Tag: Books

Beyond the Champion

Why Aren't Companies Getting Better At Breakthrough Innovation? According to the book Beyond the Champion, organizations that want to compete on innovation must treat it as a team sport.

By Elizabeth Atwater

August 27, 2018

Tagged Corporate Innovation, Company Culture, Management, Research, Books, Faculty

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Summer Reads for Entrepreneurs

5 Summer Reads for Entrepreneurs Summer provides the perfect opportunity to catch up on that stack of books you’ve been meaning to tackle. Not sure where to start? Here’s an entrepreneurship-focused list of summer reads to get you going.

By Kait Smith Lanthier

July 2, 2018

Tagged Books

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Gig Economy

5 Rules for Success in the Gig Economy Five rules to remember if you're an entrepreneur looking to survive and thrive in the gig economy.

April 10, 2018

Tagged Career, Advice, Books, Commentary

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Conscious Capitalism

Capitalism That Works For All Ten characteristics of Conscious Capitalism: a system serves the interests of customers, employees, investors, communities, suppliers, and the environment.

December 5, 2017

Tagged Books, Social Innovation

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teaching entrepreneurship heidi neck

Teaching Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Heidi Neck Heidi Neck, one of the most influential thinkers in teaching entrepreneurship, speaks about her book and the importance of entrepreneurship education.

By Elizabeth Atwater

April 27, 2017

Tagged Entrepreneurship Education, Books, Research

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Peers Inc

Can the Collaborative Economy Fix Climate Change? How collaborative economy ventures, including car-sharing platforms such as BlaBlaCar, Lyft, and Uber, are helping combat climate change.

By Elizabeth Atwater

August 31, 2015

Tagged Social Innovation, Startups, Books

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Objective Entrepreneur

How to Become an Objective Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs can be so tied up in their ventures and blinded by unyielding passion that often they don’t see things clearly and therefore can’t respond objectively.

By Elizabeth Atwater

March 16, 2015

Tagged Books, Commentary

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Creating Social Value

Writing the Book on Creating Social Value When Cheryl Kiser began teaching a graduate course called Social Value Creation Matters three years ago, neither she nor her students could have predicted that their classroom discussions were laying the groundwork for a book.

By Elizabeth Atwater

April 22, 2014

Tagged Books, Social Innovation

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Dan Isenberg

A Worthless, Impossible, & Stupid Recipe for Policy Success Can an inspirational story catalyze a business or kick-start a career?

By Elizabeth Atwater

November 11, 2013

Tagged Books, Commentary

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Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid

What Entrepreneurship Educators Need To Know About Being Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid Entrepreneurship is characterized by growing ventures that everyone else—even the smartest among us—thinks are worthless, impossible, or stupid.

By Daniel Isenberg

August 30, 2013

Tagged Books, Entrepreneurship Education

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