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It Doesn't Feel Like Prison
Lance Manning Donuts, sub sandwiches and pizza. Sound like prison food to you? On October 24 and 25, 2008, participants of the Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) hosted MBA students and executive volunteers at the Cleveland Correctional Center just outside Houston, Texas. Read more ... BPC—The Inside View By Grant Warren, Class IV Graduate The culminating experience for PEP participants is the two-day Business Plan Competition (BPC) and graduation ceremony. On the surface, business is the reason for the event. The participant, after four months of preparing his plan and presentation, has the opportunity to present his business concept to a panel of executives. Read more ... What’s the Big Deal? Case Study: James Gorman T-shirts get printed everyday—some in huge warehouses, others in mom-and-pop start-ups. On this day, A Perfect Print was delivering an order of t-shirts to the headquarters of a large corporation in the Dallas area. Sounds perfectly normal, right? Read more ... Think You Can Say No to Mentoring? By Jason Floyd Of the 10 million or so businesses within the U.S., I was somehow invited to be one of ten or so panelists judging inmate business plans through the Prison Entrepreneurship Program. Read more ... The Lost Cause of Byron Maddox Case Study: Byron Maddox Everyone knew Byron Maddox was a lost cause—including Byron. Read more ... |
