{"id":3312,"date":"2025-09-11T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.laverne.edu\/news\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:29:40","slug":"la-verne-integrated-business-program-launches-14th-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.laverne.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/11\/la-verne-integrated-business-program-launches-14th-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"La Verne Integrated Business Program launches 14th cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"

The College of Business Integrated Business Program (IBP) is a unique interdisciplinary program that combines required upper-level business courses with founding and running a real business.\u00a0The IBP provides students with practical business experience, a strong grounding in business principles, and immersion in civic and community engagement<\/a> as foundational to sound business practice.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t

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  • raised $455,338 for local nonprofits<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
  • brought in total revenues of $1,059,681.<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    • involved 141 student teams totaling 1,110 students<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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      • contributed to 143 charities<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\n

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        Undergraduate business majors in the program take finance, management, marketing, and entrepreneurship in a four-class, semester-long block. This immersive program enables students to form a company, develop a product, create a business plan, secure a bank loan, and sell their product. All proceeds are donated to charities<\/strong> such as the American Cancer Society, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the University of La Verne Veterans Center.<\/p>\n

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        IBP Charity Presentation<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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        Join us in Campus Center Ballroom A from 3:30-5pm to see the teams' charity check presentations. Please RSVP to Professor Rick Hasse (rhasse@laverne.edu) and mark your calendar for the charity check presentation!<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\n

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