MOREHOUSE COLLEGE

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Entrepreneurship Center
Finding A Niche The Code Of
Success Historically Black Colleges/Universities
(HBCUs) STTR/SBIR and HBCU/MI Conference January
30 -31, 2005
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MOREHOUSE COLLEGEThe College-At-A-Glance

• The nations largest private, independent,
  liberal arts, Historically Black College for men
• Our mission is to develop men for leadership and
  service
• Enrolls approximately 2,800 students from 40
  states 12 countries
• Employs 176 full-time faculty, with 100 of
  tenure faculty holding doctoral degrees
• Graduates approximately 500 students each year,
  conferring bachelors degrees in 26 majors

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MOREHOUSE COLLEGEBusiness Model
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MOREHOUSE COLLEGEEntrepreneurship

• Mission
• To assist in the development of minority
  entrepreneurship through training, scholarly
  research and consultative services
• Goals
• To assist small businesses in growing through
  training, workshops, seminars and procurement
• To provide research and advisory services to
  small businesses
• To assist college graduates in obtaining advanced
  degrees in Entrepreneurship

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MOREHOUSE COLLEGEEntrepreneurship
CenterBusiness Services Mentor Protégé Program
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MOREHOUSE COLLEGEEntrepreneurship
CenterBusiness Services Mentor Protégé Program
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MOREHOUSE COLLEGEKey To Success

• Sound infrastructure to support contracting
• Top management support
• Partnership, Partnership, Partnership.
• Long lasting mutually beneficial relationship
• Real world business experience for our students
• Practical research opportunities for our faculty
• Internship /employment opportunities for our
  students
• Marketability and branding of Morehouse name and
  reputation

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MOREHOUSE COLLEGEWhat Our Customers are Saying
About Us.

• MCEC has been a pleasure to work with. EDS
  appreciates the phenomenal support provided to
  the EDS Mentor Protégé Program. Deborah Hamilton
  Jackson, Program Manager, EDS
• Its been a pleasure to work with the MCEC.
  They are very responsive and always looking for
  improved ways to support us. They have been a
  capable and supportive partner, which is what
  we need as we work with our protégé firms.
  Brooke Cruter, Program Manager, Booz Allen
  Hamilton
• MCEC is an absolute pleasure to work with
  exact, detailed oriented, customer focused and
  I dont use those attributes lightly! Thanks for
  the great support
• Rod Thomas, Program Manager, ATT

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MOREHOUSE COLLEGE Other Areas of Research
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Doing Businesswith MOREHOUSE COLLEGE

• Entrepreneurship Center
• Morehouse College
• 830 Westview Drive, S.W.
• Leadership Center
• Atlanta, GA 30314
• Tiffany Bussey 404-681-2800 Ext. 2291
• E-mail tbussey_at_morehouse.edu
• Oscar Sistrunk (osistrun_at_morehouse.edu)