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Welcome to the Cornell Entrepreneur Network!
CEN is the university's multi-city business networking program. With ~100 events per year, CEN offers alumni the opportunity to learn from world-class speakers and meet fellow Cornellians with similar business motivations.

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11.30.2009 | Metro New York | More Details | See Who's Coming
CWS: Too Big To Fail, featuring Andrew Ross Sorkin '99

**This event is sold-out**

Cornell Wall Street (CWS) Presents: Andrew Ross Sorkin '99

On November 30, 2009, Sorkin, an acclaimed New York Times reporter and senior editor of NYTimes.com's DealBook, will present his newly launched book to his fellow Cornellians.
 
CWS is thrilled to present: 
 
Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
 
The book is a real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history.

Additionally, we are excited that we will be joined by renowned Communications Professor Brian O'Hara Earle '67, MPS '71.

Monday, November 30, 2009 
6:15 p.m. Doors open/Networking reception
7:20 p.m. Professor Brian Earle '67, MPS '71
7:30 p.m. Presentation/Q&A
8:30 p.m. Networking continues
9:00 p.m. Event concludes
 
Cost: $65* includes a copy of Too Big To Fail, reception, networking, and presentation
 
*In keeping with Cornell's spirit of accessibility for all, we've reserved a limited number of spots for students and unemployed alumni who are having financial difficulties. Please contact
john.zelenka@cornell.edu for more information.
 
Location: The Cornell Club of New York: ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212-986-0300 
 
Public Transportation: The Cornell Club of New York is 2 blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7, and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th for 2 blocks. The club will be on your left.
 
Parking: Central parking is at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway, for $22.00 with Cornell Club validation. Valet parking is available for $40 for up to 24 hours.

More Information about Too Big To Fail

Excerpt
"We just hit the iceberg," Jaime Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, warned his men over dinner just 24 hours before Lehman Brothers would file for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch would sell itself to Bank of America, and the insurance giant AIG would teeter-all within one afternoon. "The boat is filling and the music is still playing. There's not enough lifeboats. Someone is going to die," he said with a wry smile. "So you might as well enjoy the champagne and caviar." 

About the Author
Andrew Ross Sorkin is the award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, a columnist and assistant editor of business and finance news at The New York Times. He is also the editor and founder of DealBook, an online daily financial report. Sorkin has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, The Charlie Rose Show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Talk of the Nation and is a frequent guest host of Squawk Box. Sorkin has won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award. In 2007, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. In 2008, Vanity Fair named Sorkin to its "Next Establishment" list. Sorkin is a 1999 communications graduate from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Press for Too Big To Fail

 

 

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12.03.2009 | Northern California | More Details | See Who's Coming | Register to Attend
CEN Northern California presents Entrepreneurship and the Role of the Venture Capitalists

CEN Northern California presents Entrepreneurship and the Role of the Venture Capitalists featuring Tom McKinley, General Partner, Cardinal Partners.



Which came first, the entrepreneur or the venture capitalist? And so it goes in the world of technology. At this event we’ll give you a crash course on what’s going on in the mind of your local venture capitalist.

You’re the target audience for this event if you are forming a team seeking capital, are working in the ranks but hope to join a high velocity start-up someday, or simply want to understand more about venture capital for any reason. A grasp of venture capital is smart idea for all alumni associated with tech.

Thursday December 3rd 2009
11:50 AM – 1:00 PM

11:30AM - 11:50AM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:30AM
11:50AM - 12:00PM - Introduction of attendees
12:00PM - 1:00PM - Presentation and discussion
1:00PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 1:30PM if you like!
Please note this schedule is slightly earlier than other luncheons to accommodate a board meeting for Tom.

Cost: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch. THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.  If the event sells out, email Allison Shirley, allison.shirley@cornell.edu or call her 607.254.7176 to be added to the waitlist. 

Location: Hosted by Pamela S. Kaufmann '80 Partner, Hanson Bridgett LLP, 425 Market Street, San Francisco, CA. YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO THIS EVENT WITHOUT PRE-REGISTRATION.

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12.09.2009 | Boston | More Details | See Who's Coming | Register to Attend
CEN Boston Presents: Innovation for Entrepreneurs: Eureka! Ranch

CEN Boston Presents: Innovation for Entrepreneurs: Eureka! Ranch featuring partners Bruce Hall and Doug Brownstone '79, and moderated by Tom Hall '84, partner at Eureka! Ranch.



Learn how to find, filter, and fast track dramatically different innovations….

With the current economic and environmental problems, the need has never been greater for our country to innovate! Innovation is no longer optional – it is fundamental for profitable survival in today’s global marketplace. 

CEN presents Eureka! Ranch the nation’s top innovation services firm. 

