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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.

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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2026-03-31 23:32:45
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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2026-04-02 15:48:15
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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2026-03-29 11:01:58
How to Start a Business
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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2026-04-02 15:48:15
Learn hot to generate ideas with the IDEATE Method.
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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2026-04-02 15:33:29
Tomasso Hall at Night
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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2026-03-31 22:06:36
Global Entrepreneurship
A Profile of Omidyar Network Instead of simply giving money to accelerate social good, Omidyar Network behaves like a venture capital firm, investing in global businesses whose result is public good.
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March 18, 2013

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2026-04-02 07:50:28
Octopus, Social Innovation, and the Power of Narrative instead of simply giving money to accelerate social good, Omidyar Network behaves like a venture capital firm, investing in global businesses whose result is public good.
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March 18, 2013

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2026-04-02 17:43:57
Researching Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding Social Entrepreneurs, Part I Crowdfunding is an Internet-powered evolution of an age-old activity, and it’s providing social entrepreneurs with access to capital, customers, and ideas.
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March 18, 2013

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2026-04-02 17:43:57
Cheryl Kiser speaks in front of an executive education class
Social Intrapreneurship: A Conversation with Cheryl Kiser and Kevin Thompson The term Social Intrapreneurship has been cropping up lately. The Ashoka Changemakers announced a League of Intrapreneurs in September, universities are studying the practice, and intrapreneurs at companies as diverse as Ford, Nestle, Intel, Dell, and Kraft have attracted attention in the business press.
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March 18, 2013

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2026-04-02 07:50:28