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Entrepreneurship

  • Jeff Fager '77 (left), chairman of CBS News, moderates the panel discussion at The TimesCenter. (Photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio)
    After Clayton Christensen predicted that half of higher education institutions will either be facing bankruptcy or in liquidation within 10 to 15 years, six liberal arts presidents expressed varying degrees of concern, ranging from “no­t worried” (Georgia Nugent, president emeritus of Kenyon College) to “only the paranoid survive” (ĢƵ President Jeffrey Herbst). Christensen, author of […]
    May 5, 2014
  • The stage is set for a robust discussion today, as nearly 400 leaders in business and higher education gather to attend ĢƵ’s Innovation + Disruption symposium at the TimesCenter in New York City.  (The symposium begins at 8:30 a.m., and can be viewed live.) The high-level crowd includes 15 college presidents, online education providers, […]
    May 5, 2014
  • Katie Finnegan '05
    There are finals, and then there are finales. ĢƵ launched its Entrepreneur Professional Network on April 11, the grand finale in a series of network launches that have taken place throughout the academic year. The reception took place backstage after ĢƵ’s Entrepreneur Weekend all-star panel, and hundreds of alumni and guests were in attendance.
    April 18, 2014
  • Julian Farrior '93 speaks to the audience after receiving the ĢƵ's inaugural Entrepreneur of the Year award. (Photo by Andy Daddio)
    Day two of ĢƵ’s Thought Into Action Entrepreneur Weekend proved what Friday evening’s superstar panel had already established: Success is not a zero-sum game, especially when the players in question are student entrepreneurs in ĢƵ’s Thought Into Action (TIA) weekend mentorship program. In a Shark Tank-like session on Friday night, three student ventures, each with […]
    April 14, 2014
  • Ariel Sherry ‘15 pitches her Age Together consulting service on Friday night. (Photo by Andy Daddio)
    ĢƵ was the center of the entrepreneurial universe for a few hours Friday night, April 11, when more than 2,000 students, parents, and others streamed into Cotterell Court for a frank and freewheeling panel discussion that featured some of the biggest names in the business of disruptive technology.
    April 14, 2014
  • This discussion from ĢƵ’s Entrepreneur Weekend features Ashton Kutcher, actor, director, entrepreneur and investor; Daniel Rosensweig P’15’17, former COO of Yahoo, CEO of Guitar Hero, and now CEO of Chegg; Tony Bates, former executive vice president of development and strategy for Microsoft, CEO of Skype, and head of enterprise for Cisco Systems; Brian Chesky, co-founder […]
    April 14, 2014