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ENTREPRENEURIALLEADERSHIP@CLARKSONSpring 2022Welcome to the first newsletter ofEntrepreneurial Leadership @ Clarksonntrepreneurship has been in the DNA of Clarkson University since its foundation 125 years ago. TheUniversity founders, the Clarksons, were successful entrepreneurs themselves. Their dedication tobusiness creation and innovation to create value and benefit society has remained a guiding forceof the institution and of the David D. Reh School of Business, named in honor of its greatest philanthropist.DAVID REH ’62, H’17 was a successful business leader, serial entrepreneur and humanitarian who sharedwith our faculty, students and alumni his commitment to entrepreneurial endeavors, ethical leadership and afuturist vision of the role entrepreneurial leadership should play in students’ education.Today, we place entrepreneurial leadership at the center of everything we do.This year, we have increased our interdisciplinary collaboration with the Wallace H. Coulter School ofEngineering to enhance and promote the ideas of entrepreneurial engineers; similarly, we have worked tostrengthen our support of entrepreneurial science. We have also expanded our engagement with the ClarksonIgnite program and the Shipley Center for Innovation to create a truly entrepreneurial ecosystem and enhanceexperiential learning for our undergraduate and MBA students.And we have gone even further!We have expanded our global reach with the launch of a new online entrepreneurial leadership executiveprogram, for which we have received a great deal of interest from prospective participants across the U.S. andLatin America.To boost student learning and support scholarlyChristian Felzenszteininteraction among our faculty, we launched theEntrepreneurship Speaker Series; this year we hostedworld-class intellectuals from the University of Ottawain Canada, Florida International University, CornellUniversity and the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.Enjoy the reading, keep tuned into our newdevelopments and remember:Think entrepreneurship, think Clarkson!— Professor Christian Felzensztein, PhDDavid D. Reh Family Endowed Chairin Entrepreneurial LeadershipAmong the Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies— THE PRINCETON REVIEW AND ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE 2021
2Learning From SuccessThrough the Reh School’s newly created EntrepreneurshipSpeakers Series and other on-campus opportunities, studentsgain firsthand insight into the realities and challenges ofsuccessful business creation, innovation and management.Each year, the Reh School of Business welcomes prominentbusiness leaders, successful entrepreneurs and leading scholarsto share and discuss with students and faculty a range of topicsand experiences related to leadership and entrepreneurship.In addition to allowing students to interact and learn fromexperts in their respective fields, these events provide studentswith opportunities to network and make connections.INNOVATORS ON INNOVATIONInnovation and entrepreneurship are skillsour students learn from internationalguests and faculty who don’t just talk thetalk, but practice what they preach.In February and March, undergraduateinnovation & entrepreneurship majorsand MBA program students withan entrepreneurship focus got theopportunity to learn from world-classentrepreneurs and innovators inperson and online. Professor ChristianFelzensztein, the David D. Reh FamilyEndowed Chair in EntrepreneurialLeadership, led these activities.Guest speakers included: VOLKER GOELZ, vice president andhead of marketing procurement atSAP in Mannheim, Germany, andANDY CHAPMAN, project directorat SAP in London, U.K., who spoketo the MBA entrepreneurship classand undergraduate innovation &entrepreneurship majors. Their talksfocused on the key practicalities ofiCloud solutions for the students’David Crickhigh-tech, born-global startupprojects. The activity, led by ProfessorFelzensztein, helped students developan international entrepreneurshipmindset that focuses on creating newtechnology solutions for projects in theMetaverse and innovations that willhelp the world become a better place. Professor ÇETIN ÇETINKAYA,the Michael ’78 & Janet JesanisEndowed Chair in the Department ofMechanical & Aerospace Engineeringat Clarkson, who won FuzeHub’s2021 Commercialization Competitionfor his ultrasonic characterization/evaluation device startup company.The funds will help him furtherdevelop a prototype of the deviceas he moves from new productdevelopment and productionmethods to the marketplace. Professor DAVED BARRY, the ElmerGates ’50 Professor of InnovativeBusiness Culture in Clarkson’sSchool of Arts & Sciences, whoshowed students how they can useinnovation to succeed in business ideacompetitions and discussed the prosand cons of design thinking. JAMEY HOOSE, director of theShipley Center for Innovation,Clarkson’s entrepreneurial supporthub, who discussed implementinga successful intellectual propertystrategy for startups.A slide from SAP project director Andy Chapman’s online presentation. E N T R E PR E N EU R IA L L E A D E R S H IP @ C L A R KSON
