This fall, Chancellor Richard L. Byyny and the Boulder Public Library will sponsor a series of Wednesday evening seminars that will bring cutting-edge ideas from the business world to the Boulder community.
The lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 9, Oct. 7 and Nov. 4 at the Boulder Public Library's main auditorium. Each program will be preceded by refreshments with Chancellor Byyny at 6:30 p.m.
The Chancellor's Business Community Lecture Series will feature three timely topics and four energetic presenters from the College of Business and Administration.
o Sept. 9: Professor Dale Meyer will speak about the disconnect between bureaucracies and creativity. His premise is that creativity is the genesis of entrepreneurship, and that bureaucracy is the mortal enemy of the creative process. Meyer will discuss barriers and gateways to entrepreneurial endeavors.
Meyer is this year's recipient of the Hazel Barnes Prize, CU-Boulder's highest honor for teaching and research.
"Meyer moves beyond campus boundaries and has forged mutually supportive alliances with the business community that benefit CU students and faculty as well as the marketplace," said Chancellor Byyny.
Meyer, who joined the business faculty as an assistant professor in 1970, was instrumental in creating the Center for Entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by the College of Business and Administration and the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The center has been ranked in the nation聮s top 25 for the past five years.
The popular program, which includes courses at the undergraduate, master聮s and doctoral levels, attracts students with opportunities to engage in internships and develop "real-world" businesses 聳 often leading to post-graduation job offers. In addition, the International Council of Small Businesses ranks CU's doctoral program in entrepreneurship No. 1.
o Oct. 7: Management professor Joe Rosse and Bob Levin, an associate with the Center for Human Function and Work, will give a seminar from their popular book, "High Impact Hiring: A Comprehensive Guide to Performance-Based Hiring."
The seminar will help managers make better personnel-related decisions and cover today聮s hot topics 聳 employee integrity testing, backgrounding and assessing counterproductive behavior. The program also gives managers proven frameworks for interviewing, assessing job performance and hiring.
"High Impact Hiring " teaches managers to stop making "crisis hires" and instead to prepare for the future. It shows employers how to recruit and retain good employees and details a simple way for managers to update job descriptions.
Rosse and Levin have extensive experience in hiring. They have developed hiring systems for Coors, Kaiser Permanaente, General Tire & Rubber and one of the nation聮s largest ski areas.
o Nov. 4: Smart growth. Is there such a thing? If so, what does it mean for the citizens of Colorado? Will Fleissig, senior associate at CU-Boulder's Real Estate Center, will discuss growth-related issues facing Colorado.
Fleissig was the former director of planning for the City of Boulder. He joined the Real Estate Center a year ago and is responsible for the center's community assistance program.
In addition to his duties at the Center, Fleissig is a partner at Continuum, a development and venture capital company in Denver. Fleissig believes in-fill growth and new urbanism are two tools that could be used to implement smart growth.
Admission is free and open to the public. For more information contact the CU-Boulder Office of Community Relations at 492-8384.