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Entrepreneurship Week to feature keynote address by Johnsonville CEO
September 29, 2011
The Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship will celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week with a series of events, Nov. 14-21, 2011. This year’s keynote address will be delivered by Ralph Stayer, chairman and CEO of Johnsonville Sausage. The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium, 1506 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Prior to Stayer’s presentation, Tim Keane, director of the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship and the Golden Angels Network, will lead participants through the Harvard Business School's "Johnsonville Sausage" case study, which focuses on developing leadership to manage growth. The case study will begin at 5 p.m., also in the Weasler.
A complete list of Entrepreneurship Week events is available online. All events, including the case study presentation and keynote address, are free and open to the public. Registration is required and available online.
For one week each year, millions of young people around the world join a growing movement of entrepreneurial thinkers to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. Countries across six continents come together to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. To think big— and to turn their ideas into reality.
Each November, Global Entrepreneurship Week at Marquette University offers activities across campus designed to help the Marquette community explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others participate in a range of activities, from online to face-to-face, and from large-scale events and competitions to intimate networking gatherings.
More than 1,300 students, alumni and members of the Milwaukee community participated in Marquette’s 2010 Entrepreneurship Week celebration of innovation campus-wide, which featured panelists and keynote speakers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Jeff Hoffman, founder of Priceline.com.
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