SLU Speaker Series - Andrew Puzder

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Speaker Series on Economic Policy The Show-Me Institute and John Cook School of Business present:

Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why Government Doesn't Understand It

presented by Andrew Puzder

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

5:30 p.m. Reception

6:00 p.m. Presentation

Anheuser-Busch Auditorium in John and Lucy Cook Hall at Lindell Boulevard and Spring Avenue

About the Speaker:

Andrew Puzder was named CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. in 2000. When he took that position, CKE was faced with serious financial and operational issues. Puzder is credited with turning around both the Hardee's brand and CKE, allowing the company first to avoid bankruptcy and then become profitable. By the end of the last decade, consumers rated Hardee's and Carl's Jr. among the industry leaders with respect to taste and flavor of food, quality of ingredients, friendliness and courtesy. By avoiding bankruptcy, Puzder secured and protected the jobs of the approximately 70,000 people the Company and its franchisees employ, as well as the businesses its franchisees own. Puzder has been a vigorous advocate for economic growth and job creation. He believes that government can create jobs and increase its revenue by lightening the burden on business. Puzder earned a Juris Doctorate in 1978 from Washington University School of Law.