Meet NickCarbonaro.

Nicholas J. Carbonaro is a Professor of Business Administration & Economics at Long Beach City College, where he teaches Introduction to Business (GBUS 5), Personal Finance (GBUS 10), and Digital and Social Media (GBUS 25).

In the private sector, Nick spent a decade in operations management at Costco Wholesale, serving as a Supervisor from June 2005 to July 2015. He trained about 10 new employees a year with 92% retention, led department scheduling, production planning and monthly inventory, and took part in bi-annual inventory analysis of 4,000+ SKUs at a store with $150M+ in net sales. Earlier private-sector internships included Fox Sports, as a music intern in 2007, and Octagon, on the Home Depot College GameDay event in 2006.

In the public sector, he has built a career in community college teaching at Long Beach City College, El Camino College and Cerritos College. He taught at LBCC as an adjunct from 2013 to 2015, has been full-time faculty since 2015, and was fully tenured in 2019. He has served on educational, nonprofit and private-sector advisory boards.

LBCC is a second home for the Carbonaro family: his father and grandmother both worked at the college, his parents met on campus, and all three Carbonaro siblings attended LBCC.

He authored Personal Finance (GBUS 10), an original textbook published by Top Hat and now in its second edition, and, as lead faculty member, got it approved as a general-education math course for CSU transfer and as a math requirement for LBCC’s associate degree. He also created Digital and Social Media (GBUS 25). He built the first Active Learning Smart Classroom at LBCC with a Perkins grant.

He co-advises the LBCC Business Club with Dr. Sandra O’Toole and has mentored in the Faculty Diversity Internship Program since 2021, where several of his mentees have gone on to teaching positions. He has also served on multiple hiring committees.