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Thu, Oct 6, 7 PM
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
In conversation with Jim Ellis,
Vice-Dean, USC Marshall School of Business
A memoir/manifesto from the legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist, founder and owner of one of the world’s most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.
Co-presented by
USC Marshall School of Business, Alumni Association
Tue, Oct 11, 7 PM
ZÓCALO
“Fixing America’s
Immigration System”
Arguing that the United States can have both strict enforcement and robust immigration, one of the nation’s leading thinkers on immigration lays out her vision for reform.
Wed, Oct 19, 7 PM
DREAM BOOGIE:
The Triumph of
Sam Cooke
In conversation with Kit Rachlis, editor-in-chief, Los Angeles Magazine
A soulful biography of one of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time and an epic portrait of America during the turbulent and hopeful 50’s and 60’s.
Thu, Oct 20, 7 PM
Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People,
and the Environment
In conversation with
Tom Curwen, LA Times
Outdoors editor
A searching account of the current crisis over dams and the world’s water, exploring why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape.
Mon, Oct 24, 7 PM
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
In conversation with author/critic David L. Ulin
Winchester positions the
significance of the 1906 quake along the earth’s geological timeline, showing the effect it had on the rest of 20th century American history.
Presented by The Council of the Library Foundation and
sponsored by City National Bank
and KPMG LLP.
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Thu, Oct 6, 7 PM
Yvon Chouinard
Photo © Henry Iddon
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Yvon Chouinard is founder and owner of Patagonia, Inc., based in Ventura, California. He began in business by designing, manufacturing, and distributing rock climbing equipment in the late 1950s. His tinkering led to an improved ice axe that facilitated the French ice climbing technique and is the basis for modern ice axe design. In 1964 he produced his first mail order catalog, a one page mimeographed sheet, advising potential customers not to expect fast delivery during climbing season. In 2001, along with Craig Mathews, owner of West Yellowstone's Blue Ribbon Flies, he started 1% For The Planet, an alliance of businesses that contribute at least 1 percent of their annual revenues to groups on a list of researched and approved environmental organizations.
www.onepercentfortheplanet.org
Click here for more information about the important work Patagonia is doing to help the environment.
James G. Ellis
James G. Ellis brings a wealth of experience in many aspects of the business world. He has worked in corporate America, has worked in family-owned businesses, has been an entrepreneur, and has started his own businesses. He has been on the selling side and on the buying side of consumer product transactions, as well as company acquisition transactions. He has been a salesman, supervised a company sales force, and worked with independent sales representatives. He has worked for American companies, and for foreign-based organizations. He has been a manufacturer, a distributor, and a retailer. He has had real world experience, and he has had academic experience.
Mr. Ellis currently has a full time appointment to the Faculty of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, as a Professor in the Department of Marketing, where he has been since 1997. In July of 2004, he was named Vice Dean, External Relations, where he is responsible for planning and implementing executive education programs for corporate executives, as well as Development, Alumni Relations, Corporate Relations, and Marketing/Communications for The Marshall School of Business.
www.marshall.usc.edu/
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