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Monday: Entreprenerial Panel with Forbes 400 energy entrepreneur N. Malone Mitchell 3rd, Founder of Riata Energy and CEO, Riata Management; Paula Marshall, CEO of The Bama Companies; and Bill Spears, CEO of Energy Education, Inc.

Tuesday: Stan Clark, Founder and CEO, Stan Clark Companies, a diversified national company that started with Eskimo Joe’s

Wednesday: Neal Patterson, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Cerner Corporation, $1.7 billion global leader in health Information technology

Thursday: Jack Allen, Jr., Principal and Chairman of CFR, Inc., on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship

Friday: Don Greiner, CEO of Grace Living Centers, which offers a nationally innovative model for assisted living centers, talking about successful expansion of a family business

Monday, Nov. 16, 2009

• "Entrepreneurship Exposed”, CIE Living Learning Community Exhibits. Student Union Lobby, opposite Bookstore, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
• “Announcement and Launch of the OSU School of Entrepreneurship”, Come & Go reception, 2pm – 4pm; Spears School of Business, BUS 104
• Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Pat Henriques, Entrepreneurial Counseling BUS 101, 2-5p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

• $1000 Elevator Pitch Competition Semi-Finals, Presented by OSU Entrepreneurship Club. Student Union, 5-6 p.m., okstateelevatorpitch.ning.com
• Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Pat Henriques, Entrepreneurial Counseling BUS 101, 2-5p.m.
• Launch of the Annual Campus Creativity Event by the Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship Scholars, Booker Hall, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

• “Goal Orientation as Shaping Entrepreneurial Processes and Firm Performance.” Department of Entrepreneurship Research Series featuring Dr. Justin Webb, Noon, Business Building 105.
• Dilemmas & Debates: “Dilemma of the Harvest/Exit Strategy,” featuring a panel of successful entrepreneurs in diverse business sectors: F. Louis Earlabaugh, Founder and CEO of Beacon Concrete, Los Angeles, CA; Russ Teubner, Founder of Teubner & Associates and Hostbridge Technologies, Stillwater, OK; and David Miller, Founder and CEO of HK Marketing, Tulsa, OK; CLB 112, 6:45 p.m
• $1000 Elevator Pitch Competition Finals, Presented by OSU Entrepreneurship Club. Student Union, 5-6 p.m. okstateelevatorpitch.ning.com
• Lunch with Lunch with Entrepreneurial Provacateur Steve Irby, Founder and CEO of Stillwater
  Design (Kicker Speakers), Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholars at Stillwater
  Design Showroom, 12noon
• Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Pat Henriques, Entrepreneurial Counseling BUS 101, 2-5p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

• $40,000 Riata Business Plan Competition Official Launch: Come into the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship to get your entry packet and a special “first mover” award for the first 20 entries, Business Building Room 101