Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’
The role of business schools in creating national entrepreneurial ecosystems: The case of Egypt and the AUC School of Business
Complex Societal Impact Projects Requiring Tri-Sector Collaboration and Cooperation: In today’s time and age, economies worldwide, especially in emerging markets-need an effective and innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem that is government-enabled, private-sector-led, innovation-driven, youth-empowered, and future-oriented (Kamel, 2016). Over the last few decades, the acceleration of digital transformation and the gradual move from high-tech to deep-tech through artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud computing, and big data, coupled with an evolving entrepreneurial mindset, has dominated various societies in developed and emerging economies, given the potential opportunities created and the growing global population of digital natives (Schroeder, 2017).
Read MoreFavela Business School
Brazilian favelas and their peripheries are powerful territories economically, financially, and geographically. Many organisations have seen the potential of these areas but often face the challenge of accessing and building content that is both solid and relevant to the reality, language, and characteristics of favela entrepreneurship. From this scenario and from the partnership of Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) and Central Única das Favelas (CUFA), the Favela Business School was born.
Read MoreE4Impact MBA, the training programme dedicated to the new generation of African entrepreneurs
With the highest entrepreneurship rate in the world (22%) and a rapidly growing demographic population (1.2 billion), Africa is a continent rich in business opportunities. The challenge is to turn its potential into a source of concrete and inclusive development in a reality where the business mortality rate continues to be very high (80%). Among the reasons for this negative statistic is the large skills gap in management and financial planning.
Read MoreGlobal responsibility in practice: Examples of collaboration, alliance, and inter-dependency from GRLI partners and associates
For GRLI Partners and Associates, alliances and connections acknowledge the truth of our interdependency and the power that comes from bringing the best of different elements together. See three case studies.
Read MoreAsia’s social entrepreneurs and inclusive growth: Do well, do good… do sustainably
Sheetal (Mittal) Bhardwaj, Havovi Joshi and Howard Thomas explain how social entrepreneurship creates both economic and social value, driving inclusive growth in Asia.
Read MoreEnhancing business school education and business performance through intellectual property
Christian Archambeau looks on why intellectual property is important to businesses and accordingly to business schools
Read MoreEntrepreneurship for Good
Bound by strong humanist values, Live for Good, a not-for-profit association committed to youth and an expert in positive impact entrepreneurship, and CEDEP, the Executive Education Club share a common vision of business.
Read MoreRising model of “3I” circles
Innovation and entrepreneurship are widely regarded as the important basis for sustainable competitive advantage by enhancing capabilities for business growth.
Read MoreRedefining innovation and entrepreneurship
Saleema Vellani explores the entrepreneurial mindset and considers how the future landscape of personal exploration, employment and industry will require ubiquitous innovation skills of new graduates and business leaders alike.
Read MoreDeveloping entrepreneurship in Russia
The “PRACTICUM Programme” was inaugurated in 2012, the year Vitaly Polekhin came to the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO with the idea for a new educational programme for the founders and CEOs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Read MoreHow applying indigenous culture to deliver entrepreneurship education contributes to economic reconciliation
Over 200,000 Indigenous people in 203 distinct First Nations live in British Columbia, Canada. While each Nation has its unique history and traditions, they all experience ongoing personal, cultural, ecological, and economic impacts of colonisation.
Read MoreStart-up
Emerging economies need an effective entrepreneurial ecosystem that is government-enabled, youth-led, private sector-supported and future-oriented, says Sherif Kamel.
Read MoreBuilding the new entrepreneurial society
Since the financial crash of 2008, the world has been struggling to “get back to normal”. But, to quote Charles Handy, “the past is not the future”.
Read MoreBenefitting from balance
Alison Lloyd describes the success of a multidiscipline approach to nurturing entrepreneurial capabilities benefitting from balance.
Read MoreResponsible innovation: The entrepreneurial imperative
Philippe de Woot argues that we need to transform our creativity into real progress for humankind and shows how social innovation can open the door for new methods and practices.
Read MoreGrowing the impact of management education and scholarship
Management is not only taught in business schools. For more than 100 years it has also been taught by a special type of university that is ‘more than a business school’. An international group of university leaders trace the emergence, role and future contributions of ‘universities for business and management’.
Read MoreCrowdsourced
Kenneth W Freeman and Howard Thomas outline some of the crowdsourced ideas about the future of business schools and other institutions that emerged from the first Business Education Jam.
Read MoreSocial intrapreneurs and The Jazz Age
Social intrapreneurs are rarely individual heroes but more like jazz musicians jamming in a group. But sometimes, say David Grayson, Melody McLaren and Heika Spitzeck, they need even bigger groups – a fully orchestrated ‘big band’.
Read MoreUncertainty and the “entrepreneurial mindset”
From the freedom to act and the necessity to invent and innovate, today’s economy is increasingly an entrepreneurial one.
Read MoreRethinking enterprise
Philippe de Woot, in an article based on his latest book, Rethinking the Enterprise, Competitiveness, Technology and Society, argues that economic actions based on ethical and political dimensions are increasingly essential.
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