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 The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship
December 10, 2014

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From the Director

Leveraging Education to Create Opportunity
Our focus has been around creating opportunity by leveraging educational resources in our ecosystem. With an entrepreneurial vision that is focused around value creation, we give a strategic context for all the knowledge we share and create within the Cornell community...see more.


Education

Concentration in Entrepreneurship Approved

The School of Hotel Administration officially approved a concentration in entrepreneurship in November 2014. With the help of the entrepreneurship faculty and the growth and realignment of the entrepreneurship courses at the school, we already have several students who will be graduating in Spring 2015 with the concentration included in their degree...see more.

Guest Speakers Share Their Journeys with Students

As the Pillsbury Institute grows, we are able to provide more opportunities for key leaders in the industry to engage with students...see more.


Engagement

Pillsbury Institute Advisory Board Welcomes New Members
This fall the Advisory Board of the Pillsbury Institute welcomed several new members:

Stephen Asprinio ’04 – A chef, a sommelier, a restaurateur – each of these titles applies to Stephen. It is rare for someone in the hospitality industry to have been a chef as well as a sommelier...see more.


Visiting Entrepreneurs Increases Student Engagement
This academic year, the Institute welcomed two new entrepreneurs in residence, Kent Bruggeman and Emily Gottschalk ’82 to hold appointments along with returning entrepreneur, Nick Bayer ‘00...see more.

The Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows Program at Cornell
The Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows Program at Cornell is helping expand entrepreneurship education at Cornell, and The Pillsbury Institute is leading the way...see more.


Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Supports Veterans with Disabilities
The third annual Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) brought 25 post 9/11 veterans to campus for an intensive week of classes and exercises focusing on food and beverage concepts...see more.


Mentors Needed for Spring 2015
The Connect Entrepreneurial Hotelies Network is a mentorship platform created to engage entrepreneurs at all states of ideation to drive innovation in the hospitality industry...see more.


Year in Review

The 2013-14 academic year was a busy one for The Pillsbury Institute. Highlights include the annual Hospitality Business Plan Competition, Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for Veterans with Disabilities, and the new Coleman Fellows Program...see more.

Experiential Learning
Innovation Network Explores Pop-Up Culture at HUB NYC
The 13th Edition of the Innovation Network took place on November 9th at IMPACT HUB NYC. Key leaders from the hotel industry along with SHA students, recent alumni, faculty and staff came together for an afternoon to hear about innovation happening within the technology and hospitality industries...see more.


Business Plan Competition Semi-finalists Announced
The end of November marked the announcement of the semi-finalists for the annual business plan competition. The following teams made it through the first round of judging and will now need to write and submit a complete business plan by mid-February. At the end of February, we will announce the five finalist teams who will be presenting on March 21st during HEC weekend...see more.


Celebration ’15 – Free Registration for SHA Students!
The Pillsbury Institute will once again be a sponsor of the upcoming 2-day entrepreneurship conference, Celebration, in April. This conference is put on annually by the Entrepreneurship @ Cornell program. At last year’s conference, we brought over ten alumni to campus to speak about entrepreneurship on two different panels...see more.


Hospitality Entrepreneurship Roundtable Launches in February
The next Hospitality Entrepreneurship Roundtable, scheduled for February 2015 and produced by the Pillsbury Institute, will delve into several critical issues for entrepreneurs. Topics include the use of franchises as an entrepreneurial approach, and how to recognize market opportunities in the food and beverage industry...see more.


Reflections of a Visiting Research Scholar

As a Visiting Research Scholar this Fall semester of 2014, I have been immersed in a number of research projects that have given me a deeper understanding and connection with the three core facets of the Pillsbury Institute: education, experience, and engagement. While conducting research on the intersection of English learners and the respective implications for university-level instruction of entrepreneurship with Assistant Academic Director, Mona Anita Olsen, Ph.D., the Pillsbury Institute has given me a new lens to understand the international student experience in various entrepreneurship courses...see more.


About the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship

An operating unit of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, the Pillsbury Institute supports the academic entrepreneurial curriculum through three core facets: education, experience, and engagement. Our student-focused, practical entrepreneurship course offerings link the academic and the practical at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Our business-plan centric programs help students obtain experience to reinforce learning. Lastly, we engage with entrepreneurs at all stages of ideation. To learn more about the institute, visit www.pihe.cornell.edu, or contact Kristen Ciferri, Program Manager, at 607.255.0179 or at pihe@cornell.edu.




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