March 25, 2010 – 11:24 am
The Idaho SBDC has been offering no-cost energy efficiency evaluations for small businesses in southwest Idaho under a grant received from SBA. Student training began at Boise State University in the fall semester of 2009. Seventeen students were trained by a talented and committed group of volunteer trainers from Boise State, Idaho Power [...]
R2EV, a new venture started by COBE student Alex Livingston, has been selected to compete in the Semifinal Round at the 2010 New Venture Championship®. The NVC 2010 Qualifying Round attracted over 100 entries from colleges and universities across the globe. A panel of Qualifying Round Judges has selected the top 20 venture teams to compete in [...]
The College of Business and Economics (COBE) at Boise State University is reaching out and touching the lives of more than 50,000 high school students and their teachers annually across the United States and in countries as diverse as Mexico and China. COBE is host to an innovative and rapidly expanding educational program called the “International Economic Summit”.
Sunny [...]
The College of Business and Economics hosted the Leadership and Development Day for upper-division and graduate business students on Tuesday, March 2. Looking to gain a competitive edge in the current tough job market over 300 students participated in the career development workshops.
The workshops, led by 29 local business and community leaders, ranged in topics [...]
February 12, 2010 – 8:57 am
Treasure Valley small businesses can register now for no-cost energy evaluations provided by trained Boise State student interns.
The program began last fall as part of a grant that the Idaho Small Business Development Center received to help small businesses reduce energy use. Twenty students completed 39 evaluations at small retail, service and wholesale companies in [...]
January 12, 2010 – 8:57 am
Business professor Rob Anson coaches students who work directly with Idaho business clients.
ANSON: CONSULTANT APPROACH ENCOURAGES STUDENT INNOVATION
Textbooks and coursework can teach budding programmers to write code. But they won’t teach them how to work through detailed negotiations with clients, how to recognize nuanced differences between projects, or a whole host of other skills that will help them [...]
December 8, 2009 – 9:32 am
For the first time since Boise State’s TECenter opened, a client has obtained multi-million dollar venture capital funding.
Ready Financial has been a TECenter client since 2006. The company’s recent success was featured in an Idaho Statesman article online.
In addition, Ready Financial also made national headlines last week with the announcement of securing $7 million in [...]
November 30, 2009 – 10:10 am
Boise State University’s College of Business and Economics (COBE) has launched the Spring 2010 Economic Turnaround Initiative and invites Idaho businesses to take advantage of the wide array of expertise available at the university.
Interested companies and non-profit organizations should call (208) 426-4950. Assistance will be provided based upon fit, capabilities and order received.
“This is a [...]
October 23, 2009 – 7:22 am
The Oct. 19 Brandt Lecture by David Walker — chief auditor for the U.S. government until 2008 — will be broadcast at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, on KTVB Channel 7, and then replayed seven times on 24/7, KTVB’s cable station.
The 24/7 schedule is as follows:
Monday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Nov. [...]
September 14, 2009 – 9:44 am
During these difficult economic times, businesses are scrambling to save money. One way is to reduce their energy usage, and Boise State and the Idaho Small Business Development Center (a service arm of COBE) are teaming up to help them do so.
Boise State students from a variety of disciplines — business, engineering, construction management and [...]
