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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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      The week in photos: Feb. 26-March 3

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      Some of the top photos from Central Michigan University events and activities during the week of Feb. 26-March 3 as captured by University Communications.

      Two fashion design students, one wearing a white dress and the other wearing black pants, a black shirt and a black hat, stand in front of a mirror discussing clothing design while a third student in the foreground listens in.
      CMU students Charlize Wright and Gaia Herrick work together to design an accessible garment for people with disabilities in the sewing lab in Wightman Hall.
      A small group of students stand around the Black Pioneers in Medicine exhibit inside the Rowe Hall. The exhibit is bright and metallic, with displays showcasing contributions of Black individuals in medicine.
      A group of CMU students participate in a scavenger hunt at the Black Pioneers in Medicine event, held at CMU’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History in Rowe Hall. The event honored the major contributions of Black individuals in medicine.
      Wearing headphones, a suit coat, white shirt and signature bowtie, CMU physics professor Aaron LaCluyzé sits at a round table in front of a maroon background talking into a microphone during a podcast recording.
      Physics faculty member Aaron LaCluyzé discusses the impacts of light pollution and the science of the solar eclipse on upcoming episodes of CMU’s official podcast, The Search Bar.
      Wearing a black outfit, faculty member Ian Mull stands in front of a classroom of students as a projector behind him displays information about the Threads fashion show.
      Faculty member Ian Mull leads his class in a lecture in Wightman Hall. Students in Mull’s class are planning the Threads fashion show, one of the Fashion Merchandising & Design program’s signature events.
      Approximately a dozen students stand in a large circle inside a large, round room taking part in an improv workshop with actor and CMU alum Larry Joe Campbell.
      Actor, comedian, and CMU alum Larry Joe Campbell hosts a workshop for CMU theatre students in the Townsend Kiva inside Moore Hall.

       

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