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Eleven business students named Spears Distinguished Seniors for 2025-26 academic year

Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business has named 11 students Spears Distinguished Seniors for the 2025-26 academic year.
Eleven business students named Spears Distinguished Seniors for 2025-26 academic year
Reinvigorating Your Workforce virtual series will help to motivate employees, new hires

Tue, Aug 18, 2020

The Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business is offering a new virtual "Reinvigorating Your Workforce" series for organizations to bring onsite.

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OSU I-Corps teams receive grants of $200,000 from National Science Foundation

Wed, Aug 12, 2020

Four groups of Oklahoma State University students, faculty and industry mentors have each been selected to receive $50,000 grants and additional mentoring through the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program.

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Riding high on Bubble Calm

Mon, Jul 27, 2020

You would think that the two Oklahoma State University students who started a business selling a gum that promotes feelings of calmness would have done well at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with all the fear surrounding it. But like nearly

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OSU entrepreneurs present winning business plans

Wed, Apr 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic couldn't prevent Oklahoma State University student entrepreneurs from competing in and winning awards in a virtual 2020 Love's Entrepreneur's Cup and finishing in the top four of an international college business plan

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Making the Most of the Circumstances

Fri, Apr 24, 2020

Chandler Goodman considers himself an opportunist, so when the Oklahoma State University senior found himself sitting at his parent's home after the family's Oklahoma City business had been classified non-essential and closed on March 26, he sprang

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Students claim $45,000 in prize money in Riata Business Plan Competition

Thu, Feb 6, 2020

The Oklahoma State University School for Entrepreneurship and the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship have named winners of the annual student competition to create business startups at the event finals Jan. 31. The Riata Business Plan Competition at

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Students pitch business plans for prize money

Mon, Jan 27, 2020

Semi-finalists in the annual student Riata Business Plan Competition have been selected to compete Friday, Jan. 31, for $45,000 in prize money in the competition's finals. Hosted by the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship and the School of

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Student entrepreneurs continue winning ways

Fri, Dec 20, 2019

Oklahoma State University student entrepreneurs Rabecca Wiseman and Brooks Robison have been named semifinalists in the ASU Innovation Open 2020 business pitch competition, which offers $300,000 in prize money to collegiate business startups. Wiseman

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Face2Face with Rachel Brown

Mon, Dec 2, 2019

Rachel Brown's approach to her education at Oklahoma State University, and life in general, can best be described as "all in." Brown, a senior, immersed herself in the Spears School of Business and in her major, entrepreneurship. From working in the

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A decade of educating student entrepreneurs celebrated

Mon, Nov 4, 2019

The Oklahoma State University School of Entrepreneurship marks its 10th anniversary in November by celebrating milestones including nearly 950 entrepreneurship degrees conferred and the launch of more than 200 student businesses that have raised

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