There are so many facets to the School of Management at the University at Buffalo that it is sometimes hard to capture all of what is going on and the breadth of opportunity for student involvement. I received the email below from the director of our Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. I thought readers would find this an interesting example that says a lot about our involvement with local development efforts and collaborative work across the university.
David:
Seven MBA students participated in the Pre-Seed Workshop at the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences on June 8, 9, and 16. The Pre-Seed Workshop is part of the grant 
that we worked on jointly with the COE and is vital piece of “the entrepreneurial pipeline” that we are trying to build in WNY. Each student was a member of a team that consisted of idea champions, technical champions, tech transfer representatives, legal experts, business advisors, MBA students, and a coach. The spent approx. 20 hours in sessions with these teams and gave their input on advancing the “idea champions” to their next level of business development. Many of them spent additional time working on the projects outside of the classroom setting for several more hours than the 20 mentioned. They were all very helpful and the feedback on their participation was outstanding. They contributed greatly to the teams and added value to the entire event. Thank you for loaning us some of your students. I’m hoping that this “real world” experience will be helpful in their professional development going forward.
“Idea Champions” were:
Dr. Khushi Matta – Roswell Park
Dr. Ashwani Sood – Roswell Park
MMC Lipid Bioservices – Niagara University
Terra Specter – 2009 second place Panasci team
Universal Coherence Imaging – UB Technology
Dr. Julian Ambrus – UB
NanoAxis – 2008 first place Panasci team
Si-Revolution Solar Ltd – UB Technology
Dr. Ranjit – UB Technology
Participating students were:
Ali Zeeshan
Matt Bertrand
Christopher Bodkin
Swapnil Kachare
Amy Monin
Manish Sabnis
Javier Sullivan
Many thanks!
Tom
Thomas R. Ulbrich
Executive Director
University at Buffalo
School of Management
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
672 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14209
Tel: (716) 885-5715 Fax: (716)885-5718
E-mail: tulbrich@buffalo.edu
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