Family Enterprise Center News
Our member families are a critical part of the region’s business future. Learn what they are doing and how we are working with them to lead economic renewal and growth by serving the enterprising people and businesses of Western Pennsylvania.
Ann Dugan shares tool for assessing business' strengths
The Leading Edge
Date: 08/01/2009
Ann Dugan shares a simple assessment tool she uses to help entrepreneurs identify the qualities that make their businesses competitive, and what they will need to succeed based on those strengths. The complete story is available on page 6. Read More
Institute's record of success chronicled by Heinz Endowments
h, the magazine of The Heinz Endowments
Date: 08/01/2009
Ann Dugan has built the Institute into a crucial resource for the region, helping a wide variety of entrepreneurs and business leaders attain the power to prosper. Read More
Ann Dugan receives Entrepreneur of the Year Award
News from Pitt
Date: 07/10/2009
Ann Dugan, founder and director of Pitt's Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, recently received the Entrepreneur of the Year award for the upstate New York, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia region from Ernst & Young LLP. As the winner in the "supporter of entrepreneurship" category, Ann was honored for providing educational and consulting services to businesses through a variety of programs she established through the IEE. Read More
Ann Dugan shares family business insights
Pittsburgh Business Times
Date: 06/26/2009
Ann Dugan offered an assessment of the distinct ways in which the economic downturn is affecting family businesses. Read More
Board Chair Joe Ott discusses support that makes Institute unique
TEQ Magazine
Date: 04/01/2009
IEE Advisory Board Chair Joe Ott sat down with TEQ Magazine to discuss how he grew, managed and eventually sold his company with the educational support of the Institute for Entreprenuerial Excellence. Read More
IEE raised more than $44 million for regional entrepreneurs in 2008
Date: 02/26/2009
While corporations look for handouts and major firms around the globe teeter on the edge of collapse, the entrepreneurial firms of Western Pennsylvania are proving that businesses can thrive in a difficult economy with the help of innovative strategies, flexible strategic plans, and organizations like the IEE. Read PDF
Ann Dugan contributes expertise to World Finance
World Finance Magazine
Date: 02/01/2009
Assistant Dean and IEE Executive Director Ann Dugan contributed a family business article entitled "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" to the January/February edition of World Finance, a leading financial magazine distributed around the world. Read PDF
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