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MBA-Managed VC Fund Earns 55 Percent On Early Stage Investment

The Garber Venture Capital Fund at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has sold its total holdings of 150,000 shares in Schoolwires Inc. for a total return on invested capital of about 55 percent.

MBA Students Build Charter School Playground In Service Project

Students in the Penn State Smeal College of Business MBA Program volunteered with a local charter school on April 25 to construct a playground for the new school.

Center For Digital Transformation Research Forum To Examine 'Quiet Revolutions'

The Center for Digital Transformation at Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host its semiannual research forum in September 2008 to examine "quiet revolutions"—technologies that are altering major market segments yet receive little attention in the popular media.

Smeal Professors Pen Eighth Edition Of Supply Chain Textbook

South-Western Cengage Learning has published the eighth edition of Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective, a textbook coauthored by five supply chain academics, including two professors at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Report: Penn State Among Top Universities For Tech Entrepreneurs

A new report from The Kauffman Foundation lists Penn State as one of the top ten universities graduating founders of technology companies.