Spears School to celebrate Business Week this week

Oklahoma State University's Business Student Council will serve up a variety of food, facts and fun September 14-18 to celebrate Business Week 2009. Business Week is an annual five-day event sponsored by BSC to showcase the Spears School of Business. The celebration features activities and events designed to educate OSU students about the opportunities the Spears School offers and help prepare them for life after college.

Please see list of upcoming events below for complete schedule.

Creativity expert to speak today

STILLWATER, Okla. – The Oklahoma State University Creativity Initiative, the OSU Department of Entrepreneurship and the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business will host national creativity expert Jeff Stamp on Sept. 16, 2009, at 2 p.m. in the Student Union Little Theatre.

Stamp will shed insight about personal creativity and how to develop creative problem-solving skills in a presentation titled “Thinking Creatively About Creativity - It Isn’t Just About Ideas.

“Dr. Stamp is one of the top experts on creativity and ideation in the country,” said Michael Morris, N. Malone Mitchell, Jr. Chair in Entrepreneurship and head of the OSU Department of Entrepreneurship. “As a leading educator, Dr. Stamp is helpful in shedding insights not only on our own creativity, but how to get our students and employees to develop their creative problem-solving skills".

Stamp was the inventor, creator, and brand manager of “Baked Lays”, for PepsiCo’s snack division Frito-Lay. He was also principal at the Eureka Ranch, a leading creativity center. Stamp currently serves as chair of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of North Dakota and the CEO of Bold Thinking, LLC.

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Spears School to dedicate Riata Center for Entrepreneurship on Sept. 25

The Spears School of Business will celebrate the grand opening of the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship on Sept. 25, 2009, at 11 a.m. The Riata Center was made possible by a transformational $28.6 million gift from OSU alumni Amy and Malone Mitchell 3rd in 2008. The Mitchell’s gift was the largest donation ever to a university entrepreneurship program, and it created both the Riata Center and the OSU Department of Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business.