Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business to Host 2008 Cornerstones Symposium on Building City of the Future...( Event Showcases Pittsburgh's Entrepr...),Health

Event Showcases Pittsburgh's Entrepreneurial Transformation To World-Class

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PITTSBURGH, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and its Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship will host the 2008 Cornerstones Symposium, titled "Entrepreneurial Pittsburgh: Building Bridges to a City's New Future." The symposium, co-sponsored by the Tepper School's Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management, will take place Tuesday, March 25 on the Carnegie Mellon campus.

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There will be a pre-symposium panel and press conference Monday, March 24 at the Duquesne Club. State Secretary of Community and Economic Development Dennis Yablonsky and Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl have been invited to speak at the 4:30 p.m. press conference.

Cornerstones, founded by Carnegie Mellon Emeritus Lifetime Trustee Lucian Caste, is an outreach program of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship that highlights the unique power of collaboration and interdisciplinary culture that Carnegie Mellon brings to both academia and professional practice. Broadening the theme of collaboration, Cornerstones also underscores the many areas of cooperation between Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC for research and to help spur entrepreneurial vitality in the Pittsburgh region.

The symposium includes the broad mix of disciplines -- including architects, developers and economists; researchers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; and city planners and government policy makers -- all of whom must work together to strengthen the future of cities and their economies, their social networks and their physical infrastructure. Using Pittsburgh -- recently recognized as the leading
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