Encouraging Minority Entrepreneurship at MorehouseEncouraging Minority Entrepreneurship at Morehouse
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Four years ago, a representative of an established business plan competition, the ORNL Global Venture Challenge, phonedTiffany Bussey, founding director of the Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center. The representative was looking for minority students with business plans.
As a leader among historically black colleges and universities — and famously the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr. — Morehouse could help, Ms. Bussey said. But the phone call confirmed something she’d already suspected: minority students were not taking full advantage of undergraduate business plan competitions and the opportunities they present for mentorship, networking and financial reward.
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