Widener is more flexible, capable, and effective as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adapting to remote operations has positioned faculty, staff, and students with the agility to stay connected and continue to advance the university's mission.
Fueled by students with a passion for helping entrepreneurs thrive, Widener’s Small Business Development Center helped open Everest Urgent Care in Chester, part of the $42 million Silvercare Campus Project coming to the city.
From closed retail stores to restaurants only serving take-out, small businesses across the region are feeling the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Widener Small Business Development Center’s Success Lab has been named a SAP Next-Gen Lab for design thinking and analytics.
Secret shopper program offers students marketing field experience while helping businesses in the community.
Director of Widener's Small Business Development Center Lenin Agudo served as moderator for a panel discussion of resources for businesses in the area at the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's annual Closing the Gap Conference.
Lenin Agudo, director of the Widener Small Business Development Center, is quoted in this article discussing how small businesses can prepare should the tentative agreement reached in the debt crisis not pass.
Lenin Agudo, director of Widener's Small Business Development Center (SBDC), has been appointed to Tompkins Community Bank’s Pennsylvania board of directors.
Lenín Agudo, director for Widener's Small Business Development Center, comments on the opening of Juniata Supermarket's second location. According to Agudo, the immigrant-owned local grocery store, like other family-owned businesses and BIPOC entrepreneurs, contributes to community development and stimulates the local and national economy.
Lenin Agudo, director of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), writes about the ways in which the SBDC and students in the School of Business Administration supported the development of the new Silvercare Health Center in Chester.