Innovation Engineering teaches business leaders how to realize an order or magnitude improvement in their ability to lead the Creation, Communication, and Commercialization of profitable growth through innovation.

How will innovation engineering help you? During the evening you will know:
  • How to identify insights and big ideas 7 times faster than classic research and brainstorming methods.
  • How to improve innovation success rates and speed to market tenfold
  • How to increase market power through higher margin innovations
  • Learn an early stage sales forecasting tool to improve innovation research
  • How to replicate an innovation engineering system in your own firm.
About the Eureka! Ranch
Founded in 1986 by Doug Hall, the company has worked with thousands of companies large and small, helping create and develop dramatically new products and services. In fact, an independent study shows that the average home has 18 products that were invented by the Eureka! Ranch.

Developed with the US Commerce Department and a quarter century of learning from the Eureka! Ranch, Innovation Engineering is perfect for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and every size company. In fact, it has recently been rolled out to over 1,600 growth coaches that have relationships with 330,000 companies across the U.S. through the Commerce Department’s Manufacturing Extension.

The media has recognized the impact of the Eureka! Ranch. Dateline NBC said "Eureka! just might have what we've all been looking for, the happy secret to success." CIO Magazine says “Eureka! has a rigorous, quantifiable process for inventing ideas.” More companies have worked with the Eureka! Ranch in the past two years than any other innovation company in the world.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
6:15pm Doors Open/Networking Reception
7:00pm Presentaion/Q&A
8:00pm Networking continues
8:30pm Event Concludes

Cost: $20, includes heavy appetizers, reception, presentation and networking

Location: Choate, Hall & Stewart, 35th Floor, Two International Place, Boston, MA

Special Thanks to David Rickerby ’91 for hosting us at Choate.

 

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01.21.2010 | *Web Seminars | More Details | See Who's Coming | Register to Attend
CEN Web Seminars: Follow Your Bliss: Knowing Your Talents and Playing to Them

CEN Web Seminars: Follow Your Bliss: Knowing Your Talents and Playing to Them, featuring the Director of the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program at the Johnson School Clint Sidle.



One of the key strategies to long term professional effectiveness and job satisfaction is to craft the work that you do to your talents until you find work that you love. Taken from his recent book, This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness, Clint Sidle shows if you play to your strengths and serve your deeper aspirations you will not only increase your chances of success but also find work that you love. As Confucius said, “Find work that you love and you will never work another day in your life.”

During this web seminar, Clint will show you how to:

·         Discover your talents
·         Develop your purpose
·         Craft your work to them
Clint Sidle is the director of the prestigious Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program in the Johnson School at Cornell University and a widely sought consultant in strategic change, leadership, and executive coaching. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, state and local educational systems, and some of the nation’s leading universities and non-profit organizations. His leadership programs at Cornell and elsewhere have earned national recognition. In Clint’s most recent book, This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness, he argues the better you know yourself and are grounded in the real you, the more likely you are to be happy, successful, and doing good in the world. When you feel good about yourself, you’re more inclined to be supportive, charitable, cooperative, and productive. So what makes you happy also makes you successful and in service to something greater than yourself.

Thursday, Janurary 21, 2010
12:30PM - 1:30PM (Eastern)

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.  

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02.25.2010 | Washington, D.C. | More Details | See Who's Coming | Register to Attend
CEN DC: Social Entrepreneurship: Where Are We In 2010?

 

CEN DC presents: Social Entrepreneurship: Where Are We In 2010?
 
No one has yet counted all the dollars or hours that have been devoted to social entrepreneurship.  What we know is that if you google the topic, you'll get 16 million pages.  "Social entrepreneurship ideas" alone accounts for 2.3 million.  What we know is that now more than ever, we need leaders who combine their passion for a mission with discipline, innovation and determination.  And, as Google's Project 10 to the 100 made clear:  "Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life."
  
So how has this movement worked and is it more effective than traditional philanthropy?  Our panelists, recognized leaders in social philanthropy, will help us take a closer look at this phenomenon and address such questions as:
 
  • What's changed since the idea was first born?
  •  What are some of the latest trends?
  • Why is social entrepreneurship such a powerful way of creating social change?  Or ist it?
  • What have we learned about what works and what doesn't?
  • Some of the ones you may have.
If you're interested in these questions, or have some of your own, join us.  You won't want to miss this event!

Featuring: 
moderated by Shelly Porges '74, MPS '77, Chair, Board of Directors, Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence
Alexandra Poe ’81, Partner, Reed Smith
   
Thursday, February 25th ~ 6:30PM to 9:00PM 
 
6:30 PM Reception/Networking
7:30 PM Presentations /Q&A/Open Mic

 

Cost: ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event will sell out. $35 includes hors' de oeuvres, presentation and networking.
 

Location: to be announced

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