entrepreneurship News Archive

March 26, 2025 — 
Hosted by the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship, the CPHR Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition brought together over 400 students to test their creative thinking and presentation skills in a unique live pitch contest.

March 19, 2025 — 
Seun Bammeke [BComm(Hons)/10] shares that his love of business started at a young age, watching his brother go out to school each day and come back with more than he left with. An Asper BComm alum, Bammeke is a serial entrepreneur today, starting and running multiple businesses since his formal career beginnings in logistics and supply chain.

February 12, 2025 — 
Experiential learning opportunities like entrepreneurship or industry projects allows you to gain practical, interactive experience related to your interests that can help you achieve your career goals.

January 21, 2025 — 
Matt Schaubroeck [MBA/17] is Principal and CEO of Leverage Point Consulting, where he works with start-ups and founders seeking to pursue business that has a positive impact on the world—fellow entrepreneurs with the drive not just to start a business but to do business differently. The role is a natural fit for Schaubroeck, a founder who thrives in the execution.

December 20, 2024 — 
What if scholars could capture how a country collectively feels and thinks about a subject, even in an age of information overload? Wenxi Pu (Associate Dean, Assistant Professor, The Associates Fellow in Innovation) has spent about eight years working to do just that in a piece now published in the FT50-ranked Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

December 20, 2024 — 
The University of Manitoba continued its support of entrepreneurial thinking with a second Better Together learning event November 12 and 13, hosted by The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. Fittingly held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, the event brought together nearly 50 participants from 11 different faculties together in a non-competitive design sprint to solve real challenges facing the university.

December 5, 2024 — 
Shop local with unique businesses led by Asper School of Business alumni and students!

December 2, 2024 — 
Nearly 100 people gathered for the inaugural Entrepreneurship & Innovative Thinking Faculty Symposium on Monday, November 25th. The collaborative event hosted by The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship, IDEA START, and Partnerships, Knowledge Mobilization and Innovation, brought together our UM community to learn about entrepreneurship in various forms.

November 25, 2024 — 
On November 14, 2024, students from the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Indigenous Business Education Partners (IBEP) at the Asper School of Business came together at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg to celebrate the 18th annual Visionary Indigenous Business Excellence (VIBE) Awards. The event, hosted by IBEP, coincided with the 30th anniversary of IBEP, marking three decades of fostering community, education, and Indigenous business leadership.

November 22, 2024 — 
On November 6, 2024, law students from the Faculty of Law’s L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic, Ravi Balchan (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/2022], Alli Knox (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/2017], and Jordan Wagner (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/2022], all Asper School of Business graduates, hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship entitled Startup Law 101: Protect Your New Venture.