Robert Justis, director of LSU’s Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute and a Marjory B. Ourso Center for Excellence in Teaching Professor in the Rucks Department of Management, was quoted in an Advocate article regarding the costs of creating and running a successful franchise. [MORE]

Charles D’Agostino, executive director of the LSU Louisiana Business & Technology Center, will serve as the feature presenter for the Association of University Research Parks Webinar to be held November 12, 2009. [MORE]

Areendam Chanda, who holds the John C. Hamilton Family Professorship for Developing Scholars in LSU’s Department of Economics, was quoted in a Shreveport Times article regarding the increase in Bossier City mobile homes during the recession. [MORE]

Mark Weaver, the Thomas H. Daigre Endowed Chair of Business Administration in LSU’s Rucks Department of Management, has been selected as the president-elect of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and will begin his term January 2010. [MORE]

Representatives from LSU’s Flores MBA Program are attending the National Black Pre-MBA Conference and Business School Recruitment Fair, which is being held today and tomorrow at the University of Houston. [MORE]

In a bit of a coincidence, the Louisiana Business & Technology Center celebrated its 21st anniversary and was presented the 2009 Economic Development Administration Excellence in Economic Development Award for Rural Economic Development last night. [MORE]

The LSU Flores MBAAA-Louisiana Chapter will hold its annual meeting Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at Enoteca Marcello’s Wine Bar & Café, located at 4205 Perkins Road in Southdowns Village Shopping Center. [MORE]

The Louisiana Small Business Development Center Technology Center at LSU, in partnership with the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at LSU, is teaming up with multiple local business development agencies to hold the 1st Annual Veterans Business Assistanceprogram Wednesday, November 11, 2009, from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Louisiana Technology Park, located at 7117 Florida Boulevard. [MORE]