Posted on: Monday, August 1, 2005
Coming events
Advertiser Staff
BEST BETS
Fons Trompenaars — described variously as "one of the top five management consultants" globally or the "World's Greatest Culture Guru" whose clients include the likes of Shell Oil Corp., Heineken, Motorola, General Motors and Nike — will deliver the 2005 N.H. Paul Chung Memorial Lecture Friday at the University of Hawai'i. The annual lecture, featuring experts in international management, honors Paul Chung, founder of the Pacific Asian Management Institute at the UH College of Business. Trompenaars is author of "Riding the Waves of Culture and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century," an international best-seller. He will speak on "How Eastern Values are Transforming Western Business Practices — Leveraging Cross-Cultural Competence for Business Performance." The lecture, open to the public, is scheduled for noon (registration, 11:30 a.m.) Friday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Tropics Showroom. Fee. Information: 956-8041; or www.pami .hawaii.edu.
Aquaculture will be the focus of a monthlong Community Outreach Series, scheduled 6:30 p.m. Thursdays during August by the Hanauma Bay Education Program. The free discussions will be held in the Education Center theater. For Information and specifics on the weekly programs: 397-5840 or hanauma @hawaii.edu.
TODAY
An economic development specialist from the U.S. Small Business Administration will provide the latest information on opportunities offered by SBA programs and services for small-business owners and entrepreneurs today, Aug. 8 and Aug. 15 at the state's Business Action Center. The event, "SBA TALK STORY AT THE BUSINESS ACTION CENTER," is scheduled 10 a.m.-1 p.m. today and tomorrow at 1130 N. Nimitz Highway, Suite A-220. Information: 541-2990.
THURSDAY
How to do business in Asia will be the topic of a speech Thursday by Charles Steilen, Hawai'i Pacific University professor of international marketing. He speaks to the noon-1:30 p.m. luncheon meeting of the Exchange Club of Downtown Honolulu. Fee. Location: Ed Kemper, 524-0330.
SATURDAY
"Bloom," a wine-tasting and networking fundraiser for the HAWAI'I WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTER, will be held 2-6 p.m. Saturday at the Armour Gallery and Gardens, 47-754 Lama'ula Road, Kane'ohe. Also: panel discussion led by Crystal Rose, partner in the law firm of Bays, Deaver, Lung, Rose & Baba and Pacific Business News' Businesswoman of the Year, 2005; a mini-wine seminar, silent auction and gallery sale. Fee. Information: 526-1001.
Free HOME NETWORKING DEMO DAY, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Circuit City, Pearl City, with demonstrations of home networking technologies (linking devices to share files, hard drives, printers and Internet connections), and of high-speed Internet access and broadband telephone service from Vonage.
"DESIGNING EFFECTIVE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS," a non-credit workshop offered by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Outreach College/Pacific New Media, will be offered 9 a.m.-noon Saturday. The workshop, led by Richard Ma, veteran producer of videos and multimedia presentations, will illustrate how to design, organize and enhance PowerPoint presentations with graphic elements, special effects and photos. Prerequisite: A basic knowledge of PowerPoinit. The workshop will be held in Yukiyoshi Room (room 012) in Krauss Hall, on the Manoa campus. Information: 956-9883.
UPCOMING
The last in this summer's "EMPLOYMENT LAW 2005 FOR TECH COMPANIES" ThinkTech Law Series, sponsored by ThinkTechHawaii and Pacific New Media in conjunction with the University of Hawai'i's William Richardson School of Law, will cover minimizing the risk of dealing with difficult employees — even the possible eventuality of firing them. The instructor is Richard Rand, of Torkildson, Katz, Fonseca, Moore and Hetherington. The session is scheduled 5:15-7:15 p.m. Aug. 9 in the UH Pacific New Media downtown facilities on the lower level of Pioneer Plaza. Small fee. Information: 956-8244.
How, aided by declines in the cost of telecommunications and advances in information technologies, the globalization of service and sales operations is affecting employment of millions of people worldwide, will be the focus of a presentation Aug. 10, sponsored by the Industrial Relations Research Association. Speaking on "THE GLOBALIZATION OF SERVICE WORK," will be professor Rosemary Batt, who will outline an international comparative study of the call center industry, comparing employment practices in the U.S. and Europe to offshore locations such as India and the Philippines. The luncheon presentation is planned from 11:30 a.m. registration at the Ala Moana Hotel, Carnation Room. Fee; nonmembers welcome. Register by Thursday: Deborah Wong, 956-8132.
Business meetings of general interest are listed in the "Coming Events" column each Monday. Submit notices at least two weeks in advance: Business Events, Business Section, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; fax to 525-6763; or e-mail business @honoluluadvertiser.com. (For e-mailed releases, please include information in the body of the message, not in an attachment.)
