Amplifying Impact Altruhelp
Amplifying Impact with AltruHelp Mathew Paisner is not your average social innovator. He heads AltruHelp, an organization that helps businesses and colleges increase volunteerism by connecting their people to personalized volunteer projects.
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May 10, 2013

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Entrepreneur Friendly Immigration Reform
Entrepreneur-Friendly Immigration Reform Immigration is a hot-button issue but, whatever their feelings about comprehensive immigration reform, business leaders and advocates are pushing the message that the political snarl over immigration is hurting American business by preventing the world’s best and brightest from working here.
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May 2, 2013

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Crowdfunding Social Entrepreneurs Part II
Crowdfunding Social Entrepreneurs, Part II Social investment platforms are as diverse as the challenges they seek to address. They share a common goal of having a positive effect and supporting social causes, but approach community engagement and fundraising differently.
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April 30, 2013

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The Fine Print on Job Creators: Part III How can you measure job creation when it’s a moving target, and what effect does policy in one area (healthcare) has on another (job creation)?
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April 17, 2013

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Fine Print Job Creators II
The Fine Print on Job Creators: Part II If you use the Small Business Administration’s definition of a small business employing fewer than 500 people, 98% of business establishments are small.
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April 5, 2013

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Lessons from Zumba: 4 Ways to Lead Your Company's Innovation and Growth Lessons from Zumba cofounders Alberto Perlman '98 and Alberto Aghion on innovation, growth, and resilience during the past decade.
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March 21, 2013

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The Sharing Economy “The best ideas are the ones that have been around for a long time," is a starting point for the growing entrepreneurial movement to exploit the notion of collective consumption putting a technology-powered new spin on sharing, renting, or bartering goods and services.
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March 18, 2013

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Got a Great Idea? Prove It Entrepreneurs by temperament are gushing wells of inspiration—new businesses, new solutions to old problems, and new approaches. In those first bursts of imagination, an opportunity appears suddenly obvious, even if the path to success will be long and full of false starts. And, then, another idea might manifest, seeming as brilliant as the first.
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March 18, 2013

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Stripped Down Business School What if business students arrived on campus already equipped with business fundamentals—the subjects of large review classes such as basic accounting, financial modeling, and marketing? How might business colleges, stripped of the need to provide everyone with a baseline of skills, still attract business-minded students?
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March 18, 2013

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How to Sell Disruption Even with a compelling story to tell, one of the most difficult chores of disrupting a market is actually convincing people they should change.
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March 18, 2013

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