Cameron and Robert McNair Partner to Support Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Representatives of the Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas announced that the school has partnered with The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation to support the establishment of The McNair Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. The McNair Center aims to produce and examine research and educate students on the role of individual action, private enterprise, and principled entrepreneurship in fostering economic growth and human development. The center will focus on small businesses and entrepreneurship in the science and biotech industries.
“Janice and I are excited to join with the University of St. Thomas in establishing The McNair Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship,” Robert McNair said. “Entrepreneurship is a science and an art that requires not only keen business acumen but a principled focus on personal responsibility, character and authentic human goodness beyond profit. The research and public policy activities of The McNair Center at St. Thomas will focus on the role of principled entrepreneurship in promoting economic growth—a significant need in today’s business environment.”
The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation has donated $5 million to support the center, which will be built on the UST campus in Houston.
“The founding of the Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the University speaks to our commitment to training students to engage in entrepreneurial and innovative thinking when addressing business challenges,” said the Dean of the Cameron School of Business, Dr. Beena George. “That creativity, an essential element of such entrepreneurial activity, is a catalyst for progress and for development of solutions that generate business value with concern for people and planet.”
