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Business education, put to work

Ivey MBA students apply strategy and analysis to the needs of community organizations.

Ivey students give back to community organizations. Official Western News image.
Ideas & societyIvey students give back to community organizations. Official Western News image.Photo: Western News / official source page

Entrepreneurship is not only about starting a company. It is also the habit of seeing an organization's constraints clearly and designing a more useful next move.

The Ivey students' community work makes that broader definition visible: business skills become valuable when they are accountable to a real partner and a real problem.

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  1. Original reporting · news.westernu.ca
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