CIE News

2023 Family Business Symposium Attendee Spotlight

January 10, 2024

2023 Family Business Symposium Attendee Spotlight – Monica Harrigill Monica Harrigill, co-owner of The Sunray Companies, was one of 160 family businessprofessionals in attendance at the 2023 It’s All Relative Family Business Symposium hosted bythe Ole Miss Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Legacy Leadership Program. Monica, originally from Mississippi, completed her education at Millsaps College […]

Read More

Freshman Entrepreneur Wins First Place at UM Business Model Competition

November 27, 2023

Freshman Entrepreneur Wins First Place at UM Business Model Competition Hosted by the University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the annual competition allows students to pitch their businesses to expert judges for a chance to win $10,000. Julien Bourgeois, a freshman computer science major from Metairie, Louisiana, is the co-founder and CEO of […]

Read More

2023 Family Business Symposium Attendee Spotlight

November 27, 2023

2023 Family Business Symposium Attendee Spotlight – Ricky Myers Rickey Myers, CEO of RAM Pharmaceuticals, was one of over 160 family business professionals in attendance at the 2023 It’s All Relative Family Business Symposium hosted by the Ole Miss Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Legacy Leadership Program. Ricky Myers is a graduate of the […]

Read More

University Aims to Boost Family Businesses at Annual Symposium

October 16, 2023

OXFORD, Miss. – Family businesses will be the center of discussion during the second annual It’s All Relative Family Business Symposium, set for Sept. 14-15 in Flowood. Hosted by the University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the open forum will connect small business and family business owners and employees with industry experts. The event is slated […]

Read More

In the Words of Reed Barrett

September 8, 2023

Reed Barrett, Co-Founder at CampusOptics, started the first Entrepreneurship Club at the UM Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Barrett was a sophomore, business major at Ole Miss in 2004 when the two-story Alpha Tau Omega house burned down on Friday, August 27. “I was asleep in the house that night, along with 26 of my […]

Read More

Family Business Symposium Attendee Spotlight – Amy Walker

November 1, 2022

Highlighting another of our family business owners registered for the upcoming “It’s All Relative” 2022 Ole Miss Family Business Symposium hosted by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, we spoke with Amy Walker, a third-generation family member and board of director at Ergon, Inc. Founded in 1954 by Walker’s grandfather Leslie Lampton, Ergon, Inc. has […]

Read More

Family Business Symposium Attendee Spotlight – Bryan Hawkins

October 26, 2022

Highlighting another of our family business owners registered for the upcoming “It’s All Relative” 2022 Ole Miss Family Business Symposium hosted by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, we spoke with Bryan Hawkins, the founder and president of Hawkeye Industries, Inc. in Tupelo, Miss. Established in 1995, Hawkeye Industries is a high-tech OEM contract manufacturer […]

Read More

Family Business Symposium Attendee Spotlight – Emily Payne

October 19, 2022

Highlighting some of our family business owners registered for the upcoming “It’s All Relative” 2022 Ole Miss Family Business Symposium hosted by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, we begin with Emily Payne, a fourth-generation member of the Fordice Construction Company. Headquartered in Vicksburg, Miss. with a second office in St. Francisville, La., the company […]

Read More

Application Deadline for Fall CIE Competitions Arrives

October 17, 2022

OXFORD, Miss. – The final day to register for each of the Ole Miss Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship fall competitions has arrived, as Monday October 17, 2022 is the application deadline for both the “Servin’ the South” Business Model Competition and the Landshark Tank Pitch Competition. Each event can be applied to with a […]

Read More

Current Professor and Former CIE Resident Blake Dubinski’s Company Earns Spot in Inc.com Top 5,000 Businesses

October 4, 2022

OXFORD, Miss. – Current adjunct professor in management in the Ole Miss Business School and former entrepreneur in resident for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Blake Dubinski was recently recognized by Inc.com in their list of the top 5,000 fastest growing companies in America, with his company GenTeal coming in at No. 1,417, and […]

Read More