Ivey Entrepreneur Newsletter Summer 2010

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Institute Buzz

By Stewart Thornhill,
Executive Director, Pierre
L. Morrissette Institute for
Entrepreneurship

Although a few courses, including Ivey’s MBA program, run year round, the UWO campus is eerily quiet and empty. The entire institution seems to be taking a deep breath between festive graduation celebrations and frenzied returns to fall class.

A sleepy summertime campus brings to mind the metaphor of a duck on a pond, appearing outwardly placid while below the surface the legs are hard at work.

Doctoral students use the summer months to advance their research (see the article by Ivey PhD Dominic Lim), while MBA students undertake their fi rst round of electives and HBAs use the summer hiatus to supplement their resumes with internships and travel. Program office staff are finalizing course schedules and securing classrooms for the growing student population. Newly recruited faculty members are welcomed. And we all squeeze a little tighter, as the school continues to grow while we anticipate the opening of the new building a few hundred metres to the west.

Within the Entrepreneurship Institute, we use the summer months to review what we’ve done and prepare for the year(s) ahead. Even now, during the somnolent days of summer, new ideas are hatching and opportunities being seized - more is happening than meets the eye.

This spring we welcomed Professor Rob Mitchell, who joins Ivey from University of Oklahoma, and Mike Meagher, who taught this past winter, which brings to eight the number of faculty dedicated to teaching Entrepreneurship at Ivey. The growth in faculty and programs over the past few years speaks to the demand for entrepreneurship education as well as the quality of the learning experience students receive from our world-class team.

All of which means it’ll be a busy fall. Best to enjoy the quiet of summer while it lasts.