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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: Sept. 2-8

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      Some of the top photos from Central Michigan University events and activities during the week of Sept. 2-8 as captured by University Communications.

      A young man is bound to a chair while a young woman gives him a peck on the cheek.
      CMU Summer Theatre showcased their summer shows – Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Nothin’ But a Good Time: An 80’s Mix Tape - for the campus community in Bush Theater. In July, the Summer Theatre program traveled across the state, performing these shows in Whitehall, Traverse City and on Beaver Island.
      Closeup of a gloved hand giving a bowl of ice cream to another person.
      The Office of the President hosted an ice cream social event on Warriner Mall, welcoming faculty, students and staff back for another great year at Central Michigan University.
      President Bob Davies holds a bottle of water and smiles at his wife as the two sit at a table.
      President Bob Davies shares a laugh with his wife, Cindy, during the ice cream social event on Warriner Mall.
      A health professions student examines a medical mannequin.
      Medical students in the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions practiced tracheotomies and installing speech valves on trauma mannequins in the Interprofessional Education and Practice Center.
      A person wearing a headset and looking at two monitors peers through a glass window into an exam room.
      A medical student monitors vitals and communicates through a microphone as students simulated installing speech valves on trauma mannequins in the IPEP Center.

       

       

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