Student and Business Organizations at Brown
COE Department Undergraduate Group (COE DUG)
The COE DUG serves as a resource for COE concentrators. The DUG hosts regular meetings, engages speakers, organizes panel discussions and professor lunches, movie gatherings, job shadowings, and forms bonds among COE concentrators.
Brown University Entrepreneurship Program
The Brown University Entrepreneurship Program (EP) is a student-run organization focused on developing entrepreneurial learning, teaching, and practice. EP students learn valuable entrepreneurial skills, while building their personal networks, interacting with successful entrepreneurs, launching for-profit and non-profit ventures, and competing in business plan and other competitions.
Brown University Women in Business
Brown WIB seeks to create a foundation of career related opportunities for the undergraduate population across a broad array of industries and professions. Essential to this mission are the components of external mentorship, community initiatives, educational speakers and events, and philanthropy.
Brown Socially Responsible Investment Fund (BSRI)
Starting in Fall 2009, BSRI will manage a $50,000 pool of University money, investing in companies and mutual funds that make a profit while bettering the world. Potential investments include green energy research firms, microfinance and community lending banks, medical and pharmaceutical companies, environmentally conscious retailers, and job training or education companies — and any firm that seeks to mitigate its environmental impact or improve the lives of its customers can qualify for consideration. The fund's members will choose and evaluate potential investments, and ultimately all decisions will be made by Brown students.
Social Innovation Initiative
The Social Innovation Initiative (SII) will include programming for students across three stages, beginning by inspiring and involving students in and around social entrepreneurship, then supporting their work with skills and resources, and finally helping professionalize their efforts to be more impactful and sustainable.
Brown Investment Group (BIG)
The Brown Investment Group's (BIG) purpose is twofold: (1) to educate and provide a discussion forum for the undergraduate community regarding investing and finance-related topics, and (2) to leverage unique student insights in order to outperform the S&P 500. Currently, BIG manages over $155,000 of the university's endowment in an advisory capacity and provides students with hands-on investing experience.
Economics Department Undergraduate Group (econDUG)
econDug is an undergraduate organization that supports the study of Economics at Brown by organizing exciting events, conferences and smaller discussions with faculty, alumni and graduate students on the subjects relating to Economics, as well as identifying critical issues in the undergraduate Econ program and working on their resolution.
Brown Student Agencies (BSA)
Founded in 1969, Brown Student Agencies (BSA) is dedicated to the twofold mission of providing business experience for Brown Undergraduates and needed services to the Brown University community.
Brown Forum for Enterprise
The Brown Forum for Enterprise allows students to get exposure and connections to the entrepreneurial world. It organizes conferences and round-tables in Rhode Island to connect entrepreneurs, researchers, students, and capital sources. Students are welcome to participate in their events, join a “Facebook” for entrepreneurs, and access an e-library on entrepreneurship.