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  • Strategy Without Execution Is an Illusion

    This article can be found at the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/buck-goldstein/strategy-without-executio_b_610097.html By Buck Goldstein, Entrepreneur in Residence, UNC June 14, 2010 I spent most of a day last week participating in developing a strategy for a...

  • UNC students begin social entrepreneurship training

    May 25, 2010 Durham, N.C.  — Six UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates jump into the world of social change in June, serving as professional interns in the new Hilliard P. Jenkins Undergraduate Fellowship Program. The program allows students to receive practical training with...

  • Chancellor's boot camp encourages widespread entrepreneurial thinking

    May 13, 2010 Chapel Hill, N.C.  — UNC faculty members from a range of academic disciplines immersed themselves in four days of entrepreneurial thinking during the second Chancellor's Boot Camp held May 10-13. The boot camp was developed and offered by the Office of the...

  • Entrepreneurship minor celebrates 68 graduates, sends 92 interns around the world

    May 9, 2010 Chapel Hill, N.C.  — Sixty-eight students graduating in 18 majors celebrated the completion of the entrepreneurship minor offered by the department of economics in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences at a May 9 ceremony. The keynote speaker was Tom Darden,...

  • First Year Seminar students create Web site promoting university innovation and entrepreneurship

    April 22, 2010 A student-built Web site supports the concepts in a new book, "Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the 21st Century," co-authored by UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp and University Entrepreneur-in-Residence Buck Goldstein to be published in fall 2010....

  • Four undergraduates receive inaugural entrepreneurship awards

    March 26, 2010 Chapel Hill, N.C. — Four aspiring undergraduate entrepreneurs from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the inaugural JNO Awards of $3,000-$5,000 March 26 at the minor in entrepreneurship spring alumni event. The award was created by 2003...

  • UNC student entrepreneur featured in Inc.'s annual College Start-ups feature

    March 2010 Junior economics major and entrepreneurship minor Joe Davy is one of nine college entrepreneurs featured in  Inc. magazine's second annual " list of the students who are inventing the future ." Davy co-founded EvoApp with partner Alexey Melnichenko, a computer engineering...

  • Vinyl Records co-founder releases debut album

    March 2010 Allen Mask produces, writes and performs for his solo debut album, Pilot Season , described as "hip hop that is clean, innovative, musical and fresh." The UNC senior journalism and mass communications major is co-founder of UNC nonprofit student-run record label and booking...

  • CaraGreen president Stacy Glass shares challenges, successes with entrepreneurship minor women's network

    Feb. 17, 2010 Chapel Hill, N.C.  — From high school dropout to MBA to company president, startup consultant Stacy Glass shared the story of her entrepreneurial journey Feb. 16 at a gathering of the UNC Women's Entrepreneurship Network. “When I dropped out of high school...

  • Groundbreaking science innovators share insights, advice at UNC

    Feb. 4, 2010 Chapel Hill, N.C.  — Students enrolled in the scientific track of UNC's undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship and a First Year Seminar, Engines of Innovations, got a rare opportunity to explore innovation and its link to higher education with top scientific...