Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship Selects Director

The Charles H. Lundquist College of Business is pleased to announce the selection of Randy Swangard as the director of the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Swangard brings his extensive leadership, as well as business and teaching experience to the Lundquist Center. For the past three years, he has been the director of the Lundquist College's Opportunity Plan Team program (now named the Strategic Planning Project). As an entrepreneur he has started, managed, advised, or invested in eight entrepreneurial companies. As a senior instructor on the Lundquist College faculty, he has taught M.B.A. and undergraduate courses, twice being honored with teaching awards.

As director, Mr. Swangard will spearhead the Lundquist College's entrepreneurship initiative, a major focus of the college's mission. As such he is responsible for all internal and external entrepreneurship programs and activities along with providing support for the entrepreneurship curriculum at both the M.B.A. and undergraduate level.

Other facts about the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship:

• The Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship was founded in 1989 through a generous gift by University of Oregon and Harvard M.B.A. alumnus Charles. H. Lundquist, a fervent believer in entrepreneurship and the UO's Lundquist College of Business.


• Success magazine listed the Lundquist College of Business as one of the top forty U.S. entrepreneurial M.B.A. programs for 2001.


• The Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship's New Venture Championship is recognized as one of the top three Business Plan Competitions in the United States with twenty competing universities and over $60,000 in awards.


• The Lundquist College of Business is a past winner of the National Model Program Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurial Education at the M.B.A. Level, presented by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.


• The Lundquist Center has received grants and funding from the Lowe, Coleman and Kauffman foundations for its M.B.A. internship program. This unique internship program brings student developed cases to the classroom in partnership with key executives from their internship companies. Cases are presented both in the LCB and across campus.


• The Strategic Planning Project (SPP) program links M.B.A. student teams, a faculty member, and a Northwest company interested in capitalizing upon an emerging business opportunities. Four member teams develop a business plan for the company over the course of an academic year in conjunction with their curriculum.


• Alan Meyer, Lundquist Professor of Entrepreneurial Management, received a $65,000 seed grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate corporate equity investing in start-up ventures.


• M.B.A and Undergraduate student teams from the Lundquist College of Business have participated in national and international business plan competitions five of the last six years. In 2000 an M.B.A. team placed second at San Diego State's international business plan competition, Venture Challenge 2000. In 2001, an undergraduate team finished fourth at the International Enterprise Creation Competition at Ball State University.

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