Stories about "business"
With at least $5,000 in the offing, student entrepreneurs pitch business ideas

Friday, April 3, 2015 11:55 am

Bobcat Ventures, a Bates College student organization dedicated to entrepreneurship, is sponsoring a business idea competition on April 4.

Hire smart people and lean on the Bates network, says Entrepreneurship speaker Bruce Stangle ’70

Monday, April 21, 2014 3:00 pm

Stangle's visit was part of the Voices in Entrepreneurship series sponsored by the college's Purposeful Work initiative.

Report by Walter Dillingham ’82 ‘cracks open the books’ on library endowments

Thursday, March 13, 2014 2:58 pm

You hear the word "endowment" and you probably think "college." But there's more out there, says Walter Dillingham '82.

Summer Student Work: Ladd intern Polich ’15 finds the real deal at TM Capital

Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:00 pm

Internships help students like Zach Polich '15 finding a work culture that fits your style — "rather than just chasing prestige."

Trustee Chair Emeritus E. Robert Kinney ’39, corporate and civic leader with ‘good, gutsy Maine business sense,’ dies at 96

Thursday, May 9, 2013 6:00 pm

Kinney was a model corporate leader, a former CEO of General Mills who "always ready with a helping hand."

Savoy Magazine names Sene ’00 among ‘most influential’ in corporate America

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:44 pm

Lena Sene '00 is a managing parter with Deer Isle Capital and an expert on global investing in Africa.

Stangle Award answers the question ‘What’s in a name?’

Friday, June 1, 2012 3:50 pm

The inaugural award for distinguished service belongs its namesake: Bruce Stangle '70.

CFO.com touts prize-winning app by classmates Rapp and Ghai

Monday, March 12, 2012 1:31 pm

Reporter David Rosenbaum of CFO.com highlights the prize-winning open-source financial application created…

Investors hear Rachael Rothman ’91 offer ‘bullish’ Vegas report

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:41 pm

The Wall Street Transcript features an interview with analyst Rachael Rothman ’91,…

Rachel Stern '07, Fulbright grant recipient

Thursday, September 1, 2011 9:30 am

An economics major at Bates, Stern received a Fulbright to study for a master's of business administration at IE, a business school in Madrid. Aspiring to do business development that is socially and environmentally sustainable, particularly with women entrepreneurs in the Third World, Stern has selected IE because of its international leadership in this field.

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