Pacific Business Center Program
Honolulu, HAWAII — The ‘Ama’ (outrigger) Initiative has been launched by the Pacific Business Center Program (PBCP) via its Multi-Purpose Business Incubator (MPBI) project. As a metaphor, the Ama is used as an economic outrigger to support and prevent the capsizing of Hawaii’s primary economic ship...
Honolulu, HI — The Hawaii 2018 Global Breadfruit, Technology & Health Summit being hosted by the University of Hawaii Pacific Business Center Program (PBCP) will be held at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Lai’e, Oahu, Hawai’i, October 15-17.
Inaugurated in 2016, it is the third consecutive...

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