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Click below to see recent news coverage of student division winners from 2008 and 2009.
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Yavuz Receives Kauffman Fellowship Isil Yavuz, Carlson PhD candidate, was recently awarded the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship for her
dissertation titled "The 'Outsider' Entrepreneurs: The Role of Founders'
Immigrant Status in the Internationalization of New Ventures in High
Technology Industries." The annual competition awards
grants of $20,000 each to support
dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship.
"In my dissertation I examine whether and how early internationalization
of high technology new ventures is affected by their founders' immigrant
status, and the mediating role of new venture resource configurations
and sources of financing in this relationship," says Yavuz. "I also
examine the outcome of new ventures' early internationalization for firm
survival for both immigrant and non-immigrant founded new ventures." Yavuz also received the McNamara Fellowship in 2010. |
Bhawe Receives Grad School Fellowship
Nachiket Bhawe, Carlson PhD candidate with an emphasis in entrepreneurship research has received a Graduate School dissertation
fellowship for the 2010/11 academic year. In addition to developing a class on technology commercialization, he has done research on the sequence of accumulating resources, market entry timing and global social entrepreneurship. Bhawe was also selected as a Kauffman Dissertation Fellow in 2009. His dissertation is entitled, Horse before the Cart: Does the Sequence in which
Entrepreneurs Choose Resource Partners Matter? Evidence from the
Bio-pharmaceutical Industry.
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Entrepreneurial Alumni Featured in Carlson Magazine |
State Farm and Alumni Board Assist Student Entrepreneurs
Through the sponsorship of State Farm Insurance and the support of their alumni advisory board, this year's Entrepreneurship in Action class launched two startup businesses during 2010. Pictured with their odor- absorbing "smart" duffel bags are Bruce Thomson, Craig Levinsohn, Libby Forbes Utter, Mark Paper, Joe Schierl, Joan Roissum and Missy Youmans. See product video. |
Culver Wraps up Inspiring Year for Entre Club
What if you opened a new restaurant and nobody showed up? Craig Culver shared free butter burgers and his lessons from struggling to find the right formula before expanding to 400+ restaurants across 17 states. Craig's talk punctuated an inspiring year of more than 30 guest speakers to the club, including Mark Cuban, Robert Stephens, Kieran Folliard, Bahram Akradi and Chris Eilers.
At their annual CEO Dinner in April, the club selected Chris Eilers, CEO of Dunn Bros Coffee, as their Speaker of the Year. |
BizPitch Winners Track Down $500
2010 BizPitch Winners & Judges | Undergraduate entrepreneurship students Anna DeeBower and Mike Wesely won the grand prize at the 5th annual BizPitch contest. Their idea for an RFID-tracking device to be affixed to hunting arrows would reduce time spent searching for lost arrows and injured deer. Judges Ann Ulrich, Jesse Bergland, Caryl Abdo, Roy Wetterstrom and Scott Litman provided advice to the 8 finalist presenters following their 90-second elevator pitches. This annual competition encourages students to step forward with new business ideas that enable them to apply their entrepreneurship education.
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Entrepreneurship Fast Facts 2010
4th Largest Major 10 MBA Courses 9 Undergraduate Courses 1,331 Enrollment 18 Interns 27 Mentors 18 Entrepreneurs in Residence 10 Businesses Formed 95 Student Entrepreneurs Advised 13 Articles Published 29 Papers Presented 5 Research Awards 2008, 2009 Honorable Mention in Princeton Review Rankings
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Holmes Center Advisory Board
Robert Buuck Judy Corson Gary Holmes Tim Kraskey Joy Lindsay Dan Mallin Dileep Rao Prof. Harry Sapienza Prof. Myles Shaver Lloyd Sigel John Stavig Roy Wetterstrom Prof. Shaker Zahra
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Thank You Holmes Center Benefactors
Floyd
Adelman
Anonymous
Alumnus Selemon Asfaw Tom Auth
Jesse
Bergland
Norman
Bjornnes
Robert
Buuck
Buuck Foundation Laura Carter Judy
Corson
Deluxe Corp. Foundation
Tim & Val
Doherty Geoff Dutton John
Fesler
David Frauenshuh
Harold Goldfine
Heath Foundation
Merle
Hilliard
Gary
Holmes
Pat Hopf
Hubbard Foundation
Ann
& Robert Jackson
Anna & Eugene Karpas
Steve Klick
Tim Kraskey
Joy
Lindsay
Gerald Magnuson
Chris
Mayr
Spence
Morley Mark Paper Gary
Rappaport
Richard Foundation Dave Ring Harold Roitenberg
Mike Sill
Robert
Simon
State Farm Insurance John
Stavig
Roy
Wetterstrom Jeffrey Wirth
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Thank You MN Cup Mentors
Clark Becker Robert Befidi, Jr. John Bergstrom Dodd Clasen Nicholas Clementi Judy Corson Tony Crisman Dan Grigsby Linda Hall Keller Anne Kelly Franz Hofmeister Ken Holec Aaron Keller Don Keysser Tim Kraskey Ruth Lane Spence Morley Mark Price Prakash Puram Ron Reimann Dave Ring Jeffrey Robinson Brett Shockley Scott Sustacek Rajiv Tandon Jim Thomas Mike Tierney Roy Wetterstrom
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