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Business Dean Search: Uncovering Leadership for Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

N2Growth Blog

A truly effective leader fosters an inclusive culture of innovation and collaboration, which is critical to creating a dynamic learning environment. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, a good business program must build and maintain a culture of innovation, adaptability, and adventure (i.e., comfort with risk).

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Female Entrepreneurs Still Suffer From Implicit Bias

The Horizons Tracker

Female entrepreneurs pursuing innovative business ventures face a significant hurdle in securing funding due to unconscious bias exhibited by investors, as revealed by a study conducted by Northeastern University. The study highlights a particular instance that exemplifies the implicit biases at play.

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Leading Views: Entrepreneurs Are the Heroes of Creative Destruction

Leading Blog

In this chronological account beginning with the American Revolution, the genius of America’s innovative success is not only its tolerance of but also its penchant for creative destruction. The authors talk not only of the familiar product innovation but also America’s process innovationinnovation in management and organizing production.

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Innovative Branding For Female Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

Being a modern day figure in the marketplace of female empowerment leader and spiritual innovator leads one to believe that my life is my message, my image is my brand, my ideas are what the public is searching and looking for, if I come from that singular identity, then I am way off track. Do you ask for referrals and then follow up?

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. It’s a quality that shapes our quest to meet unmet needs of customers. And…it helps us as a society move forward in creating new opportunities for all.”

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How Innovation Changes During A Recession

The Horizons Tracker

While Winston Churchill was famously supposed to have remarked that we should never waste a crisis, the reality is that during recessions, firms often tighten their belts and reduce the amount they invest in innovation. “We examine innovation following the Great Depression using data on a century’s worth of U.S.

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Resilience Is Key For Entrepreneurs To Survive Covid

The Horizons Tracker

It’s probably fair to say that 2020 will be one that few entrepreneurs will look back on with a great deal of fondness, given the enormous turmoil foist upon global markets by the Covid pandemic. Resilience is often cited as a vital quality for entrepreneurs, and this has certainly been the case during the pandemic.