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Roundtable Recap: Bernadette Aulestia ‘94 Shares Major Changes Underway in the Media and Entertainment Industries
On October 8, 2019 The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Brown EP hosted Bernadette Aulestia ‘94 for a roundtable discussion as part of the Roundtable Discussion Series moderated by Megan Kasselberg ‘20. Aulestia spoke to students about major changes underway in...
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Nelson Center Receives “Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center” Award at 2019 GCEC Conference
The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship received the award for Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center on Sept. 28, 2019, at the annual conference for The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers is a...
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Roundtable Recap: Riche Holmes Grant ’99 Shares Lessons Learned about Fighting through Failure, Building Mentor Relationships, and More
By Chuck Isgar ‘21 On September 27, 2019, The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Brown EP proudly hosted Riche Holmes Grant ‘99 (pictured above center) for a roundtable discussion as part of the Roundtable Discussion Series moderated by Chuck Isgar ’21 (center in,...
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2019 MARCH LONDON SYNAPSE TRIP RECAP: From NET-A-PORTER to Parliament to the famous Lloyd’s of London
During spring break (March 2019), the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and BrownConnect took 6 students and 2 staff on an immersive Synapse trip to explore the startup culture in London, as a part of their international collaborative offerings. The five-day,...
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Prof. Barbara Tannenbaum Discusses Communication and Identity for Entrepreneurs
From a student’s perspective, Barbara Tannenbaum is something of a celebrity professor here at Brown. Her course TAPS 0220: “Persuasive Communication” is famously overenrolled each semester; the classroom is flooded with students eager to snag a spot and even the top...
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B-Lab 2019 Students Pitch at Third Annual “Bear’s Lair”
One panel of Bear’s Lair judges. Pictured L to R: Arnell Milhouse, Aneesha Mehta ’14, Bob Place ’75, Marcia Hooper ’77 Breakthrough Lab, the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s eight-week accelerator for student ventures, concluded July 26 with Bear’s Lair, a pitch...
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