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Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur By Richard Branson Virgin Books; 342 pages...
...want to put down the foundations of a capitalism of the entrepreneur and not of the speculator," Sarkozy said in calling for an international summit to start a new postglobalization era of economics. "We want transparency, we want moralization. We want the creation of value. We want people to have confidence." All of which Europe wanted on Saturday and now sees diminished on Monday...
...Ibrahim's experiences as an entrepreneur in Africa that convinced him to set up his foundation and create a $5 million annual prize for the African leader who best personifies responsible and credible government, which he saw as the key to African development. So why are things changing now? "[As] John Githongo [Kenya's former anticorruption czar] says, 'The democracy genie is out of the bottle,' " notes Hania Farhan, the foundation's director of research. "There will be violent ructions and eruptions, like Kenya or Zimbabwe or Nigeria, but the trend is there, and it is remarkable. Africans want their...
...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...