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Where the MBAs Have the Answers
Here's the expanded, online-only list of 43 business schools currently offering free assistance to small businesses. Do you know of any other schools that do the same? Send your submissions to DkbBW@aol.com, and BW Online will update the directory.
NORTHEAST
SCHOOL COMMENT CONTACT/PHONE
BABSON Specializes in Ondine Cohn
Babson Park, financing help 781 239-4003
Mass.
BOSTON COLLEGE Students present comp- Vincent O'Reilly
Boston anies' biz plans at a 617 552 1933
yearend awards fete
BOSTON UNIV. This semester, matched Candida Brush
Boston four of eight companies 617 353 9391
that asked for help
COLUMBIA A new class is geared Murray Low
New York towards entrepreneur- 212 854-3244
ship and technology
CONNECTICUT Students have assisted Bill Schulze
Storrs, Conn. companies in 150 Conn. 860 486-3504
towns and cities
CORNELL Entrepreneurship-Lab David
(Johnson) students spend one day Ben Daniel
Ithaca, N.Y. a week at companies 607 255-4220
DARTMOUTH Most students Robert Hansen
(Tuck) do data collection 603 646-2801
Hanover, N.H. and analysis
GEORGETOWN Advises 30 to 50 Elaine
Washington companies per year Romanelli
202 687-4188
MARYLAND Teams students with Charles Heller
College Park, mentors -- lawyers, 301 405-2144
Md. entrepreneurs, and execs
MIT MIT prefers companies Kenneth Morse
(Sloan) that have fewer than 20 617 253-8653
Cambridge, Mass. employees
PENNSYLVANIA Projects have sent Roz Cohen
(Wharton) students to S. Africa, 215 898-4856
Philadelphia Bolivia, and Ukraine
PENN STATE Revamped program Albert Vicere
(Smeal) debuts in January 814 865 3435
Univ. Park, Penn.
RENSSELAER Some 85% of advised William Stitt
Troy, N.Y. companies are less 518 276-8398
than two years old
SOUTH
SCHOOL COMMENT CONTACT/PHONE
ALABAMA Specializes in business Mark Weaver
(Culverhouse) plans, strategic allianc- 205 348-8947
Tuscaloosa, Ala. es, and new ventures
DUKE Companies should be Bill Sax
(Fuqua) one year old with sales 919 660-7741
Durham, N.C. of at least $100,000
EMORY Projects typically focus Christopher
(Goizueta) on competitor analysis Gresov
Atlanta and business plans 404 727-0526
NORTH CAROLINA Developed ''game day'' Jim Danko
(Kenan-Flagler) logistics plan for NFL 919 962-3122
Chapel Hill, N.C. team
SMU Beatty's class does full Randolph
(Cox) analysis and valuation Beatty
Dallas of Dallas companies 214 768-2533
TEXAS Most students work Bob Schwartz
Austin in Austin, but some 512 471-5288
go to Dallas and Houston
VIRGINIA Some 75% of projects Tiha von Ghyczy
(Darden) are marketing-based 804 243-7697
Charlottesville
WAKE FOREST School awards grants Paul Dierks
(Babcock) to implement students' 910 759-4579
Winston-Salem, N.C. recommendations
WILLIAM & MARY Strong in information Al Whitehorne
Williamsburg, Va. technology--such as 757 221-2902
computer networking
MIDWEST
SCHOOL COMMENT CONTACT/PHONE
CASE WESTERN A third of MBAs are Kirk Neiswander
(Weatherhead) hired by the companies 216 229-9445
Cleveland for whom they consulted ext. 155
CHICAGO A strong reputation Monique Bernoudy
Chicago in finance 773 702-7555
CINCINNATI Specializes in advising Charles
Cincinnati family-owned businesses Matthews
513 556-7123
ILLINOIS Recent projects: Paul Magelli
Urbana, Ill. Employee benefits, 217 244-8019
technology transfer
INDIANA Uses a resume Daniel DeHayes
Bloomington, Ind. clearinghouse to match 812 855-4248
students and businesses
IOWA Summer course places Daryl Erdman
Iowa City, Iowa students for 13-weeks of 319 335-0053
entrepreneurial consulting
MICHIGAN This semester, a student Andrew Lawlor
Ann Arbor, Mich. ''straw poll'' picked 8 of 313 763-5809
23 applying companies
MICHIGAN STATE Partners with city of Brad Shaw
(Broad) Lansing and Lansing-area 517 337-2670
Lansing, Mich. Chamber of Commerce
MINNESOTA Founded in 1961, this Verna Monson
(Carlson) program typically accepts 612 624-3544
Minneapolis about half its applicants
U. OF MISSOURI Students have worked Joe Singer
KANSAS CITY with some 4,000 816 235-2320
(Bloch) companies since 1973
Kansas City, Mo.
NORTHWESTERN Students helped plan Steven Rogers
(Kellogg) the new Negro League 847 467-1797
Evanston, Ill. Baseball Museum
PURDUE The management Shailendra Raj
(Krannert) program dispatches Mehta
W. Lafayette, Ind. students abroad 765 494-5703
WISCONSIN Weinert Ventures Fund Robert Pricer
Madison, Wis. lends start-up capital 608 262-8640
to selected companies
WEST
SCHOOL COMMENT CONTACT/PHONE
AMERICAN Students do financial Paul Johnson
(Thunderbird) analysis with five-year 602 978-7607
Glendale, Ariz. pro forma projections
ARIZONA A marketing research Christopher
(Eller) class takes on about Puto
Tuscon, Ariz. 20 projects per year 520 621-1030
CALIFORNIA- Focus on Bay Area and Stephanie
BERKELEY (Haas) Silicon Valley startups Tibbetts
Berkeley, Calif. 510 642-4255
CALIFORNIA- Designed exclusively for Dennis Aigner
IRVINE technology transfer 714 824-6229
Irvine, Calif.
OREGON Advisory board refers Mark Lange
(Lundquist) student projects for 541 346-3312
Eugene, Ore. possible venture funding
STANFORD Selected 20 out of 70 Brigitte Shearer
Stanford, Calif. applicant companies 650 723-0887
last year
UCLA Plans prepared in Elaine Hagan
(Anderson) Ventures Program won 310 825-2985
Los Angeles $10 million in funding
WILLAMETTE Covers a 100-mile Bruce Gates
(Atkinson) range between Portland 503 370-6440
Salem, Ore. and Eugene
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