3STEP ON CAMPUS.START A BUSINESSThe Entrepreneurship program atClarkson is one of the few in the countrythat provides a platform for students intheir first college semester to craft plansfor the launch of a business venture thatthe students develop shortly after theyarrive on campus. 20,000 in Venture FundingAwardedA custom-designed stuffed animal thatprovides support to children with autismand those who struggle with anxiety.A recovery device designed to providehands-free therapy for athletes withmuscle strain. An innovation designedto assist rodeo competitors. A companyselling branded clothing in support ofstudent emergency funding needs.These are some of the business plansthat successfully competed for startupfunding this year thanks to the RehSchool of Business’ 25-year tradition ofproviding all first-year business studentswith a chance to pitch their businessideas to a panel of experienced investors.This year, students presentednine innovative ideas to venture fundmanagers, demonstrating that a marketexisted for the concept and that soundfinancial assessment supported therequest for startup capital. Students whochoose to continue with the program willhave the opportunity to use funds thatwere allocated to launch the concept inthe spring semester.“The level of complexity in thestudents’ concepts elevates each year,says MARC COMPEAU, professor ofpractice, who leads the course.DIEGO NOCETTI, interim dean of theReh School of Business, agrees. “Thestudents did an amazing job coming upwith innovative concepts, crafting businessplans for their ideas and presentingtheir plans to the judges. I see immensepotential in this new cohort of students.I look forward to seeing where the RehSchool educational experience takes them.”Spurring Innovation ThroughCompetitionThis spring, the Reh School of Businessis sponsoring the Reh Innovators CapitalInvestment Competition (aka “TheReh Cup”), which challenges first-yearstudents to create a startup venture andcompete for startup funds.This year’s Reh Cup focuses on socialentrepreneurship.Innovative Technology Creates Greener ConcreteKLAW Industries repurposes post-consumer,contaminated glass from recyclingcenters into an eco-friendly partial cementreplacement for use in concrete. Pantheon increases the strength of the concrete bymore than 10%, and is cheaper than existingindustry add-ins, such as fly ash and slag.The company was started in 2019 byJACK LAMURAGLIA TCS’18’21 and TANNER WALLISTCS’18 ’21, along with theirchildhood friend Jacob Rumson(Binghamton University). Thethree developed the uniquepatent-pending process thatremoves unwanted materialsfrom the glass. KLAWIndustries has already won 50,000 in prizes from businessFrom left: Jack Lamuraglia TCS’18 ‘21, Tanner Wallisplan and start-up competitions.TCS’18, ‘21 and Jacob Kumpon klawindustries.comWorking in teams, students enrolledin our introductory innovation andentrepreneurship courses will spend thesemester engaged in the developmentof creative, innovative business venturesthat seek to make a positive impacton society. At the conclusion of thesemester,a panel of faculty and alumnientrepreneurs will award 20,000in startup grant funding to winningbusinesses. Each team will be guidedby a faculty or staff member or alumna/alumnus who has expertise related tosocial venture startups.Online MS in SupplyChain Management– Meets the need for well-trainedprofessionals who plan and managecomplex supply chain enterprises.– New York’s first online MS in supply chainmanagement.– Integrated learning opportunities,including synchronous learningcomponents, in every class.– Interact with renowned facultyand industry experts.Apply Todayclarkson.edu/discover-supply-chainOnline MBA– Customize your degree for maximumflexibility and complete it in just undertwo years.– Take advantage of the same faculty andcoursework as offered in the residentialMBA program.– Choose from one weekend residency or100% online options.– Start any term.Apply Todayclarkson.edu/discover-online-mbaOFFICE OF GRADUATEBUSINESS PROGRAMSbusgrad@clarkson.edu 315-268-6613C L A RKS O N U NIVERSITY DAVID D. R E H S C H O O L O F B U S IN E S S
4REH ENTREPRENEURSHIPSPEAKERS SERIESRecent topics and speakers include:A World-Renowned Expert onInternational EntrepreneurshipProfessor DAVID CRICK, the Paul DesmaraisProfessor of International Entrepreneurshipand Marketing from the Telfer School ofManagement at the University of Ottawa,delivered hybrid (in-person and online)presentations to MBA students andentrepreneurship majors on the topicof international entrepreneurship andborn-global firms. He was also a guestfor the Reh Entrepreneurship SeminarSeries, which involved several faculty talksand meetings with leaders in Clarkson’sentrepreneurship ecosystem.Ashley SweeneyFUNDING STARTUPSDirector of Clarkson IgniteASHLEY SWEENEY and Directorof Shipley Center JAMEYHOOSE offered students aprogram about New York statefunding opportunities for theirtech and global startups. Theprogram was coordinated bythe Reh Family Endowed Chairin Entrepreneurial LeadershipChristian