BUSINESS INSTITUTE
The Chamber’s signature strategy for increasing entrepreneurial excellence in African American businesses in Western Pennsylvania is our Business Institute.
BUSINESS INSTITUTE
The Chamber’s signature strategy for increasing entrepreneurial excellence in African American businesses in Western Pennsylvania is our Business Institute.
The Business Institute serves as a national model for developing and sustaining profitable minority-owned enterprises. This is in response to a national study conducted on sustainability and the tools needed to move a firm to the next level of engagement.
Our Vision
The Business Institute is a national model for developing and sustaining profitable minority owned enterprises.
Our Mission
To tap the expertise of the business, academic, and healthcare leaders to provide Chamber Members and small business owners the training, coaching, and leadership development needed to strengthen their business acumen to achieve entrepreneurial excellence and compete in the global marketplace.
Our Values
In executing the Business Institute mission, we are guided by the Chamber’s values of: entrepreneurial excellence, empowerment and self-sufficiency, life-long learning, innovative thinking, meaningful linkages and partnerships.
Our Vision
The Business Institute is a national model for developing and sustaining profitable minority owned enterprises.
Our Mission
To tap the expertise of the business, academic, and healthcare leaders to provide Chamber Members and small business owners the training, coaching, and leadership development needed to strengthen their business acumen to achieve entrepreneurial excellence and compete in the global marketplace.
Our Values
In executing the Business Institute mission, we are guided by the Chamber’s values of: entrepreneurial excellence, empowerment and self-sufficiency, life-long learning, innovative thinking, meaningful linkages and partnerships.
The Institute offers workshops in communications, financial and accounting and tax matters, business modeling and strategies, information technology including social media, law and legal matters, marketing, and other topics of importance for doing business in Western Pennsylvania.
Business Institute offerings carry these values through our focus areas into didactic and experiential exercises that increase learning and understanding of the realities of doing business for minorities in our region. The four foci are:
Accounting and Finance
Information Technology
Marketing and Communication
Law, Legalities and Legislation
Experts in business, industry, healthcare, technology, and the law provide basic principles, new developments, strategies in leadership and management, current thinking and advanced methods in business practices to bring the aims and values of the Institute to fruition with its participants.
The Business Institute features the expertise of industry and academic leaders who provide the coaching, leadership development, and business acumen needed to achieve entrepreneurial excellence.
Workshops since 2004, with over 2,700 participants
Members agree the Chamber is important in helping their business generate new revenue streams
of Members cited having received business or contracts directly from Chamber events
Workshops since 2004, with over 2,700 participants
Members agree the Chamber is important in helping their business generate new revenue streams
of Members cited having received business or contracts directly from Chamber events