5th Annual Innovation Challenge (Idea Crossing/Darden Graduate School of Business): The Innovation Challenge brings together teams from MBA programs worldwide with global brands in a competition to solve real-world business challenges. Registration For more information, or to register a team to enter the challenge, visit their website http://www.innovationchallenge.com/. Early registration: now through September 14 (closes at 11:59pm/23:59 EST) Regular registration: Sept 15 - Sept 28 (Regular registration closes at 11:59pm/23:59 EST).
Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) Kickoff Event and Informational Meeting: For students interested in Entrepreneurship and Business. Branford Common Room. Monday, September 17,7:30 PM. The Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) is a student run non-profit organization dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship in the greater Yale community. For more details, visit http://www.yes.yale.edu.
MGT 618 Entrepreneurial Business Planning Info Session: There will be an information session for MGT 618 Entrepreneurial Business Planning on Tuesday, September 18 at 11:30 am in Room A51.
SOM Entrepreneurship Club Speaker Series - Yale World Fellows: Thursday, September 20 2007, 11:30 AM, A-51. Featuring Yale World Fellows: Nicolas Ducote (co-founder of the premier public policy think tank in Argentina), Penny Low (a Singaporean MP who promotes small and medium enterprises, founded a financial services consultancy, and is also a well-known advocate of social entrepreneurship), Yue Yuan (founder of Horizon Research Group, China's leading public opinion and polling company) and Huzir Sulaiman (co-founder and artistic director of the Checkpoint Theater in Singapore). See Speaker Series link above for speaker bios.
Entrepreneurship in China and Private Sector Development: The China Law Center presents “Entrepreneurship in China and Private Sector Development”, A Discussion With: Dr. Yasheng Huang,Associate Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Monday, September 24, 2007, 4:10 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 124, Yale Law School 127 Wall Street, New Haven.
Connecticut Venture Group (CVG) Early Stage Bootcamp + Practice Pitches: Wednesday, September 26, 2007. New Haven Lawn Club - New Haven, CT. 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Free for CVG members and entrepreneurs. Click here to register for this event.
Private Equity Club Event - Search Funds: Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007. Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm. Location: A-51. Please join David Brown, a partner at the law firm Choate, Hall & Stewart and Craig Burr, an active search fund investor and a prominent retired venture capital fund founder, for a presentation on search funds. What are they? When are they successful? And what opportunities are there for MBAs post-graduation to buy and run a company with the backing of a search fund? Two leaders in the formation and backing of search funds will address these and other questions on search funds. Lunch will be provided.
Club Leadership - First Year Representation: We would like to extend leadership representation to the class of 2009. Please submit a brief paragraph stating your interests/ideas for club activities and listing other SOM commitments by mid-night Friday September 28 to entrepreneur@mail.som.yale.edu.
Lunch with Fuad El-Hibri '82 SOM, CEO of Emergent BioSolutions Inc: September 28, 2007. 1:15pm, Wittink Lounge. Interested in Biotech? As CEO of Emergent BioSolutions Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of immunobiotics, Fuad will discuss trends and challenges in the biotech industry and as an entrepreneur. Lunch by lottery. RSVP by Sept. 24th to Kristen McKee (kristen.mckee@yale.edu).
Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Summit - Team registration deadline: 30 September 2007. Started as a student initiative in 2003, the Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Summit and Challenge is a unique event which inspires, educates, and promotes sustainable and creative thinking in the global business arena. The Summit comprises of a global innovation competition for teams of Master's level students from around the world to tackle real-world business challenges. The Challenge begins with an Online Round on October 1-21 and the Final Round will be held at the Thunderbird campus in Glendale, Arizona, on Nov. 8-10, 2007. More details at http://www.thunderbird.edu/sites/tsis/index.htm.