Cornell will celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), Nov. 16-22, with entrepreneurs from around the world.

The week will connect people through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, nonprofit leaders, government officials and many others will participate in a range of activities, from online to face-to-face, and from large-scale competitions and events to intimate networking gatherings.

Activities at Cornell will include:

• A campuswide kickoff meeting of entrepreneurship faculty and staff Nov. 16 at 12:15 p.m. Students using the eLab facilities will give presentations on their business ideas. Reservations required: e-mail dlm8@cornell.edu).
• Entrepreneur and Cornell professor Donald Greenberg '55, BCV '58, Ph.D. '68, will speak in the course Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Speaker Series, a lecture series that is free and open to the public. Monday, Nov. 16, 7:30-8:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall.
• A virtual Entrepreneur's Resource Expo, which will feature information and videos from resources and organizations on and off campus. The expo will be available all week at http://www.youtube.com/user/GEWatCornell.
• Special entrepreneurship clips will be available on Entrepreneurship@Cornell's GEW Web site, http://www.eship.cornell.edu/events/gew/, from the collection of eClips, Cornell's premiere video clip collection on entrepreneurship, business and leadership, http://www.eclips.cornell.edu. The eClips video collection will highlight a different entrepreneurial topic during each day.
• A new interview will be posted offering career advice for young professionals on the http://10goodminutes.com Web site, powered by the eClips project.
• A Cornell Entrepreneur Network Web seminar will feature Jodi Smith, MILR '95, president of Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting, presenting "The Five Mentors You Need to Succeed -- And How to Find Them." Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 12:30 p.m. To learn more or to sign up, visit the CEN Web site at http://www.cen.cornell.edu.
• eLab Entrepreneurship Seminar Series speaker Dan Cohen will speak about customer service; Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in Sage Hall, Room 09.

Steve Rushmore, founder of HVS, a global consulting and services organization focused on the hotel, restaurant, timeshare, gaming and leisure industries, will give a presentation Nov. 17 at 4:15 p.m. in 198 Statler Hall.

The event, organized on campus by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, is sponsored internationally by the Kauffman Foundation and "Make Your Mark," the United Kingdom's national campaign to give people the confidence, skills and ambition to be enterprising. Details of the Cornell event are available at http://www.eship.cornell.edu/events/gew/.