Felzensztein.Clarkson Ignite serves theentire campus as an innovationecosystem that connectsstudents to faculty, staff,alumni and community leadersto gain critical hands-on,creative experience.Jerry HaarA Focus on Entrepreneurship inLatin AmericaIn April, experts on entrepreneurship inLatin America delivered talks to facultyand students.Speakers included Professor JERRYHAAR, executive director for Latin Americanand Caribbean at Florida InternationalUniversity in Miami, where he previouslyserved as director of the EntrepreneurshipCenter; ERNESTO AMOROS, director of theGlobal Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)project, professor of entrepreneurship anddoctoral program director at the Tecnológicode Monterrey in Mexico; and SASCHA FÜRST,former MBA director at EAFIT University inMedellin, Colombia, and research professorin entrepreneurship and innovation at theTecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.Ernesto Amoros A Focus on Entrepreneurship inEmerging MarketsLOURDES CASANOVA, senior lecturer andthe Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director ofthe Emerging Markets Institute in the S.C.Johnson School of Management at CornellUniversity, spoke to Reh School of Businessfaculty and students.Professor Casanova previously servedas a lecturer in the Strategy Department atINSEAD. She is the author and coauthor ofnumerous books and publications, includingthe annual Emerging Market MultinationalsReport; The Era of Chinese Multinationals:Competing for Global Dominance; andFinancing Entrepreneurship and Innovationin Emerging Markets. In 2014 and 2015 shewas named one of the 50 most influentialIbero American intellectuals by Esglobal and,in 2017, one of the 30 most influential IberoAmerican women intellectuals.David Crick (l) and Christian Felzensztein (r)Sascha FürstE N T R E PR E N EU R IA L L E A D E R S H IP @ C L A R KSONLourdes Casanova
5RECENT AND FORTHCOMINGPUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHTFACULTY RESEARCH AWARDSAssociate Professor AMBERSTEPHENSON is a coauthor of thearticle “How Bias Against WomenPersists in Female-DominatedWorkplaces,” published in theHarvard Business Review, March2022 issue.Professor CHRISTIAN FELZENSZTEINis a coauthor of “IndigenousAmber StephensonEntrepreneurial Ecosystems:A Comparison of MapucheEntrepreneurship in Chile and Maori Entrepreneurship inAotearoa New Zealand,” forthcoming in the Journal ofManagement & Organization.Professor Felzensztein is also a coauthor of three recentlypublished articles: “Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Insights FromChile and New Zealand,” in the Journal of Business Research;“Facilitating Entrepreneurship in the Failing Cuban EconomicModel?” in the Journal of Entrepreneurship in EmergingEconomies; and “Do Economic Freedom, Business Experienceand Firm Size Affect Internationalization Speed? Evidence FromSmall Firms in Chile, Colombia and Peru,” in the Journal ofInternational Entrepreneurship.NEW!Reh School of Business faculty recently won internalgrants to develop new projects on entrepreneurship andsustainability:Professor BEBONCHU ATEMS, for a project titled “TheImpact of Technology Shocks on Entrepreneurial JobCreation: U.S. and International Evidence.”Assistant Professor ROHAN CRICHTON, for his project“Uncovering the Responsible Leader in the New GreenHydrogen Economy: An African Context.”Professor CHRISTIAN FELZENSZTEIN, Reh Family EndowedChair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, for the project“Sustainable Development: The Path to Entrepreneurshipand Economic Growth in Cuba.”Bebonchu AtemsRohan CrichtonGLOBAL ONLINE EXECUTIVE PROGRAMON ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIPWhat does effectiveentrepreneurial leadershiplook like, and how doyou adapt to the newworld challenges andmake practical changesto your startups andorganizations?Designed for working professionals, Clarkson University’s entrepreneurial leadershipexecutive education program will give you the opportunity to reflect critically on howyou lead and what entrepreneurial leadership means to you. It will expose you toknowledge, insights, frameworks and tools to help you combine your entrepreneurialspirit and leadership skills in order to bring greater value to yourself, your teams andyour organization.This program explores several major entrepreneurial leadership themes, includinginfluence by example; team motivation and adaptability; and the changes andcomplexity of the new post-pandemic business environment. It will encourage youto evaluate critically the challenges and opportunities encountered in today’s newentrepreneurial leadership.September 2022 ProgramFor more information, hip-programDAVID D. REH SCHOOL OF BUSINESSClarkson UniversityBox 5765, 8 Clarkson AvenuePotsdam, NY 13699
-New York's first online MS in supply chain management. - Integrated learning opportunities, including synchronous learning components, in every class. - Interact with renowned faculty and industry experts. Online MS in Supply Chain Management Online MBA OFFICE OF GRADUATE BUSINESS PROGRAMS busgrad@clarkson.edu 315-268-6613
