Courtesy of BYU Idaho Student Media

As many of you know, Jeff Sandefer founder of Acton MBA and Sandefer Capital was on campus this past week! We at CEO would like to express our gratitude for his willingness to come and impart some of his wisdom on the students of BYU-Idaho.

We could write a long write up on what Jeff spoke about but Leslie Gallardo from the BYU-Idaho Student Media did a great job for us! Click here to learn more about what Jeff spoke to the students about. Also, if you missed his speech, it should be available via a video in the library soon. We would highly recommend that you take the time to think about and apply what Jeff taught us about "Creating a Life of Meaning". His insight was fantastic and his advise was very meaningful. Additionally, we will be having a number of other speakers this semester, so come to our weekly meetings on Thursdays at 2pm in Smith 265.

Jeff Sandefer lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a teacher. Named by Business Week as one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States, he has accomplished much. Please join CEO on Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 2pm in the Kirkham Auditorium on the BYU-Idaho campus. 

As an entrepreneur, Jeff founded his first successful business at age 16.  His third business, Sandefer Offshore, started at age 27, returned $500 million in profits on a million dollar investment -- in less than four years. Recently he sold Sandefer Capital Partners, an oil and gas investment firm that held several billion dollars in assets.

Business may be his day job, but Jeff’s passion is teaching. While at the University of Texas, students awarded Jeff with the school’s Outstanding Teacher five times and he was selected  by BusinessWeek as one the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States.

Eight years ago Jeff and a group of successful entrepreneur-teachers started the Acton School of Business, named after Lord Acton, the Victorian scholar of freedom. 

The school’s grueling 100-hour a week, one year MBA program has won numerous awards, including having the Princeton Review – the gold standard for business school rankings – name Acton’s students as the “most competitive” MBA’s in the nation and rank its faculty in the top three in the country – above Harvard, Stanford and Wharton.

Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he has served for over a decade on the school’s governing committees; and serves on a number of boards, most targeted in defense of America’s freedoms. 

Welcome to a new semester! We hope you are settling in and gearing up for what we have in store for you this semester. We have a number of service projects, guest speakers, and other great opportunities for you to get involved. Please join us this semester in SMITH room 265 Every Thursday at 2pm!!

Here at BYU-Idaho, we have taken the challenge and are working to finalize a service project for the end of this week. The CEO organization will be holding a workshop of sorts for the local school children helping them understand the process by which a product is built and the cost associated with building it.

This week, November 15 - 21st has been deemed Global Entrepreneurship Week. The Kauffman foundation, the largest non-profit organization in the pursuit of entrepreneurial support globally has created a week that is desiged to promote and highlight the service and incredible innovations of entrepreneurs' worldwide.

Here at BYU-Idaho, we have taken the challenge and are working to finalize a service project for the end of this week. The CEO organization will be holding a workshop of sorts for the local school children helping them understand the process by which a product is built and the cost associated with building it. We will be using a innovative software developed by the Acton MBA program to teach their MBA students one this to look for when producing a new product. The program, RoboRush, is a online game for what seems to be little children although its insight is powerful while engaging and fun for the children. We are very hopeful that this project will work out. Click here for additional information about Global Entrepreneurship Week. For More on CEO and our upcoming service project, please check back soon. Additionally, you can join us on Facebook for continuous updates.

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REXBURG — Now citizens can vote not just for politicians, but also to help "save" the Romance Theatre.

The Rexburg theater has been nominated for Hampton Hotels' Save-A-Landmark program in 2011.

The voting process is already under way at www.hamptonlandmarks.com and will continue through Nov. 30. The prize is $30,000, which will go to the restoration of the winning structure.

In Idaho, the Romance is competing against the Potato Museum in Blackfoot and the Rock Creek Station, a cabin on the historic Oregon Trail near Twin Falls.

Winners will be announced the first week in December, just in time to coincide with International Volunteerism Day.

Restoration of the historic theater is already under way with a Saving America's Treasures grant.

The goal is to restore the facade and interior to its original look.

Local Romance Theater Committee members say the venue is planned as a focal point for the performing arts in the upper valley.

The Romance was built in 1917 and was originally known as the Rex in the days of vaudeville and silent films. It was remodeled and renamed in 1935 and began showing movies with sound.

After the Teton Dam broke in 1976 and flooded the theater along with the town, it was remodeled once again and became known as the Westwood Theater.

Later, with only a single screen competing with newer multiplex theaters, the Westwood closed in 2001.

The city bought it in 2005, and restoration has been picking up the pace since then.

The restoration committee hopes that citizens will help the theater gain more votes than a cabin or potato museum.

Click here for updated information

Posted: Friday, November 5, 2010 11:21 pm | Updated: 8:21 am, Mon Nov 8, 2010.

JOSEPH LAW jlaw@uvsj.com

So you might be asking yourself, what is this LinkedIn thing and why would I ever want to join another social networking website? The real question is why have you not join LinkedIn?

Linkedin is a professional network unlike sites such as Facebook and MySpace whose sole purpose is to connect friends and acquittance's to share photos and experiences. LinkedIn on the other hand is also designed to bring people together but for a much more meaningful purpose. That purpose, networking. LinkedIn allows you to upload your resume, join groups, contact old associates and current ones, classmates and others for the purpose to building a "professional network". This network can become your holy grail of contacts as you work to build it bigger and bigger over the years.

In addition, one great feature is that you can have former employers, co-workers, friends and professors recommend you. Think about it this way, when you are being considered for a new job, your future employer will turn to google.com to learn a little more then maybe was presented in the interview. What would you like them to see, your Facebook page and the stupid and meaningless rants you have posted and pictures of you doing something dumb or a well polished individual with great recommendations and work experience?

I think you know the answer. There are a million other reason to join LinkedIn if you haven't already. If you have, it is a great time to go and update your page. Use LinkedIn for what it is worth, finding the people who mean the most to you and networking with them. Trust me, this is one site you want to join!