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Winnipeg Free Press: Mark Chipman to receive Ignite Award

November 24, 2023 —

Mark Chipman is to be the third recipient of the Ignite Award, sponsored by the Young Associates of the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba.

The award is presented to a local leader whose passion and skills have created legacy in business and for the city and province.

Mathew Thomson, the Ignite committee chair, said “Mark Chipman and True North continue to take bold and innovative actions in business and community leadership which ignite and propel our city forward. When we think about a local leader to inspire Asper students, Mark is a first-round pick. I am thrilled to honour him as our next Ignite recipient.”

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Taking a national temperature check on entrepreneurship

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.

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BComm Spotlight

BComm student Habiba Mohamed saves everything. With each new country she visits, Mohamed keeps train tickets, postcards, and keychains. When she gets back home, she arranges them carefully into a single scrapbook page, a glimpse of another Asper adventure.

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