Earlham College Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Creativity

02/21/2023

Join us to learn more about the Earlham-Levinson Entrepreneurial Leadership Boot Camp Info Session✨⚙️

11/18/2022

A key strategic goal for the Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity (CEIC) is to develop student-faculty-community partnerships that build capacity and create exceptional learning opportunities. The CEIC has been collaborating with Marlene Lindsey, founder of the Black Legacy Project of Wayne County, Indiana.

"The mission of the Black Legacy Project of Wayne County, Indiana, is to provide dedicated exhibits to document the contributions of African Americans in Wayne County—which, in turn, would be available as research materials for students and historians in Wayne County and beyond."

Phase 1 of the collaboration is for Earlham students to help Marlene Lindsey and her team create an exhibition for summer 2023. This exhibition will be featured at various venues throughout Richmond and Wayne County, Indiana.

11/07/2022

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10/04/2022

Thank you to everyone who made it to the Info Session for the 3DayStartup! Don’t miss it! It will be from Oct21 - Oct23. Join us and learn all about entrepreneurship🎉

The deadline to apply is October 1️⃣4️⃣. You can register through this link → https://3tkwyjh97yk.typeform.com/to/hHTi0gjp

Any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us☺️

09/14/2022

Funded by a generous gift from Frank and Kristin Levinson, the Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Creativity launched the inaugural Earlham-Levinson Entrepreneurial Leadership Bootcamp. Facilitated by Carmen Franco (CRF Consulting), 15 students developed core business competencies in ethical leadership, individual professional development skills, presentation skills, finance and quantitative analysis, social impact analysis, and the entrepreneurial sales management process.

05/10/2022

On Saturday, May 7, Teams HEART and Pearl Tea competed against each other for the final round of the 2021-22 Earlham EPIC Grand Challenge. This year's theme was “Utilizing the power of integrative collaboration to improve the quality of life for 25,000 citizens in Wayne County, Indiana by 2027.” Team Pearl Tea (Allama Sijan ‛22 and Rutendo Magade ‛23) developed a business plan around a Boba tea establishment, providing a healthy alternative to folks in and around Wayne County. Team HEART (Ahmed Deeb ‛23, Tess Cunningham ‛23, Medrine Kihanga ‛24, and Nathaly Montaya ‛24) have formed a partnership with the Richmond Fire Department to develop an EMT training course for county residents. Both teams gave a strong showing with HEART narrowly taking 1st place and Pearl Tea being awarded 2nd place. Please congratulate the teams on all of their hard work.

05/09/2022

Phil Morgan, Owner of Depot Taxi made a guest appearance to the Global Management MGMT 354 Entrepreneurial Marketing class and reviewed his entrepreneurial journey that featured among one of his businesses, Depot Taxi. One of the deliverables for the students is to select a guest speaker and their respective company/non-profit organization and create 2 marketing inventions; based upon a nonprofit/company of one of the class speakers using the entrepreneurial marketing techniques learned in the class.

05/06/2022

Heather Lerner, Joseph Moore Museum, Associate Professor of Biology and Museum Studies, made a guest appearance to the Global Management MGMT 354 Entrepreneurial Marketing class and reviewed the Joseph Moore Museum strategy, marketing, and community outreach initiatives. One of the deliverables for the students is to select a guest speaker and their respective company/non-profit organization and create two marketing inventions; based upon a nonprofit/company of one of the class speakers using the entrepreneurial marketing techniques learned in the class.

05/05/2022

Dan Dickman, Senior Vice President of Collegiate Select and Mergers and Acquisitions made a guest appearance at the Global Management MGMT 354 Entrepreneurial Marketing class and reviewed the journey of the "mom and pop" Richmond, Indiana founded Kesseler's Sporting Good to the multibillion-dollar sporting goods enterprise of BSN Sports. One of the deliverables for the students is to select a guest speaker and their respective company/non-profit organization and create 2 marketing inventions; based upon a nonprofit/company of one of the class speakers using the entrepreneurial marketing techniques learned in the class.

04/21/2022

Say hello to O’Jeanique, the Director of our EPIC Center Recruiting Team! She is in charge of all that goes into spreading the word about our signature program, EPIC Journey. O’Jeanique originally started working in admissions for Wittenberg University as an undergraduate student. There, she was also a peer mentor, tour guide, and helped lead multiple student organizations, among many other things. After graduating, O’Jeanique decided to pursue a career in higher education and eventually decided to come to Earlham! When asked about how she ended up here, she said, “I think it was fate that led me to Earlham. It is such a wonderful place and I feel so lucky that Earlham chose me!” O’Jeanique’s favorite part of her job is getting to work with the students here and watching them grow. She is also very excited about the reopening of Rose City!

04/07/2022

Congratulations, Nathaly!

[CELEBRATION] 🎊🎊🎉 We are so happy for sophomore, Nathaly Montoya Jarquin! She was offered an operations internship with Credible and has secured two more interviews with Bloomberg and Panasonic! 🎊🎊🎉

Nathaly is a Global Management major who wants to pursue an MBA in Operations Management after graduation.

Nathaly's tips:
"Don't get discouraged [by rejection]. I applied to so many things and was rejected so much.

Believe in your own abilities, skills, and experience. Try not to get imposter syndrome.

Definitely, find a professor who believes in you— Gene Hambrick has been a great cheerleader. Eboni helped me with cover letters, resumes, interviews."

Earlham College Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Creativity
Earlham College

04/05/2022

“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” -Madam CJ Walker