Word: entrepreneur
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...project to promote social entrepreneurship. The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative was formed in 1993.OUTWARD BOUNDGrossman, a professor of management practice at the Business School, got his first exposure to business as a child sitting at the family dinner table.“My father was an entrepreneur,” Grossman said, “and the topics around the dinner table were on business, including successes and disappointments. As a result, I found business intriguing from a very early age.”These discussions included the question of how to balance the pursuit of profit with maintaining one?...
...from around the world gathered at the Sheraton Boston for Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business’s fourth annual Intercollegiate Business Convention. Highlights of the conference included question and answer sessions with Pinkberry founder Shelly Hwang and DreamWorks chief executive Stacey Snider, and a keynote address by makeup entrepreneur Bobbi Brown. The weekend also featured 44 “break-out sessions” that included résumé reviews, mock interviews, lectures, panel discussions on a wide range of topics such as work-life balance, gender dynamics in the workplace, and the economy’s impact...
...Stroka, the OneSeason CEO, and his investors, which have given the young entrepreneur some $2 million to start the company, are betting that, in the Internet age, people feel comfortable with virtual property. He points to Second Life, the wildly popular simulation game where you can speculate in digital real estate with real money. He also mentions Facebook, where you can spend a buck on electronic flowers for your girlfriend. But in these examples, at least you can see that pretty house or flower on your screen. For a $15 share of Brett Favre, you see his headshot and statistics...
...There are really two Chinas,” he said, “One is a more entrepreneur China, and the other is a more state-controlled China...
...China’s current urbanization happened at a cost of the more entrepreneur China,” he said...