Author: Rich Gentry

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February 9, 2017

Rice Business Plan Competition Open!

December 6, 2016

The world’s biggest business plan competition for MBA students is accepting applications. Get in there!!!

November Land Shark Tank Goes Off Without a Hook

November 8, 2016

Way to go to all the winners and participants in the LandShark Tank for November 2016!  We had 11 competitors compete and they had some wonderful ideas. From Virtual Reality cultural immersion to all coffee shops and student garbage couriers, the ideas ran the gamut of possibilities for student businesses.  We were really fortunate to […]

Gentry & Dibrell Publish

July 1, 2016

Dr. Rich Gentry (CIE Director), Dr. Clay Dibrell (CIE Executive Director) and Dr. Jaemin Kim, a recent graduate of Ole Miss, just had their paper titled “Long‐Term Orientation in Publicly Traded Family Businesses: Evidence of a Dominant Logic” published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the number one domain specific journal in entrepreneurship research.  Looking at […]

2016 Gillespie Business Plan Competition Produces New Businesses

June 10, 2016

The Ole Miss Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship announced the winners of the 2016 Gillespie Business Plan Competition on April 8, 2016. The competition, sponsored by the Mabus Agency and Renasant Bank in its tenth year, began on February 21. The pool of 40 business teams narrowed to six finalists from which Nimble Fashion prevailed […]

Gentry hits Harvard Business Review

April 18, 2016

Our own Dr. Gentry has hit it big in the Harvard Business Review. Check out his research here.  Also published in the Academy of Management Journal (a top 5 business research outlet), their paper suggests that equity investors pay attention to both the CEO’s reputation and also to the reputation of equity analysts when making […]

Students Win Big at First Business Model Competition

November 10, 2015

The Ole Miss Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted its first Fall Business Model Competition in October of 2015. The competition focused on turning an idea into a compelling business model. A business model describes how a company creates value for its customers and itself. “Our objective was to get students excited about thinking and starting new […]

Ole Miss CIE Wins Award for Best New Center for Entrepreneurship

October 31, 2015

  The University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship received the Emerging Entrepreneurship Center Award at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers conference. The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) awarded the University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) the Emerging Entrepreneurship Award on October 31st at its annual conference in Gainesville, […]

CIE Opens New Location in Conner Hall

September 10, 2015

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship staff and faculty hosted campus visitors and others from the Ole Miss School of Business Administration hosted its open house October 16, 2015, for the new location in 10 Conner Hall. The center’s office was designed to be a student-friendly environment. With two student work centers, conference, a study […]