IVEY Student Entrepreneurship Blog

This blog will keep track of entrepreneurial thoughts and activities taking place at Ivey.

Ivey Film Festival

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

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.

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Ivey Social Enterprise Bootcamp

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

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.

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Ivey New Venture Project

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

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.

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Prometheus Power Systems

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

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.

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SABRE Simulation

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

This is the time of year when the marketing faculty as well as Ivey MBA and HBA students begin the SABRE simulation. SABRE is a computer-based business simulation that offers students the opportunity to work in teams on marketing strategies in competition with teams who are assigned to the same virtual industry.

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