CIE News

Student Feature | Meet Jennie!

Meet Jennie! Currently Jennie works as a Student Business Consultant through the CIE. Last semester, she worked on a team where they created social media platforms for the client that saved her a thousand dollars in advertising expenses. Also, they collaborated with another local Oxford business so that their client could broaden her scope of […]

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Student Feature | Meet Jeffrey!

Meet Jeffrey! As a member of the Student Business Consulting Team, Jeffrey is deployed in teams of three to four to work with clients in the areas of customer and market research, product and production solutions, accounting, social media utilization, business planning and strategy, and other areas as needed.  On his last project, he worked […]

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Student Feature | Meet Jane Kat!

Meet Jane Kat! Jane Kathryn, a senior marketing major from Madison, MS, works as a Student Business Consultant in the CIE. This is her second semester working for CIE’s Student Business Consulting Program. In the fall of 2016, she assisted with the North Mississippi Recording Academy and helped decipher housing options for the academy’s student […]

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Student Feature | Meet Gus!

Meet Gus! Gus works with a select team of students to provide business-consulting services to Mississippi businesses. This is his third semester working with the Business Consulting Team and he has completed two projects and is working currently on a third. For his first project, his team had the pleasure of working with the founder […]

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Guest Speaker, Hank Jones!

Hank Jones, Co-Founder at Kopis Mobile, will be speaking at our Entrepreneurship Club’s meeting on March 20th. Kopis Mobile has been designing and manufacturing apps and app-enabled equipment for the DoD, law enforcement and private security markets since 2009. Their team also has decades of experience in hardware development, particularly PCB and electrical design, mechanical […]

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Student Feature | Meet Emily!

Meet Emily! Emily came on board as a Student Business Consultant in the fall semester of her senior year. She worked previously with the CIE in the Gillespie Business Model competition where her product, The Power Heel, took 2nd place. After speaking with Owens Alexander about the SBC program, she was excited to see if […]

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Student Feature | Meet Eddie!

Meet Eddie! Eddie Johnson is a Senior Management Information System major. Before getting involved with CIE, he served as an independent IT Field Technician and Merchandise Auditor for various large retail merchants throughout the Greater Area of North Mississippi for three years. In the beginning of the Fall 2016 term, he continued my consultant endeavors […]

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FrogTutoring

FrogTutoring is an educational technology platform that facilitates one-on-one private tutoring offering the full range of academic courses and test prep in your area. The company has been featured on CNN and other media outlets.   FrogTutoring is looking to hire some students to work not just as tutors, but also as mentors to students […]

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Student Feature – Meet Haley!

Meet Haley! Haley Matchette works as a Student Media Coordinator in the CIE and assists with designing and writing copy for social postings. At the beginning of her freshman year, she started her own Marketing company which offers social media and graphic design services. After working in marketing for nearly 4 years, she wanted to […]

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JAMAS Announces $2500 Entrepreneurial Spirit of Mississippi Scholarship

Encourages University of Mississippi Students to Pursue an Innovative Business Career DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 28, 2017 Jackson, MS – UPDATED February 28, 2017 – JAMAS Capital Management, a leading private investment firm, has announced the JAMAS Entrepreneurial Spirit of Mississippi Scholarship. The $2,500 scholarship is intended to help University of Mississippi students become the […]

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