Free and open to the public.

Third Annual Faith and Economics Lecture

This is going to be a great place for MBA’s to hear leading thought and discourse on how faith should inform economics!

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Also, if you’d like to hear more lectures on campus at the U of MN this semester that were sponsored by the MacLaurin Institute, I suggest you visit this page.

 As it turned out, we had close to 100 people show up at our lecture–including key business people from the community, undergraduate and MBA students. It was a very challenging and thought-provoking discussion.

Featured Speaker: Dr. David Miller, Yale University (Professor of Business Ethics and Executive Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture). In partnership with The MacLaurin Institute, this event will be the capstone for the semester and will likely prove to be very insightful for our professional careers, so put it on your calendars.  

We will also have other smaller events, including opportunities to gather with other students to pray, interact and develop relationships. We hope to see you this semester!

Carlson School of Management, 7:00 PM, room 1-147

Thanks to the kind willingness of Brad Dewing (Campus Pastor with Christian Student Fellowship), MBA students now have the opportunity to participate in a Bible study at Carlson. Brad is leading this group and we just finished a great fall semester of study. If you want to come in future semesters, drop an e-mail to Brad (heybrad@csf.net) or Jonathan (MBAFellowship@gmail.com) and they can answer your questions.

Featured Speaker: Pete Lackey, Campus Minister at the MacLaurin Institute. Topic: Plowing in Hope:  Business in God’s Future. 

As it turned out, we discussed with our speaker, Pete, various ideas around what Business should look like in view of God’s future. This included ideas like: creating Shalom (peace) in the work place, valuing employees, making strategic decisions in view of God’s eternity, etc. Thanks Pete!

MBA Christian Thought Lectures:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 2007 AT 7:00PM (CSOM 1-113):

This night was a fun time with others at Carlson–and we had some great thoughtful conversations, good food, and fellowship. 

Featured Speaker: Dr. L. J. “Sam” Helgerson, local business consultant as well as adjunct professor from Bethel University spoke to us on letting our faith inform our business and rest of our lives. We hope you can make next month’s speaker, as we’ll be learning more about how faith and business interact.

Come meet other Christian MBA students at Carlson and find out about up-coming events for MBA Christian Fellowship–ALL DURING YOUR EVENING CLASS BREAK! We’ll have some drinks and light food, so stop by to mingle for a few minutes before heading back to class. If your class usually takes an early or late break, it’s okay to mention to your professor that you have this event and see if your class can move the break in your class to be more conducive for you to attend. We hope to see you there!

Along with this topic, I just finished listening to a great speaker, Dennis Bakke, (you can listen to his thoughts HERE) who gives some great insights into work and serving God in business. If you check out the above link, you’ll get to hear Dennis’ presentation, but don’t turn it off when it gets to the question/answer time because it is very insightful. I was challenged to think and evaluate Christian leadership in the business world–and how I should make the most of my skills as a leader in the business community.

If you’re looking for some other interesting insights into business leadership and workplace interactions with faith, you can check out the Work Research Foundation.

I hope you’re encouraged and excited to go to work tomorrow!

The executive leadership team is off to a great start! We’re going to meet again in the next couple of weeks to plan events for this coming academic year.  If you’d like to come participate in praying and planning with us, please let me know: mbafellowship@gmail.com.