One week ago, the HBA1 class at Ivey spent a few days engaged in the Bruce R. Dodds Cross-Enterprise Challenge. This event was an opportunity for HBA students to integrate their first year learning and apply it in an entrepreneurial context.
On Wednesday, March 4th HBA students at Ivey hosted a film festival highlighting the movie-making abilities of students from the University of Western Ontario, including Brescia, King’s, and Huron.
A short while ago, the HBA Student Association Environmental Committee hosted a Social Enterprise Bootcamp with special guest speaker Farouk Jiwa. Farouk is the Director of CARE Enterprise Partners, a recently established unit of CARE Canada seeking lasting solutions to poverty through market-based approaches designed to unleash entrepreneurship in developing countries.
Every year at Ivey, the HBA and MBA classes have the opportunity to participate in the New Venture Project (NVP). The NVP is an entrepreneurial, team-based final project that takes students through the process of developing and launching a new venture from conceptualization to formation.
Prometheus Power Systems, a Richard Ivey School of Business New Venture Project by Matthew Busbridge, Sebastian Koper and Joseph Mocanu (Spring MBA 2009) placed first at the National Business & Technology Conference Entrepreneurship Competition this weekend at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto.