GROVE CITY COLLEGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

 

Visionary Entrepreneurs Speakers Series – Spring 2007

Funded by the Coleman Foundation

 

 

 

Young Entrepreneurs Panel – February 1

 

Mark Miller – February 8

 

Women Entrepreneurs Panel – February 21

 

Jay W. Richards –– “The Call of the Entrepreneur” Acton Institute – March 8

 

 

Dr. Tim Habbershon – April 11

Timothy G. Habbershon Dr. Habbershon is the founding director of the Institute for Family Enterprising within the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He holds the President’s Term Chair in Family Enterprising. Dr. Habbershon is a founder and principal in The TELOS Group, and specializes in transition and strategy consultations to enterprising families. Prior to Babson, Mr. Habbershon was the founding director of the Wharton Enterprising Families Initiative at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Topic: Enterprising Families – The Greatest and Most Enduring Entrepreneur

Locale: Sticht Lecture Hall, 7 p.m., evening presentation open to campus and local business community

Biography: Dr. Habbershon joined the faculty as the founding director of the Institute for Family Enterprising within the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He holds the President’s Term Chair in Family Enterprising and is an assistant professor of entrepreneurship. Dr. Habbershon came to Babson with extensive experience as an institutional entrepreneur, having established numerous higher education programs and centers. He works with large family business groups worldwide, delivering executive education and personal consultations on subjects such as strategic thinking, long-run wealth creation, organizational restructuring, consensus building and family relationships, and multigenerational leadership empowerment.  Additionally, Dr. Habbershon is a founder and principal in The TELOS Group, a consulting group that specializes in transition and strategy consultations to enterprising families. Prior to Babson, Mr. Habbershon was the founding director of the Wharton Enterprising Families Initiative at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and served as its director for eight years. He was a lecturer in the management department and an associate with the Penn Council for Relationships. Dr. Habbershon also the founded the South Dakota Family Business Initiative at the University of South Dakota, and has founded and ministered to two churches. While at Wharton, Dr. Habbershon developed the conceptual framework for family enterprising that creates a nexus between entrepreneurship and family-based business. He has applied this entrepreneurial framework to shaping education, research, and practice programs on transgenerational, social, and economic wealth creation. Dr. Habbershon’s framework and research on family enterprising has appeared in numerous articles in academic journals including Family Business Review and Journal of Business Venturing, and he has presented his work at research conferences nationally and internationally. To learn more, check out this website: http://www3.babson.edu/ESHIP/family_enterprising/familyenterprising.cfm

 

 

Grove City College Entrepreneurship Department