Entrepreneurs Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities

Published: August 30, 2010

UCLA offers 3rd annual entrepreneurs bootcamp for veterans with disabilities
By Neha Patil July 09, 2010 Category: Campus News
For the third consecutive year, the UCLA Anderson School of Management is joining a select group of business schools to offer the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV).

The summer program, which runs from July 10 to 18 at UCLA Anderson, provides education and training in entrepreneurship and small business management free of cost to military personnel injured in the line of duty. The program is designed to help participants learn essential skills that will help them start, grow and successfully manage entrepreneurial ventures.

“It’s a privilege to work with disabled American veterans for the third year,” said Judy Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson and the school’s John E. Anderson Professor of Management. “UCLA Anderson’s expertise in entrepreneurship is a way for us to provide resources to veterans who have sacrificed so much on behalf of the nation and who want to realize their own business dreams and desires to support their families and communities.”

The EBV was introduced by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in 2007. The following year, the EBV Consortium was launched as a national partnership with UCLA Anderson, Florida State University’s College of Business and the Mays Business School at Texas A&M. Purdue University joined the consortium in 2009, and the University of Connecticut was added in 2010.

The EBV is designed around two primary objectives. The first focuses on practical training in new venture creation and growth, including information on programs and opportunities specific to disabled veterans and the businesses they own. The second focuses on establishing a support structure for graduates of the program.

The UCLA Anderson EBV program, which is administered by the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, is divided into three distinct phases. Students develop initial concepts during the online component of the program. They then participate in experiential workshops and in-class learning at UCLA. Finally, they receive ongoing support and mentorship from UCLA Anderson faculty and alumni in the year following the residential component.

Thanks to the generous support of corporate sponsors and private individuals, the entire program — including tuition, travel and accommodations — is offered at no cost to the veterans.

“The response that we have received to the EBV program has been tremendous,” said Elaine Hagan, executive director of UCLA’s Price Center. “We look forward to providing this year’s class with an unparalleled learning experience and in continuing to work with them as they become members of the EBV alumni network, which will soon include over 300 participants across the consortium.”

The Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the UCLA Anderson School of Management is an internationally recognized leader in entrepreneurial education and research. With a distinguished faculty as its cornerstone, the center oversees activities that advance the theory and practice of entrepreneurship as well as the related fields of technology and innovation, venture capital and private equity, and social enterprise. Known for the impact of its outreach programs, the Price Center fosters a spirit of innovation in individuals, enhances the managerial capacity of organizations, and prepares entrepreneurial leaders who will provide significant, sustainable and economic value to society.

The UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. Faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in M.B.A., fully-employed M.B.A., executive M.B.A., UCLA-NUS Global Executive M.B.A., master of financial engineering and doctoral programs and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a worldwide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.

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America Needs More Marine Corps Values

Published: August 30, 2010

National Marine Corps Business Network

America Needs More Marine Corps Values
By Mark Shields

A half a century ago, I spent the longest 13 weeks of my life at an out-of-the-way place called Parris Island, S.C., then and now the home of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

We were strangers who arrived there in the middle of the night and were immediately relieved of all our civilian clothing and possessions — including our hair. Standing there confused, apprehensive and bald, I remember asking myself over and over: What the hell am I doing here?

Then silently appeared in our midst a man in a starched uniform and polished boots brimming with self-confidence and a sense of command. This was the Marine drill instructor, the DI, who did not conceal his disgust with what he saw in us. I can still hear him that we were the sorriest collection of misfits and rejects he or anyone else had ever seen.

What followed was 90 days of splendid misery. Civilian habits, speech and attitude were marched and drilled and driven out of us. The DI was relentlessly democratic. He treated everyone on our platoon, 189, with equal contempt while double-timing us 12 hours a day from mess duty to the rifle range and back. He used his personal term of endearment to remind us, “Maggot, remember, you volunteered to be here.”

Somehow after more than three months of no Cokes, no beer, no TV and not even a day off, the DI, by then our Ultimate Authority Figure, reluctantly conceded that just possibly, maybe someday, we might actually be Marines. The combination of joy, relief and pride was unmatched.

I was not a great Marine. I never saw combat. I got a lot more from the Marines than the Marines got from me. But I believe fervently that this nation today needs the values of the Marine Corps as much as the nation needs the Marine Corps.

Of course, honor, courage and commitment are always in short supply. But the Marines teach personal responsibility and accountability by example, that any chain is only as strong as the weakest individual link. As a unit, we are stronger working together than the individual members can separately be.

Marines take care of their own — and they take care of their fellow Marines before themselves. The well-being of the country and of the Corps is more important than our individual well-being.

This may best be stated in the hard-and-fast Marine rule: “Officers eat last.” The Marine officer does not eat until after his subordinates for whom he is responsible — the corporals and privates — have been fed. Marines live by the rule that loyalty goes both up and down the chain of command. Would not our country be a more just and human place if the brass of Wall Street and Washington and executive suites believed that “officers eat last”?

