November 20, 2009
Pitching in a Pinch
Three minutes to close the deal!
Forty GW students put their idea power and salesmanship to the test in the second annual “Pitch George!” competition last weekend. The student-entrepreneur contestants had to develop an innovative business proposal and successfully sell the idea to an “investor,” within the tight physical and chronological confines of a three-minute elevator pitch. (more)
Briefcase
- GWSB Alumnus Establishes Scholarship Program for Veterans
- New Touches in Duquès Hall
- It Takes ‘Green’ to Go Green
- Tourism Leadership Council Welcomes New Chairman, New Members
- Eric von Hippel Delivers Welling Professor Lecture
Getting to Know
Events
- Robert Herz and Sir David Tweedie Announced as 2009-2010 Maxon Lecturers
Presentations
- Salah Hassan
Publications
- Gil Yancey
- Vanessa G. Perry
- Salah Hassan & Alexander Krasnikov
Getting Ink
- Liesl Riddle
- Lisa Delpy Neirotti
- The Washington Post & the Washington Business Journal
Kudos
- Patrick McHugh
- Vanessa G. Perry
- Young Hoon Kwak
International Council for Small Business (ICSB)
- - ICSB Promotes Social Entrepreneurship Worldwide
- - ICSB Reports on 'Entrepreneurship Education Down Under!'
Class Notes
- Tiane Harrison, BBA, '01
- Richard Marks, MA, '58
- Susan Sirmai-Feinberg, BBA, '76, and MBA, '79
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