Activities & Events
Sometimes I learned the most from the times I was dead wrong. And it is better to make those mistakes now than later.
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Building a team, finding a supplier, securing funding - they all happen through a network. We help budding entrepreneurs develop a network, and more importantly, learn how to leverage their idea with other people's resources. Our students participate in the Oklahoma venture forum's luncheons, i2e's tech night out and the Oklahoma Bricktown Capital Conference. Additionally many guest speakers are brought to campus as entrepreneurs-in-residence and judges for business plan competitions.
Three times each semester, the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Co-host a university-wide symposium on entrepreneurship. The symposium is comprised of leading business figures who have made billions of dollars, hired thousands of employees, taken companies public, taken companies private, grown through new products, grown through new lines and grown the acquisitions. Students have the unique opportunity to meet with them individually before the symposium and interact as a group during the symposium. More than 45 guest speakers and guest lectures participate in the student classroom experience throughout the semester.
Networking is instrumental, but broadening the horizons of the students is equally important. Many of our students have had limited international experience. We have created a study abroad program for our entrepreneurship students for two reasons. First,understanding how other nations and cultures do business is important. Second, by traveling abroad, we show the students the world isn't so big after all. They return empowered. They have seen the other side of the world and they aren't scared. We are developing undergraduate programs in Italy and China as well as MBA programs in Great Britain and India.