The Marine ethic emphasizes responsibility to duty and responsibility to others before self. This is the very opposite of the unbridled individualism that elevates profit and personal comfort to high virtues. The selfish and self-centered CEO or senator who disregards and discards his loyal “troops” would be shunned in the Corps.

Civilian Americans must understand that the greatest civil rights victories have been won by the Marines and the U.S. military, the most successfully integrated sector of our national life. Why? No racial reference and no racial discrimination. The first time I ever slept in the same quarters with African-Americans or Latinos — or took orders from them — was as a private in the Marines Corps.

Yes, America really does need more Marine values and influence.

A Patriotic Vision for America & Your Business

Published: August 29, 2010

Tori and I are just two American Christians that are trying to do something meaningful for others. HirePatriots.com is an expression of that desire. It helps every person in every community that it flourishes, particularly those that participate in the program: Military, vets, their families, residents, widows, older veterans, small businesses and large. HirePatriots stimulates the local economy and makes life better for everyone in it.

HirePatriots also helps America. When vets take jobs at local civilian homes, a synergy is created almost every time. Meeting our wonderful men and women who voluntarily serve in the US Military has a profound effect upon people. They get to know and appreciate these dear patriots. It inspires patriotism and a deep, sincere regard for those that defend our country and its founding principles across the earth. – Hire Patriots makes America a better place for us and for future generations.

We need your help

We have taken HirePatriots thus far, at a personal cost and virtually every waking minute of our lives for the last 7 years. — My hope and Tori’s is: With our new plan and the great American patriots that are joining us with their own HP websites and as supporters, we can accomplish far more than what we have so far.

We have used our talents to the best of our abilities. Now we need people like you to see the vision, see your place in it and to help us move forward.

You have come aboard our patriotic ship by divine providence, we believe. It is our earnest conviction that God does love and desires to bless our country. And just as we have been chosen to participate in helping America and its citizens, you have been too.

You have abilities, passion, networks, and vision will add tremendously to our unified efforts.
We encourage each of you to use this wonderful program to benefit your region and to increase your business.

Our strength comes from the Lord and his promises. These are 3 Proverbs that help direct us and give us courage to continue:

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; but, you destroy yourself when you are cruel. Prov. 11:17
Blessed are those that help the poor. Prov. 14:20
It is possible to give freely and become wealthy. Prov. 14:24

Doing good deeds is a reward in itself; but, it is also our moral responsibility to provide for our family and those that we love. This requires income. – What we are is a group of concerned Americans, who are dedicated to helping others, especially veterans. But we are also American businesspeople. – So we are creating a means for us to help our society while making profits to support ourselves and others.

Our simple business plan is to establish HirePatriots.com websites across the country: Thus greatly increasing our number of visitors and at the same time increasing the value to businesses who advertise on our websites. – Working together, we can all help eachother and ourselves.
Social Entrepreneurism

Based on 7 years of proof, Tori and I are convinced that each of us can find at least 100 advertisers in our regions that will proudly support our cause, especially because doing so will promote their brand and increase their profits. – And our web team is increasing our SEO and creating more advertising options so that we can increase our bottom lines and our sponsors’.

The only critical step for us to accomplish this is to get the One Day job board going in your region. – This is not difficult, nor is it time consuming. – Most US residents love the idea of hiring local troops and vets. And certainly, troops and vets will flock to our sites when these jobs are posted. – So all we have to do is to let them know that HirePatriots exists. – One Day jobs are the wind that fills our sails and propels our program.

Once your job board is populated and being visited regularly, companies will begin posting jobs on your local board too. Your site will become vibrant with constant, daily visits and activity. – And that is what will attract advertisers and make you profits. – Thus this promise in Proverbs will be fulfilled: “It is possible to give freely and become wealthy.” Prov. 14:24

Leadership

Because Tori and I have been working diligently on HirePatriots for years, we know what has worked and what has not. And we have a clear idea of what is necessary in order to make HirePatriots explode in your region. And we are at your constant service to assist you in every way that we can.

However, all of you have talent, knowledge, and experience and business acumen. We do not want to interfere with you using these abilities. In fact, we strongly encourage you to take responsibility for the success of our mutual endeavor. We need you.

We do not see HirePatriots as something we own. It is yours too. Please take ownership and use all of your talents and abilities and creativity to propel us to greater success.

Our Vision

We want to see every state have its own HirePatriots website. We want to see your job boards growing and helping more and more people. We want to see your profits increase and for you to set an example for others who join us. We want our website to be the one of the most popular websites in America. We want to see you on national TV, radio and Press. We want HirePatriots to be a success for you personally and for all Americans.

Mark and Tori Baird

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