Ivey Entrepreneur Newsletter Winter 2011

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Institute Buzz

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

Growth is a funny thing. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pro-growth. An entrepreneurship institute would be an odd place for someone who wasn’t.  But, like a growing business, we are experiencing some of the challenges that come with continuous, rapid expansion.

Each year, more and more students have been signing up for courses in Entrepreneurship and to participate in the Ivey New Venture Project (hats off to Ron Close, Tara Grzegorczyk and our team of Virtual Entrepreneurs-in-Residence for an amazing year!). So we’ve been adding faculty and staff - Deanna Bond recently joined us as Initiatives Coordinator and Prof. Brian Anderson will be joining the faculty roster this summer. As a team, we have the opportunity to influence more and more students and to shape the tone of learning throughout Ivey. As individuals, however, we are each at risk of losing some of the direct connections - with our students and our colleagues - that are so important.

So as spring leans toward summer and a new academic cycle peeks over the horizon, we have an opportunity to reflect on what a great time it is to be part of the explosion in entrepreneurial passion that has become so central to all our programs at Ivey. Then we need to make doubly sure that we continue to execute on those programs and make them even better.

Enjoy the issue!