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Dan Isenberg

A Worthless, Impossible, & Stupid Recipe for Policy Success Can an inspirational story catalyze a business or kick-start a career?

By Elizabeth Atwater

November 11, 2013

Tagged Books, Commentary

Posted in Insights

Innovation Culture

Want an Innovation Culture? Get the People Issues Right A company's people issues have the greatest power to shape its innovation culture and create a sustained competitive advantage.

By Jay Rao, Joseph Weintraub

November 1, 2013

Tagged Company Culture, Corporate Innovation, Management, Commentary

Posted in Insights

organization enterprise

Forget Organization: Embrace Enterprise In the case of organization vs enterprise, the latter is a call to adventure.

By Anirudh Dhebar

October 29, 2013

Tagged Management, Corporate Innovation

Posted in Insights

Work Twitter

Should You Have A Work Twitter? Information gleaned from Twitter networks can trigger new ideas and inspire innovation.

By Sal Parise, Eoin Whelan

October 23, 2013

Tagged Mentoring & Networking, Corporate Innovation, Research

Posted in Insights

Hanging in the Balance

Hanging in the Balance with Sophia Chang Both personally and professionally, Sophia Chang is a master of the balancing act.

By Elizabeth Atwater

October 17, 2013

Tagged Women's Leadership, Mentoring & Networking, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds, Household Names

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Mapping the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Mapping the Entrepreneurial Spirit What makes certain places more entrepreneurial than others?

By Martin Obschonka

September 30, 2013

Tagged Research, Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Posted in Insights

Keeping it in the Family

Keeping It In The Family My two sisters and I have always had the family business itch, but it took a few years—and a pregnancy—to come up with the right idea.

September 17, 2013

Tagged Family Entrepreneurship, Women's Leadership

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Researching Crowdfunding

Researching Crowdfunding? Start Here. 5 theories from economics and psychology that anyone researching crowdfunding should know.

By Andrew Zacharakis, Will Drover

September 13, 2013

Tagged VC & Investing, Technology

Posted in Insights

Accounting for Entrepreneurship on the Inside

Accounting for Entrepreneurship Inside Entrepreneurship and accounting are rarely, if ever, discussed together in the same sentence. PricewaterhouseCoopers, with more than 180,000 employees spread across 158 countries, is happy to change that perception.

By Elizabeth Atwater

September 4, 2013

Tagged Career, Corporate Innovation, Entrepreneurship of All Kinds

Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid

What Entrepreneurship Educators Need To Know About Being Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid Entrepreneurship is characterized by growing ventures that everyone else—even the smartest among us—thinks are worthless, impossible, or stupid.

By Daniel Isenberg

August 30, 2013

Tagged Books, Entrepreneurship Education

Posted in Insights