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Additional Programs

The Department of Entrepreneurship has several programs that cross disciplines and would be interesting to students engaged in any form of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community

The Department of Entrepreneurship offers a first and second-year Living Learning Community (LLC) on-campus for students interested in learning about Entrepreneurship to get special access and first-hand experiences to what the Institute has to offer. This community is open to all students from all backgrounds, passions, and majors.

The Institute knows that Entrepreneurship goes far beyond just creating businesses. The Entrepreneurial Mindset allows all people to become leaders, collaborators, and goal-reachers. From speakers to events to workshops, being a part of the LLC means you will have access to the resources, coaching, classes, and support network to make an impact in college that lasts a lifetime, not just 4 years.

Contact: Tara Hoppe, hoppetl@miamioh.edu.


Book Club Author Talk

Held each semester, the Department of Entrepreneurship’s Book Club Author Talk features a bestseller book on entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and/or technology commercialization and brings to campus the author of the book for a presentation and Q&A with students. All students receive a free copy of the book.


RedHawk VentureOn Podcast

The RedHawk VentureOn Podcast is a bi-weekly resource for Junior and Senior Entrepreneurship students at all universities. Its purpose is to offer observations, insights, and data from recent graduates about how to successfully transition from college-life to the entrepreneurial world. Faculty interview Miami University entrepreneurship graduates with less than five years of work experience and discuss what actions they specifically have taken to achieve early success. VentureOn is available on Spotify and iTunes.


Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Lecture Series

The Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Lecture Series is a biannual program that features the best in scholarly thought from eminent scholars in the field of entrepreneurship on an array of topics that cross disciplines and levels including entrepreneurial cognition and action, new venture launch and growth, behavioral economics, the growth of maker spaces, social entrepreneurship and the engines of innovation and sustainability, entrepreneurial strategy and public policy, poverty alleviation, and technology commercialization, among others.

Past speakers include:

  • Dr. Howard E. Aldrich, Kenan Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School; Winner of the George Terry Award from the Academy of Management and co-winner of the Max Weber Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work; and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University.
  • Dr. Jay B. Barney, Presidential Professor and Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Department at the University of Utah; Associate editor of the Journal of Management; Senior editor of Organization Science; Co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal; Fellow of the Academy of Management; and Past President of the Strategic Management Society.
  • Dr. Robert A. Baron, Regents Professor, Mike & Robbie Holder Chair in Entrepreneurship and William S. Spears Chair at Oklahoma State University; Associate Editor of Management Science; Past editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, the Journal of Business Venturing, the International Journal of Conflict Management, and Motivation and Emotion; and is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association.
  • Dr. R. Duane Ireland, the University Distinguished Professor and Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership at the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University; Past Editor of the Academy of Management Journal; Past Co-editor of Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Business Venturing, Organizational Research Methods, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal; Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, and the Global Entrepreneurship Consortium, and a Falcone Fellow in Entrepreneurship; and Past President of the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society.
  • Michael Lenox, the Tayloe Murphy Professor in Business, Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
  • Dr. Tom Lumpkin, the C.S. Trosper Chair, Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Director of the Tom Love Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma and Co-Editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
  • Dr. Anita McGahan, Professor and Rotman Chair in Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto; Cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Physiology Department of the Medical School; Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University; Chief Economist in the Division of Health and Human Rights at the Massachusetts General Hospital; Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management; and Past President of the Academy of Management.
  • Dr. Jeffrey S. McMullen, Dale M. Coleman Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University; former Editor-in-Chief of Business Horizons; and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Venturing.
  • Dr. Saras D. Sarasvathy, Paul M. Hammaker Professor in Business Administration in the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia; holds Jamuna Raghavan Chair at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, the University Chair from Nankai University in Tianjin, China, and the Jubilee professorship from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden; and Winner of the George Terry Award from the Academy of Management.

High School Summer Scholars

Who says learning creativity is just for college? When our students leave Oxford for their summer adventures, we keep the ball rolling with Miami’s High School Summer Scholars program. During this program, outstanding high school students spend two weeks with our Creativity faculty learning the meaning of being Entrepreneurial and using creative problem-solving with a real-world client.

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