Today (April, 20, 2009) Zoran Mlinarević, student of the 10th class of Graduate Specialist Program in Entrepreneurship successfully defended his final assignment entitled: “Analysis of Entrepreneurial Activities in the Entrepreneurial Cycle”, and earned academic title – University Specialist in Economics (univ.spec.oec.). The assignment was defended before the committee of professors consisting of chairman Marijan Karić, Ph.D., Stipan Penavin, Ph.D., and Marijana Zekić Sušac Ph.D. (committee members). We congratulate Zoran and wish him a lot more private and entrepreneurial successes!

This year’s, 29th conference on entrepreneurship PODIM – “The Winning Products” was held in Maribor on March 25-26, 2009. Professor Slavica Singer, Mirela Alpeza and Mirna Balkić participated at the conference with the paper “Corporate Entrepreneurship: Is Entrepreneurial Behaviour Possible in a Large Company?”. The paper describes and discusses a case on entrepreneurial behavior of employees of Hrvatska pošta d.d. It represents a further research of the subject on which Mirna Balkić worked on in her Master’s thesis at Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship, mentored by professor Singer. A doctoral seminar was also held at the conference, at which Julia Perić and Anamarija Delić participated, as well as a meeting of partner institutions of the ICES Tempus project, at which they were joined by professors Sanja Pfeifer, Marijana Zekić Sušac and Mirna Leko-Šimić.

Today (March 06, 2009), Maja Žunić, student of the 4th class of Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship successfully defended her masters’ thesis entitled “Entrepreneurial Management of Long-term Development of a Profit Center” before the committee of professors consisting of chairman Marijan Karić, Ph.D., Nataša Šarlija, Ph.D., and Stipan Penavin, Ph.D. (committee members). We congratulate ja and wish her a lot more entrepreneurial successes!

On Thursday, February 19, 2009, Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship held an OPEN DOOR DAY at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek. Head of the program, Slavica Singer, PhD, together with professors – lecturers who participate in the program presented the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship to potential candidates. Within the presentation of the program, a short workshop for interested candidates was held, at the end of which one lucky participant was awarded a valuable prize.

Yesterday (February 03, 2009), at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Dr. Ichak Adizes held the first in a range of executive seminars. His lecture entitled: “How and why organizations grow, age and die (and what to do about it)?” was about change and crisis management, and managing growing companies. More than 150 participants attended the seminar (managers and representatives of large, medium and small companies, members of the academic community from the entire University, and representatives of the local self-government). The seminar was jointly organized by Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship, Center for Entrepreneurship Osijek and Business Incubator BIOS.