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Young Entrepreneurs @ Ashland is a week-long, day program for all students entering grades 8 - 12.
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Itinerary:
- experience simulated start-up of a virtual business
- learn about e-commerce and the global economy
- develop marketing and sales techniques
- enhance leadership and management skills
- engage in new product development
- manage a simulated portfolio on the stock exchange
- work with University professors
- learn in state-of-the-art business facilities
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Highlights include:
- creativity & innovation - generating new ideas and strategies
- product development - from ideation to fabrication
- finance - cash and credit management
- marketing - advertising, promoting and selling
- accounting - completing financial reports
- e-commerce - the marketplace of the 21st century
- business law - ethics and standards
- business start-up - manage a virtual business
- stock trading - developing a portfolio
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For more information contact:
Read F. Wakefield, director
Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
419.289.5039 | rwakefie@ashland.edu
Event Date:
07/19/2010 - 9:00am - 07/23/2010 - 4:00pm