Luncheon

December 9th, 2009

If you aren't in the holiday spirit when you arrive for this week's luncheon meeting, you will be when you depart . . . after a special meal (including dessert!) and concert by Pioneer High School Choirs directed by Honorary Paul Harris Fellow Kenneth Westerman.  As always, guests are especially welcome for this wonderful annual event.

November 25, 2009

With the demise of The Ann Arbor News and birth pangs of AnnArbor.com fresh in our minds, what could be more timely than an expert’s view of the future of American newspapers?  With almost thirty years of print journalism experience, including a long stint at The Detroit News, and a journalism professorship at Wayne State University, WUOM commentator Jack Lessenberry is ideally situated to help us understand, if not solve, all the issues imperiling the print wing of the fourth estate.  Host/introducer: Sam Offen.

Speaker: Thomas Kinnear, Entrepeneurial Studies Professor, U-M Business School
Topic: The Role of Entrepeneurship in Building a Regional Innovation-Based Economy

Nov. 18: This is the third in a series of programs focused on building an innovation-based regional economy by converting U-M research breakthroughs into dynamic, well capitalized and managed businesses.  Professor Kinnear, Director of the Zell-Lurie Institute for Entrepeneurial Studies at the Ross School of Business, will discuss the vital role of entrepeneurship – and the study and teaching of entrepreneurial leadership – in this process.  Host/introducer: Michael Cole.