Leadership and Entrepreneurship

10/20/2009 4:00 PM e51"335David Fialkow, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners; Ben Fischman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Retail Convergence, Inc.; Alex Laats, 89, President, BBN Technologies' Delta DivisionDescription: While their ventures couldn't be more dissimilar -- ...

Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's ...

05/07/2009 4:30 PM Sheraton BostonWilliam Aulet, SM '94, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Jacques Beaudry"Losique, SM '92, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy; U.S. Department of Energy; ; Christina Lampe"Onnerud, Founder and CEO, ...

MIT's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

In this new documentary, Lawrence Gallagher and Chris Boebel present the loosely interconnected groups that form MIT's "entrepreneurial ecosystem". The Ecosystem: Nurturing Entrepreneurship at MIT looks at the role the Institute has played in job creation and the way it continues to maintain ...

Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa

09/21/2009 4:00 PM 34"101President John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001"2009Description: After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home"grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to ...

Defining Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Martin Trust Center for ...

From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist's ...

10/07/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Dr. Charles C"Y Zhang, Ph.D. 94, Founder, Chairman CEO SOHU.COMDescription: Few better personify the vitality and ambition fueling China's economic surge than Charles C"Y Zhang. In this energetic and revelatory talk, Zhang relates his personal ...

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

"The whole of the MIT Executive MBA focuses on the innovative and the entrepreneurial," according to program director Jonathan Lehrich. More info on the MIT EMBA at http://emba.mit.edu/

Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing ...

09/21/2006 7:00 PM KresgeAlex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media Lab; Damien Balsan, SM '02, VP Business Development, WAY Systems ; Rick Burnes, Co-founder, Charles River Ventures; ...

Entrepreneurship: Started in Latin America, For the World

For the last 15 years, the MIT Sloan School of Management has been home to the Institute's most renowned gathering of Latin-American leaders at the MIT Latin American Conference.On Saturday, March 10, 2012, in Wong Auditorium, some of the most important business and ...

The Ecosystem: Nurturing Entrepreneurship at MIT

How do the innovative technologies developed at MIT change the world? How are new drugs brought to market, new energy solutions deployed, and new information technology products distributed? The answer is innovation-based entrepreneurship. From its founding, MIT has ...

GWAMIT Leadership Conference - Entrepreneurship Panel

Discover how to start your own business or lab. Bettina Hein of Pixability, Daphne Zohar of Pure Tech Ventures, and Dr. Rosalind Picard of Affectiva Inc. each share their unique perspectives on the benefits, hardships, and lives of the entrepreneur, as well as the ...

Creating a Dynamic Venue for MIT Entrepreneurship

BLOSSOMS - Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Portuguese ...

The video lesson seeks to encourage students to see the world with a fresh perspective for innovation through interactive classroom brainstorming activities and real life stories. Students will build self-efficacy in their own entrepreneurial potential by developing ...

Going Bananas [MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition]

http://www.mit100k.org | Are you a current student? Then pitch your idea in the 2010 MIT $100K Elevator Pitch Contest. Registration is open until 10/18, 6PM EST... register here: http://register.mit100k.org. Whether you pitch or not, come to the MIT $100K Elevator ...

The Ecosystem: Nurturing Entrepreneurship at MIT (Trailer)

From its founding, MIT has been an engine of both local and global economic growth, playing a key role in the creation of thousands of companies and millions of jobs. More recently, MIT sits at the center of an entrepreneurial boom due to an "entrepreneurial ...