Business Matters

Entrepreneurship Panel Welcomes Leaders in Creativity and Commerce

Striving for diversity in Portland’s creative business

In the summer of 2020, longtime Portland designer Audrey Desler was paying attention to promises creative, advertising and marketing agencies made to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion and create positive change.

Launch Academy Earns Top Prizes at InventOR

The entrepreneurs from Launch Academy, the incubator program run through OSU’s InnovationX brought home top honors and prize money at the 2023 Invent Oregon Collegiate Challenge.

Industrial Hemp: Taking the Thoughtful, Respectful Approach to a New Opportunity

Crafting the perfect business plan, leveraging a team of subject-matter experts, doing everything as close to right – the first time. That is what three College of Business centers for excellence are striving for in their work on $10 million OSU Global Hemp Innovation Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture project.

Teaching College Finances and Lifetime Financial Planning with CAFE

Kayleen Salchenberg knows college finances and financial aid like an old friend – she lived it as an undergrad, choosing OSU for its generous support. Salchenberg now manages the Center Advancing for Financial Education in the College of Business and is passionate about educating students about much more than FAFSA forms to support their planning for a healthy, balanced, and financially secure future.

Personal Selling Takes Deep Dive into Female Perspective for Inclusive Learning

The mentors for the Personal Selling class provided invaluable knowledge and experience to our students, and we thank them for dedicating their time and supporting us.

Supply Chain Expert Tinglong Dai Talks Bellwether Events and ESG Opportunities

Leading medical supply chain expert discusses "Global Supply Chain Challenges: Is a New Economic Iron Curtain Next?"

With Sunkst Swim, Enjoli Rodriguez Designs for Plus-Sized Customers

Enjoli Rodriguez’s focus on the plus-sized market for a swimwear line is a smart business tactic as well as a demonstration of her commitment to inclusivity.

Papé, Inc.’s focus on customers has been a key to their success

Andersen Construction creates opportunities through leadership change

Maletis family carries legacy of Oregon Fruit Products forward

Sullivan siblings apply family values to the work culture at Alyrica

4th in Nation: OSU Sales Academy Sees Success through Leadership and Commitment

Roast-to-order Coffee is Niche Space for Howling Hounds

Reid Burford discovered a simple truth – freshly roasted coffee is better coffee. And he founded a business.

Setting our sights on zero: How we define future success

Many mainstream stories of entrepreneurial success feature people who have benefited from seeing role models who look and sound like themselves thriving as business owners. When I had a chance to build a team and launch a new entrepreneurship center at Oregon State University about five years ago, I set about charting a different course, using the framework of inclusive design.

Data analytics and ethics: A conversation with Lutz Beck

The Basics of DEI in a Free, Online Course

Get started on achieving your strategic goals about diversity, equity and inclusion, right here — for free.

Launch Academy Fall Competition Showcases Best-of-Term Business Concepts

A lighting system for vehicles adjusts high and low beams for safer driving, wellness services centered on meditation, and an app for disaster preparedness...

A New Foundation for the Northwest’s Hemp Industry

The College of Business is an integral part of OSU's new $10 million grant for the Global Hemp Innovation Center from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

OSU, VentureWell Build Flexible, Innovative Partnership for Creative, Sustainability-Minded Students

An important new OSU multidisciplinary engineering and design initiative receives funding from national innovation nonprofit, VentureWell.

OSU Sales Academy Renews, Expands Portfolio of Key Industry Sponsors

The OSU Sales Academy opens a new year of learning, engagement and pitch competitions with a strong portfolio of industry sponsors. 2021 brings six new companies to the Sales Academy, and continued or heightened commitments from six current sponsors.

OnPoint Builds Custom DEI Trainings

Working with Oregon State University’s Center for Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Business, OnPoint launched self-paced DEI learning modules.

A Rising Star: Launch Academy

The Deshpande Foundation, which supports sustainable, scalable social and economic impact through innovation and entrepreneurship, named Launch Academy, our student business incubator, a recipient of the Rising Star Award for Excellence in Curriculum Innovation.

Ausland Group builds on family business legacy

Husband and wife, Aaron and Kelsy Ausland, had a vision: a company that integrated architecture, engineering and construction.