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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. 

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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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      WWII: Bombs over Hong Kong

      by Vivek Rawat
      New book by English professor Steven Bailey tells the story of American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong Kong during WWII.

      In Hong Kong, stories of construction workers finding unexploded bombs dropped during WWII are not uncommon. However, not much is known about the men who dropped them — that's why Steven Bailey, faculty member in the English department at Central Michigan University, is filling in the gaps with his new book "Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945."

      In the book, Bailey explores the American bombings of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. The book grew from Bailey's fascination with the military history of Hong Kong, and his observation that the American side of the story seemed to be missing.

      "I started reading everything I could, and it soon became apparent that this aspect of the story had never been told," said Bailey.

      He spent eight years combing through WWII accounts and archives to gather information for the book. It is considered a work of narrative nonfiction and is intended for a nonacademic audience.

      "I hope it gives people in Hong Kong a better sense of their own history and how the United States factors into Hong Kong's history," Bailey said.

      "Bold Venture: The American bombings of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945" will be released March 1, 2019.

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