Press Room

New York’s colleges are stepping up support of budding entrepreneurs with courses, mentoring, networking, awards. High marks were given to Pace’s Lubin School of Business, where a 2011 pitch contest drew an audience of 400 — including venture capitalists, angel investors and bankers.

Experts say that Chinese inflation is a natural side effect of a healthy economy. Here’s why they’re wrong, acccording to “Guest Blogger” Joseph Salerno, a professor of economics in Pace’s Lubin School of Business.

In February, Pace’s Lubin School of Business and the Association of International Bank Auditors joined forces to introduce a six-month program leading to a Certified Compliance and Regulatory Professional certificate. Professional certificates are valuable for mid-career professionals who don’t have time to plod through the programs of study required for advanced degrees but who need to update their skills regularly.

Military Advanced Education, the Journal of Higher Learning for Today’s Servicemember, reports on the opening of Pace’s new Entrepreneurship Lab in the April issue.

In a double play … Professor Bruce Bachenheimer’s recent quote in MIT’s “Technology Review” concerning Wall Street losing some of its allure due to the financial crisis was picked up by NYConvergence.com, which reports on digital media technology in the Tri-State region.

Lubin Professor Bruce Bachenheimer, Director of Pace’s Entrepreneurship Lab, discusses the technology brain drain from Wall Street, how it’s become possible to be a force in financial services development without being in Manhattan, and what Wall Street is trying to do about it.

The Lubin School of Business’s Part-Time M.B.A Program offers working professionals like Morgan Stanley’s Saj Sahni (pictured) the opportunity to earn a graduate business degree while continuing to pursue a full-time career. Sahni discusses the challenges of balancing his school and work lives.

MO.com – a website for entrepreneurs that stands for Modus Operandi or Method of Operating – interviewed Professor Bruce Bachenheimer about his passion for entrepreneurship, early influences, how he fosters creativity and innovation in his students, mentors, social entrepreneurship, job challenges and his most important piece of advice for those ready to embark on the adventure of starting a business.

Pace University’s new Entrepreneurship Lab, known as the E-Lab, is available to all Pace students, in New York City and in Pleasantville.

Students who choose to supplement their graduate work may benefit from an evolving doctoral business field, which increasingly caters to students who want to work in industry rather than academia.