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Five top executives will participate in a roundtable discussion focused on the Piedmont Triad economy at Â鶹ÊÓƵ on March 4. The event is the latest in a series of regional roundtables sponsored by Business North Carolina, the state’s award-winning business magazine.

A recent New York Times story on the economy cites undergraduate research conducted by an Â鶹ÊÓƵ student while she studied at the university earlier this decade.

Student Entrepreneurial Enterprise Development (SEED), one of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's newest student organizations, held an inaugural interest meeting Feb. 24 with more than 70 students attending to share their interests in developing creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial skills. SEED is open to Â鶹ÊÓƵ students from all areas of study.

The winning Â鶹ÊÓƵ student team from Stanford’s Global Innovation Challenge and Â鶹ÊÓƵ entrepreneurship students visited Aldagen, Inc. in the Research Triangle Park on Feb. 26.

As an experiential prize for being selected as one of the top three student teams in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Innovation Challenge, students Cory Dowd, Alex Trevisan and Keith Williams enjoyed an afternoon at the home of Dave and Suku Rendall on Feb. 27.

The Summer Business Institute provides rising juniors, seniors, and May graduates in non-business majors with the opportunity to enhance their marketability. The four-week program provides participants with broad knowledge of business principles and practices.

It’s not how a company fares at the beginning of a recession that determines its future, a North Carolina business leader told Â鶹ÊÓƵ students this week, it’s whether that company takes advantage of opportunities during the downturn. Dr. James A. Tompkins, founder of a global supply chain consulting firm, on Feb. 24 shared stories of what he says are the promises of globalization in the 21st century.

Dr. James A. Tompkins, founder and CEO of a global supply chain consulting firm that has worked with hundreds of companies worldwide, will share facts about globalization and advice for students gleaned over three decades at the helm of his company during a Feb. 24 talk in the LaRose Digital Theatre.