Oberlin’s Entrepreneurship Symposium celebrates the launch of the Creativity & Leadership project by creating a forum in which to define and explore entrepreneurship in a liberal arts setting. The symposium is designed to provoke dialogue among students, faculty, and alumni, and to introduce students to a network of student, faculty, alumni, and regional entrepreneurs and advocates.

INVENTING THE FUTURE will explore entrepreneurship within the fields of finance, the environment, the arts, and social enterprise, as well as the intersections among market, social, civic, and arts entrepreneurship. The symposium will feature keynote speakers and panelists, and provide opportunities for all participants to meet informally to share their own entrepreneurial ideas and ventures.

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Michael Alexin joined Target in 2002 as Vice President, Softlines Design and Product Development, responsible for all creative direction, product design, materials R&D and technical development of Target's apparel and accessory products.   He also is the executive co-chair of Target's Sustainability Council.

Michael came to Target from Eddie Bauer, where he spent two years as Senior VP of Design and Product Development.  Prior to Eddie Bauer, Michael spent four years at Nike as the Global Director of Apparel Merchandising, and seven years at Levi's, where he was the Director of Product and Development for the Dockers Division.

Michael is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College.