Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Small Ones
Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Small Ones
11/02/2006 12:00 PM E51-115 WongDan Hesse, SM '89, Chairman and CEO EmbarqDescription: Given the choice, Dan Hesse would opt for working in a big company rather than a small one, especially when it comes to innovating. He backs up this preference with years of ...
Trust Center TV: December 3, 2012
Trust Center TV: December 3, 2012
Bill recaps a talk about immigration and entrepreneurship, and there are some competitions approaching.
The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy
The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy
11/16/2009 6:00 PM KresgeBo Fishback, VP, Entrepreneurship, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; Eugene Fitzgerald, '85, Merton C. Flemings"SMA Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Helen Greiner, '89, CEO, The Droid Works; Daphne Zohar, Founder ...
The Next Giant Leaps in Energy, Environment, & Air ...
The Next Giant Leaps in Energy, Environment, & Air Transportation
06/11/2009 1:00 PM KresgeThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; Dr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ...
The Coming Industrial Revolution
The Coming Industrial Revolution
Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman, and CTO, Rethink Robotics, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and the founder, chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics, Inc. He also has a ...
The Clean Energy Revolution
The Clean Energy Revolution
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
Technology, Progress, and Employment Panel Discussion
Technology, Progress, and Employment Panel Discussion
Moderator: Andrew McAfee, 1988, 1989, LGO 1990 Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Digital Business Panelists: Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist, Kaggle Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media, Inc. ...
Talk to an Angel: Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital
Talk to an Angel: Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital
06/07/2006 7:00 PM KresgeJames Geshwiler, MBA '00, Managing Partner, Common Angels; Cynthia Fisher, Co-Founder and President ViaCell, Inc; David Friend, CEO and President Carbonite; Bob Greene, SM '88, Managing Partner Contour Venture Partners; John May, Managing ...
Startup 3.0: Seeing the System - Part 2 of 2
Startup 3.0: Seeing the System - Part 2 of 2
The use of system dynamics to model entrepreneurship and start-up engineering, conducted by MIT SDM Fellow Fady Saad.
Startup 3.0: Seeing the System - Part 1 of 2
Startup 3.0: Seeing the System - Part 1 of 2
The use of system dynamics to model entrepreneurship and start-up engineering, conducted by MIT SDM Fellow Fady Saad.
Start-Up Thinking: How Systems Thinking Helps ...
Start-Up Thinking: How Systems Thinking Helps Entrepreneurial Ventures ...
About the Presentation Soon after a business plan is hatched and long before manufacturing ramps up, start-ups begin to apply systems design principles to create their breakthrough products. It turns out that systems engineering, an art developed and perfected in ...
Start-Up Thinking
Start-Up Thinking: How Systems Thinking Helps Entrepreneurial Ventures ...
About the Presentation Soon after a business plan is hatched and long before manufacturing ramps up, start-ups begin to apply systems design principles to create their breakthrough products. It turns out that systems engineering, an art developed and perfected in ...
Race Against the Machine
Race Against the Machine
Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD 1991 Director, The MIT Center for Digital Business, Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
Placing Your Bets: Where Will the Smart Money Land?
Placing Your Bets: Where Will the Smart Money Land?
06/02/2004 7:00 PM Robert Metcalfe, '68, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners; Founder, 3Com Corporation; Ann Winblad, Co-founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director and Chairman of Garage Technology VenturesDescription: In ...
MIT's Entrepreneurial Development and Impact Over the Past ...
MIT's Entrepreneurial Development and Impact Over the Past 50 Years
06/05/2010 9:00 AM Wong AuditoriumEdward B. Roberts, '57, SM '58, SM '60, PhD '62, David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology; Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship CenterDescription: Ed Roberts reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of ...
Legatum Lecture : Dr. Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures
Legatum Lecture : Dr. Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures
Afeyan, Noubar Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Ventures Noubar Afeyan is Managing Partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a firm he co-founded in 2000 that focuses on inventing, launching, funding and building new ventures. He is also a Senior ...
Leadership Development
Leadership Development
12/05/2008 12:00 PM Faculty ClubEric Amundsen, '94, SM '99, Associate, Wolf Greenfield; Karina Funk, CE '97, Equity Research, Winslow Management Company; Ajit Kambil, '85, SM '89, PhD '93, Global Research Director, Deloitte; Dava Newman, Sm '89, PhD '92, Professor of Aeronautics and ...
Leadership and Entrepreneurship
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 -- ...
Innovation to Commercialization: Using Government Funding ...
Innovation to Commercialization: Using Government Funding to Kick Start ...
06/04/2008 7:00 PM KresgeBruce Gellerman, Public Radio International ; Thomas Allnutt, Program Director, National Science Foundation; Milton Chen, vsee; Christopher Loose , PhD '07 , Founder and Chief Technology Officer, SteriCoat Corp; Bill Townsend , SM '84, PhD '88 ...
From Information Theory Courses at MIT to Providing Chips ...
From Information Theory Courses at MIT to Providing Chips and Technology ...
02/19/2009 4:30 PM 10"250Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, SM '57 PhD '59, Chairman, Qualcomm, Inc.Description: Cellphone and mobile communication aficionados (not to mention the rest of us) appreciate that our favorite tech gadgets increasingly resemble props from Star Trek. A ...