Formed in 1976, the Small Business Institute® is the premier organization dedicated to field-based student consulting and outreach to small businesses. Our members are actively involved with small businesses, entrepreneurial firms, and organizations in their communities and regions.
We are especially proud of the field-based student consulting projects that many of our members supervise each year. These individual programs are operated by colleges and universities across the country. These SBI programs bridge the gap between subject competency provided by courses in business and the entry-level training that companies critically need. Teams of qualified university students, under expert faculty supervision, provide consulting to small business owners and managers as part of their education. These programs emphasize practical, realistic, and affordable solutions to problems confronting small businesses.
Our organization offers our members a number of benefits, including, but not limited to the following: annual conference, awards, student project competition, two (2) journals, a newsletter, and much, much more.
WHAT'S NEW? 7/13/2010
The Latest News from the NASE Student Consultants Can Deliver Bright Ideas For Your Company By Mindy Charski
It’s not like Shane Skinner, owner of Alpine Lawn Care in Bozeman, Mont., was in the market for a consultant four years ago. The idea of hiring someone for business advice had never even occurred to him.
“We were working day to day and doing all right and thinking, ‘That’s just the way it is,’” he says. But then a client who teaches at Montana State University asked if he would like to receive free consulting from business students at the school. (click here to view full article)
6/14/2010 The site for the 2011 Small Business Institute® Conference is now available for conference submissions. The direct link to submit a paper, workshop or best practice is as follows: https://cmt2.research.microsoft.com/SBI2011.
For more information about the 2011 SBI Conference, including author instructions and submission guidelines, please click here.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or encounter any problems with the submission process.
Best wishes, Michael L. Harris Program Chair, 2011 National Small Business Institute® Associate Professor, Department of Management East Carolina University (252) 341-1737 harrismi@ecu.edu
