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Jane Pak currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Los Angeles Chapter (NAWBO-LA) which serves over half a million women business owners who generate more than $126 billion in revenues and employ over 677,000 people. In her spare time, Jane is an Executive MBA student at the USC Marshall School of Business. With nearly 15 years experience in multiple level government and private sector strategic alliances, Jane specializes in organizational transition and culture shift-management.

Known mostly for her “challenge-the-status-quo” approach, Jane is committed to aligning good causes with their greatest ability to be effective. An ardent believer in common sense for the greater good, Jane approaches the non-profit concept, first, as a mission-driven establishment – sometimes with the proverbial stick with a carrot and other times with just the stick.

Blog Entries by Jane Pak

Differentiated Dentists

(0) Comments | Posted May 29, 2012 | 1:05 PM

My general rule when asked for expert advice is to go to experts as I define them to be. If you look around, you will find many purported experts on many things such as witnessing, flame throwing and even consulting (which seems redundant, but I suppose you could consult without...

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Why Every (Enlightened) Chief Executive Needs a Chief of Staff

(0) Comments | Posted July 18, 2011 | 4:30 PM

All organizations are complex organisms, in that the sum of the entire unit is comprised of multiple sub-units that may not be entirely reliant upon one another, but their state effects the whole and they are ever changing and evolving because, at the heart of it all - they are...

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On Sunk Costs and Love

(2) Comments | Posted May 3, 2011 | 2:12 PM

Invariably, the best professors in any field can take even the most mundane subject matter and make it interesting by applying business concepts to real life scenarios (as I do in my earlier blog post). The most engaging lectures will draw parallels between monotonously technical subject matter and...

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Finding Fido

(0) Comments | Posted October 4, 2010 | 1:45 PM

At certain times of the day, usually in the early AM, I'll go out on my balcony and watch people walk by. Some are walking just to walk and some are dutifully walking their dogs. As I hope we all do, I aspire to see the things we often miss...

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Pak's Co-Efficient of Sketchiness

(0) Comments | Posted July 1, 2010 | 1:55 PM

If you're anything like me -- a moderately enlightened, increasingly curious individual who understands the world around her based on context and corresponding frames of reference -- then you will appreciate how I, a NON-math inclined person, would begin the arduous preparatory task of 9 months of heavy quantitative MBA...

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The Art of Persuasion

(4) Comments | Posted April 5, 2010 | 10:59 AM

I recently spoke to a group of first year MBA students at USC Marshall School of Business. Being a top tier school, the students I had the pleasure of addressing were bright, educated and talented. As you can imagine, I rightfully assumed these were an intelligent group with the best...

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Women's Business

(4) Comments | Posted March 29, 2010 | 5:12 PM

Picture this: you walk into a room with about 1,000 people and before you can start looking for someone you know - you instantly see people you've heard of or read about. To your left is the most powerful executive recruiter in the world, Caroline Nahas of Korn Ferry International...

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