Student Profile – Amy Henderson, Senior - Entrepreneurship
Amy Henderson knew that she wanted to pursue her degree in entrepreneurship even before she arrived at the Price College of Business. She watched her father form his small business in Dallas, which gave her the desire to start her own someday. She believes majoring in entrepreneurship and minoring in marketing allows her to be creative and is helpful when cultivating different business ideas.
As part of her entrepreneurship experience at Price College, Henderson was accepted last spring as an intern at OU’s Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth. She worked on commercializing a medical imaging portfolio and evaluated the commercial viability of three medical imaging technologies. In the fall, she returned to CCEW as a team leader and worked on an antimicrobial peptide for an inventor from the OU Health Sciences Center. She now is preparing for the Seventh Annual Governor’s Cup in April - a statewide higher education business plan competition, where she will continue her work on a medical diagnostic technology with other former CCEW interns.
While CCEW takes up a lot of Henderson’s time, she is still extremely active on campus and within Price College. Some of her many current activities include serving as the chair of the Student Advisory Board for the JCPenney Leadership program, as a Price Ambassador and as a member of the Communication Task Force for Price College.
Henderson states that Shelly Grunsted, professor of marketing and supply chain management and director of the First Fidelity Integrated Business Core, is her favorite professor at Price College. “She genuinely cares about her students and is willing to meet and work with students to make us the best we can be. Her class was exciting and interesting, and she was able to take complex concepts and break them down into understandable material by using examples we can relate to.” Henderson also lists First Fidelity IBC as her favorite class because it helped bridge the gap from theory to practice and empowered the student to participate in real world business practices.
After graduation this May, Henderson plans to take her capstone class in Spain as part of the Price College Study Abroad program. She then will work as a teaching assistant in Arezzo, Italy, during the entrepreneurship portion of the Study Abroad program, and in August, she will begin her full-time position working for Sendero, a consulting firm in Dallas. With this self-described dream job, she will be interacting with a variety of companies and industries and can continue to learn about different businesses in the future.