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Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship

We are a dedicated institute for student entrepreneurs across campus and beyond. We aim to maximize your success by fostering your entrepreneurial mindset, promote inter-disciplinary collaboration and provide support for the creation and development of your new ventures. Jumpstart your ideas and get involved today!

Tune in for excitement!

Passion. Potential. Pitches. Don't miss any of the 2025 New Venture Challenge excitement.

Tune in Friday, April 11 at 1 p.m. for great ideas and fierce competition. Then, join the judges, mentors, spectators and teams as they see who is going home with thousands of dollars in venture financing. The awards broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. and one team will walk away as the overall best venture. 

Start your entrepreneurial journey

Central Michigan University’s College of Business Administration is the home of the Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship and the first Department of Entrepreneurship in the state of Michigan. We are a student-centric hub where experiential, curricular, and external entrepreneurial opportunities intersect.

Our mission is to maximize student success by fostering a campus-wide entrepreneurial mindset that promotes inter-disciplinary collaboration and the creation of new ventures.

We aim to create innovative programming, boost cross-campus and ecosystem collaboration and provide a comprehensive mentoring program.

Our institute provides extracurricular opportunities and is open to all undergraduate and graduate CMU students.

Student opportunities

  • Meet experienced alumni, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and other business and political leaders.
  • Learn practical skills, innovative thinking, and connect with mentors and entrepreneurial resources.
  • Attend skill-building workshops and compete in pitch competitions and Hackathons.
  • Take part in special scholarship programs and travel experiences.
  • Pitch your venture at our signature New Venture Challenge event and compete for up to $20,000 in cash awards.

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      A new look at the New Deal

      by Sanjna Jassi
      New book by economics faculty member Jason Taylor examines the economic impact of the National industrial Recovery Act of 1933.

      ​A new book by Central Michigan University economics professor Jason Taylor sheds new light on America's economic recovery following the Great Depression.

      The University of Chicago Press published "Deconstructing the Monolith: The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act" earlier this year.

      President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the National Recovery Act in 1933 to boost the nation's recovery from the Great Depression. The policy forced companies to agree upon industry-level codes of competition that regulated wages, working hours, price fixing, production quotas and more.

      mug-JasonTaylorTaylor said the impacts of the act have been traditionally examined through a macroeconomic lens, resulting in a harmful view for all industries. In his new book, Taylor chose instead to examine the policy using microeconomic tools to discover that the effects varied in each industry.

      "Economists' treatment of the National Industrial Recovery Act as a monolith policy is a gross oversimplification; in fact, the program affected different industries differently," Taylor said.

      Taylor has studied New Deal-era policies for more than 20 years and has written several scholarly articles on the effects of the NIRA.

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