Category: Business
Lt. Gov. Bolling speaks at dinner to celebrate entrepreneurs
Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling was the keynote speaker at a dinner on Thursday evening organized by Sweet Briar’s business department in honor of local entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs Share Stories at Salt Block Project
Sweet Briar College’s business department will host the Salt Block Project, a conference on entrepreneurship and innovation, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16. The conference workshops are an opportunity for college students, community members, local small businesses and budding entrepreneurs to interact with successful business owners and entrepreneurs. Speakers include venture capitalist [...]
Community Hits the Hardwoods for Habitat
On Sunday, April 3, students in Sweet Briar’s business management lab hosted the Hoops for Habitat 3v3 Basketball Tournament at the College’s Fitness and Athletics Center to raise money for Amherst County Habitat for Humanity. Many hours went into planning the tournament, which raised $672. Fifteen teams of either three or four people participated and [...]
Sweet Briar Business Class Hosts Rockin’ for Humanity
Sweet Briar College’s spring business management lab will host a benefit concert, Rockin’ for Humanity, featuring singers Dallas Wesley and Hanna Rae Walters from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, April 14 on the lower quad. An after-party will immediately follow the concert in the Vixen Den. All donations from the concert and party benefit Amherst [...]
‘Dine to Build’ Supports Habitat for Humanity
Sweet Briar College’s business management lab will host “Dine to Build,” a spaghetti dinner fundraiser, from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27 at Ascension Episcopal Church in Amherst.
Business Savvy Made Here
With each passing year, Tom Loftus has watched his students transform Sweet Briar’s business management lab into a tighter, more mature apparatus. At the conclusion of this fall’s semester-end project presentations on Dec. 6, he stood to congratulate the latest group to complete the lab. “That was far, far and away the most professional presentation [...]
Powder Puff Champs
The Sweet Briar College business management lab organized a powder puff football game series on Sunday, Nov. 7, matching up first-years against sophomores and juniors against seniors. The winning teams played each other to be named “champions.” The juniors triumphed over the first-year class in a close game. Leading up to game day, students in [...]
Business Lab Raises Funds for Alzheimer’s Association
On the evening of Oct. 20, the fall 2010 business management lab hosted “Shopping for a Memory” in Josey Dining Room at Sweet Briar College. Clothes and other items were collected to sell at the event. Students, faculty and staff purchased the donated items in support of the Alzheimer’s Association, raising a total of $599.05. [...]
SBC Students Tackle Gridiron to Benefit Alzheimer’s Association
Students in the Sweet Briar College fall 2010 business management lab are hosting powder puff football games from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 at Babcock Soccer Field. The senior class will be taking on the junior class, and the sophomores will play the first-years. The event is a fund-raiser with all proceeds benefiting [...]
Sweet Briar College Hosts ‘Sk8tapalooza’ April 18
Sweet Briar College will host “Sk8tapalooza” from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 18 at the Rotary Centennial Riverfront Skate Park in Lynchburg. The event was organized by several Sweet Briar students for a special study on marketing for non-profit organizations
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