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The Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business • Community—understanding and valuing people with diverse characteristics, perspectives, and lifestyles; empowering others to act; collaborating with and supporting others; resolving conflict; acknowledging others; embracing win-win thinking; promoting global awareness. • Creativity and critical thinking—challenging the status quo; solving problems using innovation and imagination; acknowledging and understanding that we are parts of God’s good creation; rediscovering our created potential; finding meaning in everything we do; integrating, analyzing, and embracing new ideas; exhibiting curiosity and adaptability; valuing multi- disciplinary approaches; thinking big. • Skills—making effective use of reason, argument, and evidence; nourishing discipline-related skills; engaging in research, communication, and self-expression; mastering the use of technology in business; demonstrating excellence. • Execution—accomplishing the task and modeling the way; applying the results of learning; serving others; being pro-active; being a change agent; increasing individual, business, and societal value; assessing, synthesizing, and evaluating; creating, designing, constructing, producing, developing, and inventing; nurturing others by inspiring, mentoring, and guiding; synergizing. The School encourages leadership development through coursework and co-curricular activities—including the Paul Cone Program in Leadership, which includes a yearly weekend orientation seminar, lectures and colloquium events for both campus and community, and a year-long team- focused competition. We are a diverse community of learners called to proclaim and enact God’s creativity, peace, and healing in the world through business and entrepreneurial activity. Our deepest motivation comes from a glimpse of God’s grace, an awareness of God’s creativity and the goodness of God’s creation, and the conviction that we must respond to God’s creativity and grace by fostering the flourishing of what divine love has made. We celebrate the human spirit—utilizing creativity to enrich both our own lives and those of others. Thus, we relish the process of innovation and transformation, even when it is demanding and difficult, because it allows us the extraordinary opportunity to participate in God’s creative and redemptive work in the world. Because we are called to lead, and to bring restoration and healing to a suffering world, our work—by its very nature—has the potential to be experienced as play. La Sierra University Undergraduate Bulletin School of Business Additional Opportunities Paul Cone Program in Leadership In honor of Paul Cone, the Zapara School has instituted a Paul Cone Program in Leadership. Among the components of the Program are • the Paul Cone Leadership Development seminar, which takes place at the beginning of each academic year, and which may feature elements including an introduction to the mission and values of the Zapara School, an overview of curricular elements and degree requirements, opportunities to discover and become involved in Enactus projects, intensive leadership training exercises, an orientation to the Cone Practicum, and micro-courses delivered by faculty members and guest lecturers • the Paul Cone Practicum in Leadership, a year-long team-building and leadership development exercise that provides each student the opportunity to compete, throughout the year, as a member of one of four teams, on fronts including grades, fundraising for the ZSB, a for-profit microbusiness, a not-for-profit enterprise, and the organization of ZSB cocurricular activities • the Paul Cone Lecture Series, which exposes Zapara School students and faculty members to guest speakers who exemplify Paul Cone’s commitment to academic excellence and creativity. Rent-a-Brain The ZSB’s consulting group, Rent-a-Brain, provides students and faculty members alike with valuable experience and significant growth opportunities. It serves business, labor, and community organizations by providing advice regarding management, marketing, finance, ethics, and other topics. Center for Philanthropy La Sierra University’s Center for Philanthropy is housed in the Zapara School of Business. The mission of the Center is to encourage the practice of effective philanthropic giving and fundraising and the integration of philanthropy into the mission of effective charitable and not-for-profit enterprises. It educates leaders who will create, implement, and promote innovative models of philanthropy in partnership with those who seek effective, long-lasting social change. As a contributor to La Sierra University’s mission of global service, it is a significant resource for students, faculty members, the philanthropic community, and the countless ordinary people it serves. 239