Near the end of second semester for the HBA Program, Ivey Connects hosted a Microfinance Day at Ivey. The “Microfinance 101” crash course was open to all HBA, MBA and PHD students as well as Ivey faculty – in all there were over 80 attendees.
Recently the Entrepreneurship Institute hosted Eventi Capital Partners (ECP) to share some stories of successful start-ups.
Stanley Cup Champion hockey player, coach and now extremely successful CBC hockey broadcaster Craig Simpson spoke at Ivey recently about leadership lessons from winning organizations. Craig made it clear that anyone who succeeds at anything has something to teach at Ivey.
The HBA Entrepreneurship Club recently hosted a ‘Summer Business Ideas’ event. During this lunch event, representatives from the club mediated a group discussion on summer business ideas that students could potentially start this upcomming summer. Entrepreneurship Club members discussed the issues surrounding the ideas, the benefits of each as well as how to improve the ideas.
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.