Business Matters

Entrepreneurship Panel Welcomes Leaders in Creativity and Commerce

Inside the college: Highlights reel for winter term

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Big Day, Big Moment, Big Cheese for OSU Entrepreneur

Tate Koenig '12 brings his hopes, dreams, entrepreneurial goals – and the Cheese Chopper – to the ABC television show, Shark Tank.

Staying the Course: Darius Northern

Darius Northern's People of Colour clothing brand makes challenging and provocative statements about race and privilege in the United States.

April’s Crutch: Award-winning business owner and designer takes bold steps

April Davenport, just months before graduation, has an award-winning fashion line, an award-winning business and a position at Billy Footwear, an adaptive shoe company.

It Gets Real: Mental health anti-stigma campaign receives $60k in funds to replicate across Pac-12 schools

Dam Worth It – times twelve – will work to end the stigma around mental health through three pillars: education, resources and peer-based support.

InnovationX Calls for All OSU Innovators to “Join the Club”