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Entrepreneurship: Be Your Own Boss

BossThe fundamentals of entrepreneurship are experienced through a series of workshop activities. The team-taught course guides participants through identification of a business concept and development of a business plan. Students are placed in an environment constructed to resemble a business skunk-works.

During the Entrepreneurship Summer Camp, campers will get to visit numerous companies. These field site visits will help campers better learn entrepreneurship straight from an entrepreneur themselves.

Driving to and from locations will be provided with food as well. Check out the links below to see what exciting field trips we have planned for Summer 2010!

  • Say Security
  • Wilson Sporting Goods
  • Kewpee Tour
  • Duff Quarry

To register, or for more information about ONU's Summer Honors Institute, contact Dr. Dennis DeLuca at (419) 772-2331 or summerinstitute@onu.edu

Facility

Your experience of creating a new business will occur in Dicke Hall, home of the College of Business Administration. Dicke Hall is a new state of the art facility featuring the latest in resources, computing facilities, and group work space needed to build a successful entrepreneurial venture. The Institute will be housed in a Start-Up Center, a space configured like a start-up business office. Three field trips will expose you to entrepreneurship in small and large companies.

Faculty

Robert E. Kleine, III, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Marketing at the College of Business, Ohio Northern University. He holds a BSBA from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Cincinnati. His research is published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, Advances in Consumer Research, and Research in Consumer Behavior. He frequently presents at national conferences. In addition, to consulting activities, Kleine has started and operates two businesses.

Rob Lydic is one of two founding partners in Structured Innovations LLC, a telecommunications manufacturer's representative firm that covers a six state region representing eight premier manufacturers. Structured Innovations has 10 employees with 7 to 27 years experience in the telecommunications industry representing the company in major markets throughout the Midwest. After its founding in March of 2001, Structured Innovations has grown sales for their manufacturers upwards of $30 million. Rob has been a member of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), Columbus Chapter, since November of 2003 and has served on several entrepreneurial leadership panels at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. Rob graduated in 1997 from Ohio Northern University with a Bachelor's of Science in Environmental Science and Biology, and attended graduate school at Texas State University in Higher Education Administration. Rob currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Ohio Northern University College of Business.

Other faculty include Jill Christopher, Dexter Woods, Jeff Heinfeldt, and Dan Ferguson.