The project is a result of a collaborative partnership among the College of Business at the University of Southern Indiana (USI), Evansville Idea Club, Evansville Small Business Development Center (SBDC), and the Evansville Otters.
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The Evansville minor league baseball team and the College of Business at the University of Southern Indiana will announce a new project next week designed to assist the team. Five teams of undergraduate students competed to address business issues faced by the Evansville Otters. Presentations will be made April 29 with a final decision announced later in the day.
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Press Release
Evansville, Ind. -- Bill Bussing III, president and chief executive officer of the Evansville Otters, will be making an announcement about a new Evansville Otters project at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at Bosse Field.
The project is a result of a collaborative partnership among the College of Business at the University of Southern Indiana (USI), Evansville Idea Club, Evansville Small Business Development Center (SBDC), and the Evansville Otters.
College of Business undergraduate students, under the direction of Dr. Nancy Kovanic, USI instructor in management, and members of the Evansville Idea Club, under the direction of Christine Prior, created five collaborative teams to compete against each other to address specific business issues the Evansville Otters organization is currently experiencing and help provide solutions for this new project.
In November 2008, discussions between Kim Howard, regional director of the SBDC and Bryan Bourdeau, USI instructor in business, led to the development of the student-based consultation project that will wind up with final student presentations at 3:30 p.m. at Bosse Field on Wednesday, April 29, 2009.
The project was driven by Kovanic and was integrated into her Management 455 spring semester course. Management 455, Small Business Consulting, is radically different than a traditional lecture class. Student teams meet independently and work on a real-world business issue.
“This semester’s Evansville Otters project has allowed USI students to be involved in new project development - from designing the project to budgeting, marketing, and the operations aspect,” said Kovanic.
Bourdeau said, "As the USI College of Business vision emphasizes development of an entrepreneurial mindset which involves innovative thought and openness to new ideas, this project is exactly what we need more of. Students generating innovative ideas to solve local issues, to generate real economic development, and to better our community; this is entrepreneurial."
Source: University of Southern Indiana
