The Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project +Impact Studio for Local Business (DNEP +ISLB) is an internship program for U-M students interested in applying their skills to help Detroit-based small business owners (re)grow their businesses. The...
The Center on Finance, Law & Policy’s “blue bag lunches” aim to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and showcase the work being done at the University of Michigan on issues related to finance, law, and policy. Faculty are welcome to present...
The DNEP +Impact Studio for Local Business started in the summer of 2020 as an emergency pilot program, bringing University of Michigan students together to help local businesses pivot operations to meet new COVID-19 restrictions. When the call for...
After more than a year of COVID-19 pivoting and innovating, Detroit business owners told us they needed action, not advice. So in 2021, we recruited 31 student interns for the DNEP +Impact Studio for Local Business (+ISLB) and divided them into...
Undergraduate and graduate students apply their skills to help Detroit’s small businesses (re)grow in the COVID economy through DNEP +Impact Studio for Local Business (DNEP +ISLB) internships. The +ISLB is a collaboration between U-M’s Center on...
Professor Michael Gordon of the Ross School of Business will be offering a new course beginning April 1, FINANCE FOR SOCIETAL GOOD (Entrepreneurial Studies 444 / Entrepreneurial Studies 644). A full description is listed below:
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The U.S. has an enviable entrepreneurial culture and vibrant capital markets, which help foster small business formation, create jobs, and increase economic growth. But, at the same time, we need to do more to ensure minority and women entrepreneurs...
Small businesses are at the heart of our country's economic resurgence, placing job creation and economic control and mobility in the hands of the community. Yet, uneven access and familiarity with technology can severely limit businesses' growth and success, especially in resource-constrained communities. In partnership with local nonprofit community organization Jefferson East Inc., an interdisciplinary team from the University of Michigan is working to address this digital divide for Detroit entrepreneurs.
The Community Tech Workers project will pair three local residents with three U-M...
