Professional Centers and Institutes

Center for Information Assurance

The Center for Information Assurance (CIA) at the Cal Poly Pomona College of Business Administration (CBA) provides advanced research and knowledge in audit, security and computer forensics. 

Center for Entprepreneurship and Innovation

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation was formally established at the College of Business Administration in May 1996. CEI seeks to foster entrepreneurship in both the local and global community; to provide increasing entrepreneurial opportunities for Cal Poly Pomona students; and to deliver innovative entrepreneurship courses to graduate, undergraduate, and extension students. It provides a dynamic combination of education, research, and outreach programs to address the developing needs of entrepreneurs and growth companies. Entrepreneurial ventures and emerging firms are a leading source of new jobs in the United States.

Center for Promotional Development

The purpose of the Cal Poly Pomona Center for Promotional Development is to assist future and current marketing mangagers with the acquisition of promotional startegy skills necessary to build and grow a successful business.  The center provides:

• Teach promotional stratgy at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
• Help marketing managers of local emerging businessess to grow their business using promotional strategy that includes sound research, planning, measurement, and evaluation.
• Provide Cal Poly Pomona graduate and undergraduate students with a sponsored classroom/practuicum experience in developing promotional strategy with a selected local emerging business.

Formerly the Center for Professional Sales Development, the Center name was changed in 1999 to the Center for Promotional Development. The current Center name reflects a broadening of the Center's mission. Mission scope has evolved from a sole focus on professional sales and sales management, to a comprehensive focus on the promotional mix.

The Center for Promotional Development is committed to working with students and marketing managers of emerging local businesses to help them acquire the promotional strategy skills necessary to build and grow a successful business.

Industrial Research Institute for Pacific Nations (IRIPAC)

The Industrial Research Institute for Pacific Nations is a nonprofit
organization engaged in industrial and trade development research with a focus on Pacific Rim nations. The Institute is administered as the international research division of the College of Business Administration. Designed to support the advanced study of international business and to provide specialized educational opportunities for management personnel involved in the Pacific marketplace, the program offers the generation and coordination of research projects for university faculty and students, management and economic development seminars directed at better understanding of those doing business in the Pacific Rim, establishment of a reference and resource center, and publication of research papers.

The Real Estate Research Council of Southern California (RERC)

The Real Estate Research Council of Southern California is the oldest nonprofit
real estate data organization in the United States. Founded in 1939, the RERC produces a quarterly publication, The Real Estate and Construction Report, which includes data on the economy and real estate markets in the seven urban Southern California counties, and presents the report at a quarterly luncheon. The senior real estate faculty direct students who participate in the data gathering and analysis for the preparation of the quarterly report. Members of the RERC include major development companies, financial institutions, appraisers, investors, mortgage bankers, and other firms and individuals interested in Southern California real estate. RERC is coordinated by faculty in the Finance, Real Estate, and Law Department.