Awards



Entrepreneurship


Best New Venture Business Plan


Cash awards are given for the Best Graduate and Undergraduate Business Plans through the generous support of our Advisory Board.
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Best New Venture Plan Presentation, Entrepreneurship Classes


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Community Awards


Celebrating Achievement, Excellence and Impact in our Community. Each year LMU honors up to three Entrepreneurs in our community. These communities touch Westchester, LMU's home, thus the area is LA's westside.
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The Conrad Hilton Best Social Entrepreneurship New Venture Plan


Student entrepreneurs impacting the world.
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Diamond in the Rough


Through a wonderful grant from the Coleman Foundation (Fannie May Candies) this award is being created to help identify, encourage, support, mentor, hone, polish and develop young entrepreneurs in their early years so that they fulfill their potential and destiny, and become the outstanding young undergraduate collegiate entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneurial Dream Box


As a motivation to our best students, we present them with our coveted Entrepreneur's Dream Box.This honors their past achievements, and motivates them to fill the box to overflowing with mementos of future achievements. We also present this box to outstanding entrepreneurs, educators and leaders who are supporters of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education worldwide.
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Entrepreneurial Student of the Year


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Hilton Distinguished Intern


For Graduates and Undergraduates. Honors exceptional interns for their service to LMU's Entrepreneurship Program each year.
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John Keenan Entrepreneurial Scholars


John Keenan, CLU, is the founder and Chairman of Keenan & Associates, one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in America and the largest in California, with $130,000,000 in revenues. He has over 700 employees in 10 offices, specializing in insurance services for schools, municipalities, and hospitals. The firm is an ESOP, with 45% of the ownership held by his employees. He entered the insurance industry after serving in the Korean War. He is a leader in encouraging and enabling minorities to enter the insurance industry. Mr. Keenan graduated from LMU in 1952.
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LMU New Idea + Elevator Presentation Competition


Have you ever hit yourself over the head and said, "I thought of that idea a long time ago," when a new idea hit the market and was a big success?These are students who brought their ideas to life.
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Ricci Family Entrepreneurial Scholars


Michael and Sheila Ricci have endowed a Scholarship Fund for highly qualified, needy students with an entrepreneurial emphasis. The student applicants can be in the undergraduate or graduate programs. The scholarships are set up to help as many students as possible with the potential of covering up to full tuition.
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Southern California Entrepreneurship Academy


Sponsored by entrepreneurs, this powerful organization provides year-long real life experiences to students from all southern California universities.
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Student Entrepreneurial Heroes


LMU entrepreneurial students are required to create a business plan for a new venture. The best of these plans are entered in national competitions. Our students have been very successful in these competitions, often getting into the national finals on a competitive basis, and earning a number of top level national awards.
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Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Top Academic Student Of The Year


Celebrates the top academic students.
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