Corporate Challenge

The Great American Homeowner Challenge TM with David Bach, and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage as founding sponsor, is designed to inspire 10 million Americans to buy a first, second or investment home — you can be one of them!

Tell us your homeownership story or why you want to own a home!





Enter our Take The Challenge TM Essay Contest and tell us YOUR homeownership story. You could be selected by a panel of judges to win up to $250,000 after taxes toward the purchase of a home. To enter, tell us your story about homeownership. Select one of three topics and submit an essay of up to 350 words. You could be the grand prize winner and on your way to financial security. Grand Prize award to be announced March 2007.


Corporate Challenge specializes in outdoor, fun, interactive team building and experiential learning programs designed to promote team spirit and a winning, participative culture.

Corporate Challenge responds to your specific needs, agenda and budget. Our innovative, effective and enjoyable active learning experiences are specifically tailored to match your organization's team and management development plans.

Corporate Challenge has been in Team Building and Corporate Health and Fitness development since 1994. We offer a complete array of tailored team building programs, developed from our years of experience in adventure training and corporate team building.

The Oreck Challenge

Vacuum Mogul Shares Secrets of Success

The man known for his straight-shooting television ads for Oreck XL vacuums will talk about "Building a Brand.

David Oreck, the colorful founder of Oreck Corp., will speak as part of the College of Business' continuing Business Leader Lecture Series.
Oreck, 80, has been the company's chief spokesman in TV, radio and print ads for 40 years.

Oreck found success in 1963, when he created Oreck. Corp. to develop and sell lightweight upright vacuum s to the hotel industry. Oreck recognized that hotel workers were unhappy with the cumbersome machines on the market at the time. Word of mouth spread. Soon, homeowners demanded the machines.

Today, Oreck Corp. employs 1,500 at its headquarters in New Orleans, La., and factory in Long Beach, Miss.

An avid pilot, Oreck flew combat missions in a B-29 with the Army Air Force in World War II. Today he maintains a fleet of vintage airplanes.

Some highlights of Oreck's lectures:

• The do’s and don’ts of building a brand name in America.

• Why are so many classic brand names dead or dying?

• The future significance of ‘Made in the USA’