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When people say that no one else in the world makes ice cream like you do, you must be making pretty good ice cream. And so it is with Jeni Britton Bauer, art student turned world famous ice cream entrepreneur. In this conversation, Britton Bauer shares how she followed her creative instincts — and her taste buds — as she dropped out of college and decided to pursue her dr...
In his remarkable book, The Third Wave, AOL founder and tech leader Steve Case describes how we are moving beyond the internet as a communications tool to an era where it will be the hub of all we do. This “internet of everything” will create a level of connectivity that will allow forward-thinking entrepreneurs to reshape every major sector in society. But, he argues, mor...
“Only by letting millions of entrepreneurs try new ideas, to innovate, to create businesses that put those ideas to work in a competitive and open way… are we going to be able to tackle the world’s big problems.” Angel Cabrera made this statement to World Economic Forum colleagues, calling for more action to support entrepreneurs around the world. However, in emerging mar...
How can we unlock the power of entrepreneurship to widen access to health care, close gender disparity, and increase prosperity in the global South? Hear from expert voices and innovators on tools to address social, economic, and environmental challenges in developing economies.
Stuart Weitzman is one of America’s most famous shoe designers, known for outfitting countless celebrities (think Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Kate Moss) but — perhaps more importantly — women across the globe who aspire to quality, class, and style. Here, he shares the lessons of his entrepreneurial adventure — which concluded with the 2015 sale of the company for $574 mil...
What if the next great idea for transforming the lives of homeless people, restoring neighborhood economies, or moving people into middle-wage jobs, could be prototyped, tested, deployed, and funded like a Silicon Valley start-up? Simply put, that is the promise of urban innovation in America. This promise is only partially realized, however, because urban innovators strug...
There is an insatiable demand for innovation and entrepreneurship to help individuals and companies thrive in a dynamic, competitive marketplace. However, the pathway from the seeds of an idea through implementation is often fraught. This interactive talk presents a new model, the Invention Cycle, that illustrates how imagination leads to entrepreneurship. Based on classes...
All it takes is one idea to start a business to create a job. That’s the foundation to building ecosystems; and great ecosystems create jobs, prosperity, and opportunity for everyone. Ecosystems can be grown anywhere – not only in large cities, but in every town and every country. In order to do that, we need to go beyond our traditional thinking. Entrepreneurship is not j...
People exiting incarceration often struggle to find a job—and the idea of a full-fledged career is almost beyond conceiving. But through private and public partnerships, formerly incarcerated individuals are provided with professional development in leadership, entrepreneurship, and technological skills. Small scale successes show the promise of pre-release interventions,...
With the hope that economic investment will lift citizens from poverty to a level of sustainable prosperity, entrepreneurs and organizations across the globe invest time, energy, and resources in the poorest areas. Sadly, many of these efforts fail. Applying rigorous and theory-driven analysis, two experts on global prosperity identify the limits of common economic develop...
Most of us know the entrepreneurial success stories of places like Silicon Valley, the Research Triangle, and Boston. But if great ideas are everywhere, why aren’t entrepreneurial businesses thriving worldwide, in places large and small? What can we do to promote entrepreneurship in unusual places, and make sure the prosperity-creating and problem-solving power of entrepre...
With the power of a text message, the advice of a health worker fits in the palm of your hand. With innovative entrepreneurship, care becomes accessible where it previously was not. With the skill of a midwife, the pregnant woman in need of a champion thrives. Health systems may be complex, but what powers them is simple—the human beings at their backbone who are critical...
In the United States, salsa outsells ketchup as the No. 1 condiment on our tables. In the summer of 2017, the Spanish-English pop song sensation “Despacito” performed by Puerto Rican Luis Fonsi broke records as the most-viewed music video online. The American Latino is a powerful consumer group, representing $2.13 trillion in GDP. If their economic might were represented a...
A large, unsettling question looming among Washington regulators, lawmakers, and now state Attorney’s General across the US is whether the time has come to break up the big five: Facebook, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Apple. Have these powerful tech companies, once the darlings of the start-up community not twenty years past, become so dominant that they are stifling competiti...
As technology drives economic change, the discussion of the future of work seems to be binary: either dystopian or rose colored. The public policy debate has congealed around a set of silver bullet solutions — from universal basic income to coding for all — that reflect Silicon Valley’s strategy for addressing economic inequality. But what if the best strategy isn’t a sing...