Supporting the Lam Family College of Business
The Lam Family College of Business is San Francisco’s public business school. We embrace the area’s rich diversity and provide access to professional success through high-quality teaching, innovative and relevant courses, discipline-based and pedagogical scholarships, and engagement with the academic and business communities.
Our commitment to sustainable business, diversity, social justice and global partnerships echoes our core philosophy of responsible leadership. We prepare students to succeed in an economy that is global in nature. As one of the top-ranked public universities, we have been recognized worldwide for our investments in diversity, social responsibility and visionary academics. We aspire to be one of the best public urban business schools by applying sustainability and ethical perspectives to our understanding of business practice, global leadership, innovation, the economy and society.
For more information about donating to the Lam Family College of Business, contact:
Sukhie Bal
Senior Director of Development for the Lam Family College of Business
Opening Doors in Accounting
I just want to make sure other students have that same opportunity that I did. I’ve been blessed in my life, and I want to help other people to be successful as well.
A Transformational $25 Million Gift Fueling Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Opportunity
Alum Chris Larsen (B.S., ’84), his wife Lyna Lam and Rippleworks Foundation partnered to generously donate $25 million to SFSU’s College of Business. The Chris Larsen and Lyna Lam Funds for the College of Business have inspired innovation, entrepreneurship and financial technology education. Read more about this gift, and about Chris’s journey from being the first in his family to attend college to one of the world’s most iconoclastic business leaders.
Read about the Larsen-Lam-Rippleworks giftLFCoB Funding Initiatives
The LFCoB aspires to be one of the best urban public business schools through ethical perspectives of business practice, global leadership and innovation.
Scholarships
Scholarships directly support students, helping them bridge gaps in financial aid, avoid debt and complete their education. Scholarships can also enable students to enrich their learning through pursuing opportunities such as professional conferences, research and internships. Donors may choose to contribute to an existing scholarship fund, create a new named endowed scholarship or form a new named expendable (annual) scholarship.
Bloomberg Terminals and Trading Room
The Bloomberg Terminals and Trading Room provides SFSU students an opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience learning how to develop investment strategies and make socially responsible stock trades. Support for the trading room raises the visibility of SFSU with the financial community, creates scholarships, generates ideas for faculty research and opens up professional job opportunities for our students.
Career Services and Professional Development Center
The Lam Family College of Business Career Services and Professional Development Center (CSPD) is a dynamic space supporting students’ career development.
Lam-Larsen Initiatives and Centers
The Lam-Larsen Initiatives and Centers is an innovative set of programs, research projects, workshops, speaker events and other activities is designed to have a transformational impact on the students, faculty and staff at the college and University. Many of these activities are interdisciplinary and are developed in partnership with businesses, industry/professional associations, nonprofits and local, state or federal government organizations.
Mentorship Program
The LFCoB Mentorship Program equips students with tools and skills for career success by pairing them with successful professionals for one-on-one mentoring and providing opportunities for students and alumni to expand their professional networks. The program empowers students to realize their full potential and create a successful future.
