Author: Doug Hardy
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.
April 30, 2013
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
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.
March 18, 2013
Posted in Insights
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.
March 18, 2013
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
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?
March 18, 2013
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
