From Problems to Possibilities: Babson’s New Entrepreneurial Leadership Podcast

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Entrepreneurial leaders know no limits. They’re not constrained by the organizations they serve, the titles they hold, or the problems they encounter as they work to find solutions and create new possibilities. 

“One can be an entrepreneurial leader from any position in the organization,” says Professor Danna Greenberg, chair of the Management Division at Babson College. 

Babson College has launched its first podcast focused on entrepreneurial leadership, “From Problems to Possibilities: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Action.” The first three episodes now are available on Apple, Spotify, and Amazon. Each episode of the podcast focuses on how entrepreneurial leaders are solving some of the world’s biggest challenges—from women’s health care to sustainability in business to mental health—with the unique skills and leadership that the world needs today. 


NEW PODCAST: Learn more about Babson’s new podcast,”From Problems to Possibilities.”


In the debut episode, Greenberg and Professor Scott Taylor discuss what entrepreneurial leadership is, why it’s important, and how entrepreneurial leaders are capable of tackling the world’s most pressing problems. Greenberg, also the Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Taylor, the Arthur M. Blank Endowed Chair for Values-Based Leadership, along with four Babson College colleagues, recently published groundbreaking new research on entrepreneurial leadership

Listen to their discussion in the first episode of “From Problems to Possibilities: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Action”:

Two additional episodes of the podcast also have been released: 

The first, titled “Believe Them, Include Them, Fund Them,” explores how entrepreneurial leaders are improving healthcare for women, featuring: Elissa Kalver ’09, founder and CEO of WeGotThis.org; Associate Professor Wiljeana Glover, founding faculty director, Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Elizabeth Bailey, co-founder and managing director of Foreground Capital; and Mary Tinebra MBA’90, business partner and chief commercialization officer at Inflection. 

The second, “Trust the System,” examines the role of systems thinking and biomimicry in creating sustainable businesses, featuring: Ela Gokcigdem ’24, a blue economy specialist; Vikki Rodgers, professor of ecology and science director at Babson; and Babson Trustee Ramón Mendiola ’86, P’20 ’21 ’23, the former CEO of the Florida Ice and Farm Company. 

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