Raised over $1 Billion in debt and equity.
Successfully sold three public companies.

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Lew can toss eight out of ten shrimp into a chef's hat at Benihana.

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American College of Public Directors

The One Day MBA is written from the viewpoint of a successful public company CEO and Award-Winning Business Professor. It provides valuable, insightful, and highly beneficial business information to both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs looking to take their skills to the next level. The book is for owners, founders, executives, and for anyone looking to drive their career forward, conduct business more successfully, and develop new skills. It details how a successful CEO thinks, sharing the specific tools and perspectives that helped the author create over $1 Billion in shareholder value. In addition, the author has been a board member for numerous public companies, including the Benihana and PictureTel Corporations. The concepts, lessons, and stories are all practical and can be implemented immediately after reading. These same insights have led to the creation of uber growth strategies, as well as helped students become distinguished leaders who demonstrate integrity and intellect in the business world. By taking an entrepreneurial approach to problem solving, readers will learn how to identify opportunities, anticipate, and alleviate problems in all facets of business. The Content includes•The Entrepreneurial Mindset - Whether you own your business or own your job, it’s critical to know the difference between what is important and what is interesting, and how to stay focused on the right stuff.•Migrating from Management to Leadership – Managers focus on systems, processes, and repeatability while leaders are focused on people and vision. Knowing when to manage and when to lead is what creates true leaders.•The Balanced Scorecard – This is one of the best tools to vet ideas and initiatives to see their impact, as well as all the resources needed to implement them. It’s also the best way to communicate the company’s vision and tasks throughout the organization.•Stop Selling, Create Buyers – Selling drives the price down, as opposed to creating desire and buyers, which results in holding price and building value.•The French Fry Rule – This is one you must read on your own. It’s the best lesson on discipline, EVER!This book reads more like a novel, than a business book. Each lesson is ready to use and will make an impact immediately. 

The One Day MBA: The Critical Stuff They Don't Teach In Business School

Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive university offering 60 major programs, 55 minor undergraduate degrees and programs. The Graduate Division offers 39 master’s degree programs and one education doctorate, one juris doctorate and 10 credential programs. 
 
Founded in 1911, LMU is ranked third in “Best Regional Universities (West)” by U.S. News and World Report. LMU is the largest Jesuit Catholic university for undergraduates on the West Coast, with more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. The state-of-the-art The William H. Hannon Library rates among the 20 best in the country according to The Princeton Review’s guide to “The Best 378 Colleges,” 2014. Bloomberg Businessweek ranks LMU sixth in the nation and third in the West in its 2013 Part-Time MBA rankings.

Loyola Marymount University

You can contact Lewis Jaffe at Lewis.Jaffe@lmu.edu.

Lew Jaffe has guest lectured at numerous major Universities, speaking at Private Equity/Venture Capital and various industry conferences and provide some consulting to companies in distress that require a change in strategy, operational improvement and financial restructuring. He is a proven operating executive with significant turnaround and growth experience, successful with generating profits and creating shareholder value in both public and private companies by aligning strategies with customer and market demands, bringing existing products to new markets and refining offerings to existing markets. He is experienced in creating sales and margin growth organically and through M&A activities, and exploiting synergies. Currently, Lew sits on the Board of Directors of Benihana Corporation, Bond Laboratories and York Telecom.

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Entrepreneurship Senior Lecturer, College of Business Administration

Managing the 7 C's

Lew Jaffe is a former CEO and Clinical Professor, he works with companies as a coach, consultant and a certified public company director. He is a nationally recognized public speaker on a wide range of topics including Driving Success, Management and Leadership as well as Media and Telecommunications and Unified Communications.-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/youtube/ -- Create animated videos and animated presentations for free.  PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch.  Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly with PowToon, without the cost or hassle other professional animation services require.

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La Salle University

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