Entrepreneurial Leadership
The world needs entrepreneurial leaders to solve complex challenges that have persisted for decades or longer, as well as future ones we can’t even envision yet. Entrepreneurial leadership is both a skill set and a mindset, and entrepreneurial leaders impact businesses, organizations, and society because they put people first and manage in a relational way. Here, we illustrate the impact of entrepreneurial leadership through inspiring and uplifting stories from the Babson community and beyond.
Failure: Just What the Doctor Ordered
We’ve all heard the stories—Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, Oprah was let go from her first television job, and Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school multiple times. From these great failures came great success. But can failure work for everyone?
February 24, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Insights
Students Backing Students: The Rise of the Dorm Room Venture Capitalist
Rough Draft Ventures' peers-funding-peers model gives young entrepreneurs access to equity-free capital and resources, and gives students access to learning about the Venture Capital industry. Above all, it encourages entrepreneurship and creates a community of student founders that have gone on to launch successful ventures after graduation.
February 3, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
How Coca-Cola is Leading Women's Empowerment in the Developing World
What does it mean to empower women? For the Coca-Cola Company, women’s empowerment takes form in 5by20, a global initiative to enable the economic empowerment of 5 million women entrepreneurs across the company’s value chain by 2020.
January 5, 2017
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Fighting Global Iron Deficiency, One Lucky Iron Fish at a Time
Sets of three are lucky in Cambodia. But when Dr. Gavin Armstrong incorporated his company Lucky Iron Fish on 12/12/12, he wasn’t thinking much about luck. Rather, he was launching an innovative solution to one of Cambodia's biggest problems; iron deficiency.
December 5, 2016
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Care.com’s Sheila Lirio Marcelo's Advice for Entrepreneurial Women
In the early 2000s, the Yellow Pages just weren’t cutting it. At least not for Sheila Lirio Marcelo, who was struggling to find care for her newborn child and her ailing father. Her struggle to find suitable care inspired her to develop a better solution for families everywhere.
October 3, 2016
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
TripAdvisor's Stephen Kaufer on Shifting from Founder to CEO
Stephen Kaufer has been with TripAdvisor throughout its 16-year journey from B2B vertical search engine to becoming the world’s largest travel site. Along the way, he has steered the company through pivots, sales, acquisitions and an IPO, to become an industry-leader in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving market.
September 22, 2016
Posted in Entrepreneurial Leadership
