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Fitzgerald and Tyler

Leadership Fellows Mentor Spotlight - 3/21/2016

Each week the College of Business and Public Policy will be highlighting a mentor in the Leadership Fellows program with an interview conducted by their protégé. This week’s featured protégé/mentor pairing is Keri-Lyn Fitzgerald, who is pursuing her degree in finance and economics, and her mentor, Ethan Tyler, who is the Development Manager for the State of Alaska Division of Economic Development.

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Does corporate social responsibility pay?

Experimental Economics: Does Corporate Social Responsibility Pay?

Does it pay for a company to be socially responsible? Are they just giving away profits, or does social responsibility actually increase sales? You'd think the benefits were certain, given the number of companies not only engaged in it, but happy to tell us all about it. Yet economists actually report mixed results. Some companies with strong social records don't do so well economically, and some with weak social records do just fine.

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Nantia Krisintu and her mentor Bruce Lamoureux

Leadership Fellows Mentor Spotlight - 3/14/2016

Each week the College of Business and Public Policy will be highlighting a mentor in the Leadership Fellows program with an interview conducted by their protégé. This week’s featured protégé/mentor pairing is Nantia Krisintu, who completed her MPA this past December, and her mentor, Bruce Lamoureux, who is the President of Providence Health Systems Alaska.

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Anna Brown and her mentor Bruce Bustamante

Leadership Fellows Mentor Spotlight - 3/7/2016

Each week the College of Business and Public Policy will be highlighting a mentor in the Leadership Fellows program with an interview conducted by their protégé. This week’s featured protégé/mentor pairing is Anna Brown, who completed her MBA this past December, and her mentor, Bruce Bustamante, who is the President of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.

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Gunnar Knapp

Gunnar Knapp Answers Questions about Alaska's Budget Crisis

Gunnar Knapp, a College of Business and Public Policy economics professor and director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), lays out the state’s fiscal picture, including four areas where solutions need to come from. A video was created and posted Feb. 16, 2016 by the Alaska Dispatch News. Knapp also took questions for an hour from viewers.

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