College of Business

Venture Capital Challenge: Win money for your ideas
Announcement    Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Join us for the Venture Capital Challenge March 27 from 1 until 4 p.m. This business pitch competition takes only five minutes. There are only five questions. Best Presentation: $400 Runner-Up: $200 Most Innovative Idea: $100 Email nicholas.creel@gcsu.edu or call 979-373-8901 to reserve your spot in the competition.
Venture Capital Challenge: Win money for your ideas
Event    Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Join us for the Venture Capital Challenge. This business pitch competition takes only five minutes. There are only five questions. Best Presentation: $400 Runner-Up: $200 Most Innovative Idea: $100 Email nicholas.creel@gcsu.edu or call 979-373-8901 to reserve your spot in the competition.
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Bobcat Business Builder Bootcamp
Event    Thursday, March 7, 2024
Got a business idea? Do you have dreams of owning a company one day? Join us at the Bobcat Business Builder Bootcamp, and we'll help you get started. What will be there? Free Chick-Fil-A Renowned Speaker Ward Risvold, lecturer of Business Communications Tour of the Maker's Space led by Hasitha Mahabaduge, associate professor of Physics Business plan development Investor pitch walkthrough  
Bobcat Business Builder Bootcamp
Event    Sunday, March 17, 2024
Got a business idea? Do you have dreams of owning a company one day? Join us at the Bobcat Business Builder Bootcamp, and we'll help you get started. What will be there? Free Chick-Fil-A for pre-register Renowned Speaker Ward Risvold, lecturer of Business Communications Tour of the Maker's Space lead by Hasitha Mahabaduge, associate professor of Physics Business plan development Investor pitch walkthrough To sign up, call Dr. Nicholas Creel at 979-373-8901 or email him...
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$100,000 allocated to GCSU’s new student-managed investment fund
News Story    Wednesday, February 21, 2024
The Georgia College & State University Foundation allocated $100,000 to a new club, the GCSU Student Managed Investments Committee.   Led by five leadership board members, the new student group will complete internal analysis and pitch ideas for investing their fund to Georgia College’s Foundation Board of Trustees and the Finance and Investment Committee. “We are proud to make an investment in these students that will result in giving them workforce skills in a competitive market,”...
The AI Lab's GC Bizcast Team dives into the future of AI-powered content creation with Grant Lee, CEO and co-founder of Gamma
Announcement    Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Discover how Gamma is revolutionizing the way we create documents, presentations and webpages in mere seconds. Podcasters: Sruti Sajja; Aaliyah Turman Producer: Dr. Ward Risvold Editor: Evelina Galova-Iossifov https://youtu.be/ug4Fk9lVfFk  
From the desk of the dean: February edition
Announcement    Wednesday, February 14, 2024
We invite our colleagues to read our monthly newsletter, From the Desk of the Dean. The February edition covers our U.S. News & World Report rankings, updates from our finance majors and the exciting accomplishments of our faculty and staff. 
Dr. Brent Evans talks about our new finance major and student-led Investment Committee
Announcement    Friday, February 9, 2024
The AI Lab and GC Bizcast presents Dr. Brent Evans, who shares information about our new finance major and the groundbreaking student-led Investment Committee at Georgia College & State University. Discover how these initiatives are shaping the future of finance education and empowering students to take the lead in real-world financial management. Podcasters: Joe Dubsky and Jeffrey DiBenedetto Producer: Dr. Ward Risvold Editor: Evelina Galova-Iossifov https://youtu.be/uZO_ex5Gv44?si=4F76qTntFwXXEHcG...
Doug and Frank Pendergast, owners of Greene's and The Brick, presented by Entrepreneurs Club
Announcement    Wednesday, February 7, 2024
The Georgia College & State University Entrepreneurs Club has its first speaker meeting on Thursday, Feb. 8, from 5 until 6 p.m. in Atkinson, room 202, and we want to invite you. Doug Pendergast, the new owner of Greene’s Farmhouse Foods will speak. Doug has a Harvard MBA and was a past consultant with McKinsey, former VP of Operations at both Church’s Chicken and Popeyes and former CEO of both Quiznos and Krystal’s. Doug's brother, Frank, the owner of the Brick, will also speak. Join...
Doug and Frank Pendergast, owners of Greene's and The Brick, presented by Entrepreneurs Club
Event    Thursday, February 8, 2024
The Georgia College & State University Entrepreneurs Club has its first speaker meeting on Thursday, Feb. 8, from 5 until 6 p.m. in Atkinson, room 202, and we want to invite you. Doug Pendergast, the new owner of Greene’s Farmhouse Foods will speak. Doug has a Harvard MBA and was a past consultant with McKinsey, former VP of Operations at both Church’s Chicken and Popeyes and former CEO of both Quiznos and Krystal’s. Doug's brother, Frank, the owner of the Brick, will also speak. Join...
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