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Michelle Brooke-Marciniak

From Athlete to Entrepreneur Former WNBA star and collegiate standout Michelle Brooke-Marciniak leveraged the skills and mentality she developed as an athlete to guide her career as an entrepreneur.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

March 23, 2018

Tagged Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Women's Leadership, Advice, Household Names

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

entrepreneurial leaders

Where Are The Entrepreneurial Leaders? Significant world changes have impacted today's business climate. The world requires entrepreneurial leaders, a new type of manager skilled at navigating the unknown.

March 13, 2018

Tagged Company Culture, Entrepreneurship Education, Corporate Innovation, Management

Posted in Insights

Global Entrepreneurship

Meet GEM: The Global Study of Entrepreneurship For a realistic portrait of what entrepreneurship looks like around the world, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) provides the right information.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

February 23, 2018

Tagged Research, Entrepreneurship Ecosystems, Global

Posted in Insights

inspire entrepreneurship

How to Inspire Entrepreneurship Back Home If a region really wants to inspire entrepreneurship, its leaders have no choice but to act holistically, and in the context of their own very specific environment.

By Daniel Isenberg

February 20, 2018

Tagged Entrepreneurship Ecosystems, Global

Posted in Insights

collaborative overload

How to Manage Collaborative Overload In the increasingly collaborative workplace, a proactive shift in our own behavior can prevent collaboration overload and promote meaningful engagement between employees.

By Rob Cross, Scott Taylor

January 30, 2018

Tagged Company Culture, Corporate Innovation, Management, Career, Research

Posted in Insights

healthcare innovation

Scaling and Sustaining Healthcare Innovation How can an entrepreneurial mindset and model lead to healthcare innovation?

By Wiljeana Glover

January 28, 2018

Tagged Nonprofit, Global, Social Innovation

Posted in Insights

Startup Legal Mistakes

Launching a Startup? Avoid These 3 Common Legal Mistakes In the excitement of finally launching a venture, legal questions and concerns may be at the back of a founder’s mind. But, they shouldn’t be.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

January 26, 2018

Tagged Advice, Startups

Posted in Insights

digital transformation culture

Creating a Culture of Digital Transformation Digital transformation relies on the ability to capitalize on opportunities presented by the modern digital ecosystem, including cloud infrastructure, business analytics, and the application economy.

By Patricia Guinan, Sal Parise

January 19, 2018

Tagged Technology, Company Culture

Posted in Insights

pr strategies for startups

6 Tried and True PR Strategies for Startups Ask any hustling entrepreneur and they’ll tell you: free PR isn’t free. Seeing your company’s name in print and watching new prospects click with your story is gratifying, but it requires an investment of time and energy, and can open you up to risk.

By Elizabeth Atwater

January 15, 2018

Tagged Advice, Startups

Posted in Insights

3 Principles for Navigating Change Founders and intrapreneurs share how they've navigated change in this age of constant disruption.

December 14, 2017

Tagged Management, Corporate Innovation, Advice, Startups, Company Culture

Posted in Insights