (EMI), which has given out over $9 million in microloans, and today has some 20 offices in 5 countries. He also played a role in disaster relief work in Mali, West Africa. Currently a published author of 10 books, his work has received extensive media coverage and his academic, writing, teaching, and entrepreneurial pursuits continue to focus on microenterprise, overall poverty alleviation, and civic consciousness.

To read more about Prof. Woodworth: http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/WPW/

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Want to Win Prizes Totaling over $20,000?!

November 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Come to the Finance Club’s information session about the ACG Cup Competition this Tuesday, December 1, from 12 pm to 1 pm, in the Burkle Building (room TBD). This finance oriented case competition is open to all current MBA and MSFE students. According to the ACG Cup Website:

“The ACG Cup is a case study competition designed to give students from leading MBA programs across the country real world experience and invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory and private equity. Each case study provides students with a unique opportunity to present valuation, capital markets and M&A strategic advice to a panel of seasoned M&A professionals from within the ACG community. The competition is carried out through a series of intra-school and regional competitions, with regional winners awarded the prestigious ACG Cup title and cash awards.”

For more information about the competition, please visit:

http://www.acg.org/ACGCup/AboutACGCup/tabid/386/Default.aspx

To RSVP to the meeting, or make further inquiries, please contact Nedda Kavoossi at Nedda_K@yahoo.com.

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State of the School & “Drucker Way” Ceremony — Oct. 8 at 4 p.m.

September 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Drucker School and the Drucker Institute are all invited to join in a community event in celebration of the Drucker Centennial!

Thursday, October 8
4:00 – 7:15 p.m.

Here is the event schedule:

4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
State of the School Meeting • Burkle 16
Find out the latest Drucker school news from Dean Ira Jackson and the school administration.

5:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Drucker Way Centennial • Street Renaming Ceremony of 11th Street
Join the Mayor of Claremont and city officials for the official renaming of part of 11th Street to “Drucker Way.”

5:45 – 7:15 p.m.
Reception • Burkle Courtyard
Join us for a celebration reception in the Burkle Courtyard!

Questions? E-mail dssa@cgu.edu

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