Meeting News 2.13.15

Welcome back to the Carranor for this Friday’s meeting.  After a successful auction, we get the chance to get back to normal – at least for a little while before tackling our next club project this spring.  Read below for an update from Auction Chair Rick Thielen.  We can’t thank him and his team enough but it would be great if you’d try!

 

We have a great program coming up on Friday.  College of Business students experience one of the most unique and innovative business programs in the country. Students graduate with real-world knowledge of the global marketplace through interactive learning programs and internships making graduates highly marketable to recruiters across the country.  We’ll hear from Dean Ray Braun about the school.  Following a 10 year career as associate and partner at Shumaker, Loop, and Kendrick and a 16-year career at Health Care REIT, he took the helm of the business school in 2012.

 

Dean Braun will introduce Kirk Kern, director of the Dallas-Hamilton Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the College of Business at Bowling Green State University, recognized as Northwest Ohio's premier resource for entrepreneurial education.  Kirk will discuss a fascinating program that is reminiscent of “The Shark Tank.”

 

The Falcon Hatchery in the Dallas-Hamilton Center accepts applications each fall from all current BGSU undergraduate students to launch new business ventures as part of the event called "The Hatch." If your application is accepted, you will be paired with an alumni mentor and will prepare a presentation of your business idea to alumni investors. 

 

Students have the unique opportunity to launch a business with the assistance of a business start-up program called "The Hatch."  If selected as a Hatchling through an application process, students work on a business presentation with an alumni mentor for ten weeks.  The aspiring entrepreneurs then face a panel of investors, along with a live audience, and pitch their ideas in hopes of obtaining funding to “hatch” their venture, similar to the television show "Shark Tank."

 

We've got a full bulletin this week so I hope you take some time to read through it.  If there are items you’d like promoted for your project, please let Ken Robinson or Alison Frye know so we can work with you to get a story to share.  See you on Friday at Carranor!