Since a young age, Shippensburg University alumnus David Williams has had a strong work ethic and sense of entrepreneurship. When he was 25, he bought a small marketing firm that later grew into Merkle Group Inc., a worldwide marketing-services company that achieved more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue before selling a majority stake to Japan’s Dentsu Group in 2016. He founded MRE…
As Shippensburg University continues its participation in the America the Entrepreneurial campaign to honor alumni who have built exceptional careers as entrepreneurs, alongside its celebration of Women’s History Month, the university proudly recognizes Julie Cropp Gareleck, a serial entrepreneur, bestselling author and AI innovator whose work is shaping the future of people-first leadership in the…
Alumna Sherri Blum, featured this Women’s History Month in Shippensburg’s “America the Entrepreneurial” campaign, pursued a diverse career path, starting as a high school social studies teacher in Baltimore County, to becoming a celebrity interior designer and then founding the lifestyle Brand,Bourbon Cowgirl. Blum represents that the route to entrepreneurship can take on many different…
Shippensburg University is proud to announce Lance Hines-Butts as the second alumnus featured in the American the Entrepreneurial campaign, highlighting alumni who have gone on to build successful careers as entrepreneurs. Hines-Butts graduated from the John L. Grove College of Business with a bachelor’s in Entrepreneurship in 2022, and today, he owns LHB Clean Team,…
Rob Lieblein, founder and chief development officer of Alera Group, and a distinguished alumnus of Shippensburg University, has been recognized as one of the top alumni featured in the America the Entrepreneurial campaign. This initiative celebrates entrepreneurs and their contributions to economic growth and social change across the United States. Launched in conjunction with the nation’s 250th Anniversary, Shippensburg is…
The Diller Center helps Lilian Poust and Allyson Rockwell find their “entrepreneurial mindset” at the second annual Student Creatives Advancing through Leadership & Entrepreneurship (SCALE) Conference, in Kansas City, MO. This event offered a dynamic platform for student creatives and artists to gain essential entrepreneurial skills to transform their passion into a thriving profession. Poust…
Ship Tank, one of the Diller Center’s longest-running and most beloved programs, returned on April 10 to continue its tradition of empowering student entrepreneurs at Shippensburg University. Hosted by the Charles H. Diller Jr. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation, Ship Tank provides SU students with the opportunity to turn bold ideas into real-world ventures-…
Tom Phillips ’07 and Jaron Nalewak ’08 and their business partner Joseph McDevitt. are set to pitch their product, Bro Glo, on Shark Tank.
Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s more than 33 million small businesses, announced 28 awardees for the 2024 Program for Investment in Microentrepreneurs (PRIME) grant awards, totaling $7 million. “The SBA’s PRIME grants support mission-oriented nonprofit organizations across America that are advancing the Biden-Harris…
Dr. Rahman and colleagues published a study titled: Keeping the ball rolling: using the S-O-R framework to investigate the determinants of football fan loyalty, in the Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics. The paper aims to understand how fan experiences impact football (soccer) fan loyalty using the stimulus-organism-response framework. The study found that fan…