Hosted by the University of Manitoba, the annual Stu Clark New Venture Championships were held at the Fort Garry Hotel between April 25 and 27. During the three-day competition, teams presented business plans and delivered video pitches to an expert panel of judges, who provided feedback.

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“We’ve been doing this for over 20 years now,” said Debra Jonasson-Young, the I.H. Asper executive director for entrepreneurship at the Stu Clark Centre at the University of Manitoba.

Jonasson-Young noted that participants this year included universities such Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, Toronto, McMaster, and British Columbia.

“It provides students with a magical opportunity to compete with each other, make presentations, and think through everything involved with how a business works,” she said.

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Anne Mahon named Leader-in-Residence of Burns Leadership Institute

Suzanne Gagnon, James W. Burns Leadership Institute Director and Asper School of Business Associate Dean Research and Graduate Research Programs, sits down with University of Manitoba Chancellor Emeritus Anne Mahon, who has been named Burns Leadership Institute Leader-in-Residence.

Asper School of Business