Poole College Announces Jenkins MBA Program’s Entrepreneurship Fellowship Recipients
Michael Teal, Barton Strawn, and James H. Locus III, were awarded Entrepreneurship Fellowships this fall by the North Carolina State University Poole College of Management’s Jenkins MBA program.
As part of their fellowships, the students are assisting faculty and other student teams in the Jenkins MBA program’s entrepreneurship and technology commercialization concentration. Students in this concentration, including the three Entrepreneurship Fellows, use a faculty-developed process to assess the commercialization potential of new technologies being developed in the University of North Carolina system and by other sources. The student teams first screen technologies for commercial potential. They then select one technology that they have determined has the greatest potential for success and develop a business plan for it. Increasingly, one or more students from the teams have been taking the classroom experience into the business development stage after graduating.
The three fellowship recipients came into the Jenkins MBA program with prior experience in entrepreneurship or technology. Strawn is an entrepreneur who launched the Lumina Clothing Company in Raleigh, N.C., and says that he is already incorporating his classroom learning into his business operations. Barton has held marketing, consulting and business development roles in several organizations, and Teal was a software engineer before entering the Jenkins MBA program. Both aspire to start businesses of their own. Read more about them on the Jenkins MBA website.
The NC State Jenkins MBA program emphasizes the management of innovation and technology. It offers full-time, part-time for working professionals, and online options, with seven areas of concentration and seven dual degree options. Its part-time MBA option was ranked 30th by Bloomberg BusinessWeek in rankings published Nov. 11, 2011. Additional information about the NC State Jenkins MBA program and its fellowship opportunities are available at the Jenkins MBA website.
Current and future students interested in applying for the HiTEC Fellowship program may contact Jen Arthur, assistant director, NC State Poole College Jenkins MBA program.
Author: Linda McKnight for the NC State Poole College of Management
