Title: Business and Entrepreneurship Alliance at Marian and Rice (BEAM&R) Present: BEAM&R & Bagels Speaker Series – Keving Hart of Kevin Hart and Associates
Location: 7101 Lahser Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301
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Kevin Hart, Founder and CEO of Kevin Hart and Associates will discuss what it was like to going “From Employee to Entrepreneur”

Visit: www.kevinhartassociates.com

“BEAM&R” stands for Business and Entrepreneurship Alliance at Marian and Rice is a student organization at Brother Rice and Marian High Schools that focuses on educating students on business, entrepreneurship, and life.

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Start Time: 07:00 AM
Date: 2009-11-18
End Time: 07:45 AM

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Title: Moving Ideas to Market Presented by: Prima Civitas Foundation
Location: 925 South Creyts Rd, Lansing, MI 48917
Description: Lexington Hotel, 925 S. Creyts Rd., Lansing MI Moving Ideas to Market (MI2M) is a C.S. Mott funded initiative that empowers three volunteer‐driven action groups to implement strategies and programs that foster a robust entrepreneurial culture in Michigan. MI2M participants and stakeholders will have a chance to meet, network, report‐out on Action group work, discuss future plans, and inform prospective participants on the initiative. A special thank‐you surprise for MI2M participants will also be included! KEY NOTE SPEAKER: JIM HERBERT—NEOGEN CORPORATION OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE: JACK LITZENBERG—C.S. CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION DAVID HOLLISTER—PRIMA CIVITAS FOUNDATION ACTION GROUP REPRESENTATIVES
Start Time: 09:30 AM
Date: 2009-11-17

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Title: Eastern Michigan University Hosts NCAA Style JA Titan Business Simulation Competition
Location: 300 West Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Description: Eastern Michigan College of Business to host first ever competition in an NCAA style competition using the Junior Achievement, “JA Titan” business simulation game. 64 teams will be reduced to 32, then 16 etc.  The “Sweet Sixteen” will meet on Friday, November 20th in the College of Business for the final rounds and declare a winner.
Date: 2009-11-20

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Title: DEC Presents: SPEAKER: Carl Schramm President & CEO Kauffman Foundation
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Description: Carl Schramm

Topic:

Economic Growth: The Forgotten Dimension of the Recovery
In the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, fingers are increasingly being pointed at capitalism. Excesses in the markets got us into this mess, so the thinking goes, and only a firm regulatory hand will get us out. That’s the conventional wisdom–and it’s all wrong. Kauffman Foundation President and CEO Carl Schramm will explain why capitalism did not cause the problem but does offer the solution. And not just any capitalism but entrepreneurial capitalism–the risk-taking innovation by our nation’s entrepreneurs that creates jobs, life-enhancing products and services, and the growth that will lead our nation toward economic recovery and prosperity.
Biography:

President and chief executive officer of the Kauffman Foundation since 2002, Carl Schramm is one of the world’s most recognized thought leaders on fostering and advancing entrepreneurship. The Economist has hailed Schramm as the “evangelist of entrepreneurship,” and USA Today noted, “On every front, the Kauffman Foundation has worked intelligently to promote and sustain entrepreneurs – in the fields of entrepreneurship education, research, policy, economic development, and access to capital.” Schramm is the author of The Entrepreneurial Imperative (HarperCollins, 2006). He is also coauthor of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, with Robert Litan and William Baumol (Yale University Press, 2007), which is now available in nine languages and was named in 2008 one of the “Top Ten Books That Drive Debate” by the National Chamber Foundation, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Both books are regarded as emerging classics, providing new insight into the American and international economies.

Appointed in 2007 by then-U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Schramm served as chairperson of the Department of Commerce’s Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economic Advisory Committee, which released its report in January 2008.

An entrepreneur himself, who brings a variety of experiences in business, public policy and academia, Schramm has developed a unique perspective on the financial power of entrepreneurs and how public policies encouraging entrepreneurship can cultivate more dynamic economic growth. Under his leadership, the Kauffman Foundation has developed innovative programs that: expose students to the power of entrepreneurship…

Buy Tickets and read view his full biography at: http://www.econclub.org/Meetings/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=20e4fea3-7903-4542-877d-491f66487d44
Start Time: 11:30 AM
Date: 2009-11-09

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Title: Ann Arbor Spark – Boot Camp Celebration with Executive Summary Presentations
Location: 330 East Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Description: Join us for the Fall Boot Camp Celebration including executive summary presentations.

At this networking event we will recognize the completion of the November 2009 Boot Camp and announce the Best of Boot Camp award.

All are welcome.
Start Time: 05:00 PM
Date: 2009-11-18
End Time: 08:00 PM

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Title: Menlo Software Factory Tour
Location: 410 N 4th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Description: In honor of Michigan Global Entrepreneurship Week, Menlo Innovations will be conducting a special tour of its workspace.

Join us at the Menlo Software FactoryTM on Tuesday, November 17th and listen as host Richard Sheridan describes why he chose the path of entrepreneurship over employment so that he could create one of the most interesting and innovative workplaces in Michigan.

www.menloinnovations.com
Start Time: 05:00 PM

Date: 2009-11-17

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Two new exciting entrepreneurs have signed on for Mentoring Madness, sponsored by NYSE Euronext, taking place at the New York Stock Exchange November 16. One is Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital. For the past 17 years, Mr. Sternlicht has structured more than 300 separate real estate investment transactions with an asset value of more than $40 billion. From 1995 through 2004, Mr. Sternlicht was Chairman and CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., a company he founded in 1995. Today, Starwood Hotels is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 895 properties in 100 countries. Sternlict is also at trustee of Brown University and holds a number of prominent Board positions, including Estee Lauder, JP Morgan Chase and Field & Stream.

Also joining the panel will be Stephen P. Hanson, founder and president of B.R. Guest Restaurants, a New York-based multi-concept operator that began with one restaurant in 1987 and has since expanded to fifteen restaurants in three cities. B.R. Guest is also the first national restaurant group to be certified Green. Hanson currently sits on the Board of Directors for NYC & Company, New York City’s official tourism organization and Public Color, a group focused on using art to empower students to transform their communities. Hanson has also found success working with several other business endeavors in the New York area, including a nightclub, designer sportswear company and concept hotel.

These two will join the CEO of TOMs Shoes, Blake Mycoskie, for an exciting panel discussion taking place November 16 at the New York Stock Exchange. Partners are encouraged to watch the Web feed of this event. The live version will be Monday, November 16, at 9 a.m. EST, with the recorded version available online anytime during the Week. Make sure you register your Mentoring Madness event on our Website. While you’re there, you can download a toolkit to help plan and execute your event.

Three university students will also have a chance to attend the panel in NYC by submitting a business plan to the Movers and Changers competition, sponsored by NYSE Euronext and mtvU. The winner of this competition will receive $25,000 in cash to help his or her company start off on the right foot, and get to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Title: Michigan Global Innovation Tournament
Location: 21000 W 10 Mile Rd Southfield, MI 48075-1058
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Description: Student teams participate in a challenge to take an object of very little value and create as much value as possible from it in the 3 day span of the event. Students define value as they wish, as monetary or social, and are evaluated based on implementing their plan, gaining results, creativity and problem solving. Each team creates a video advertising or describing a product; the videos are submitted to Stanford and posted on You Tube.

Cash prizes will go to the 3 teams!

Contact: Katie Hayes
Email: klewis@ltu.edu
Phone: 2482042415
More Information: http://www.ltu.edu/leadership/git.asp

Start Date: 2009-11-06
Start Time: 05:00 PM
End Date: 2009-11-08
End Time: 02:00 PM

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