Feature Channels: Entrepreneurship

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Through New Mexico Small Business Assistance, Sandia is solving technical challenges to help one company reconfigure an old ethanol plant and, in a separate project, helping a cohort of companies characterize new composite materials made from forest slash.

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Stony Brook Wholehearted Foods is the only company in the U.S. producing culinary oil from vegetable seed waste, and one of the only producers of culinary butternut squash oils in the northeast.

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The undergraduate Entrepreneurship program at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has earned the No. 15 spot in the 2019 list of Best Undergraduate Business Programs in U.S. News and World Report.

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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced Buffalo-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has formed the Innovative Immunotherapy Alliance S.A., the first-ever biotech venture between the U.S. and Cuba.

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"Practice makes perfect" is age-old wisdom that applies to musicians, gamers, speakers — even fly fishermen. A new book by University of Washington professor Patrick Dobel argues that such thinking can also guide public leaders to manage their organizations more ethically and effectively.

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Babson College, the recognized world leader in entrepreneurship education, has appointed Agnieszka Kuzniarski to the position of managing director of Babson Dubai—the College’s newest global location.

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Natalie Cucchiara (Class of 2020) is a senior coordinating producer on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” When Darden opened its new facilities in Rosslyn, Virginia — across the Potomac River from D.C.— it opened a whole slate of new possibilities for aspiring MBA students like Cucchiara.

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Donald Trump has taken the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, imposed tariffs on European, Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum, and levied a first batch of tariffs on Chinese imports — announcing this week the plan to tariff an additional $200 billion of Chinese goods.

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The Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship and the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have named alumna Tobi Saulnier, Ph.D., founder and CEO of 1st Playable Productions, as the 2018 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year. Dr. Saulnier will be formally honored in a ceremony on Oct. 3.

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A recent study finds that the tool most often used to assess the efficiency of nonprofit organizations isn’t just inaccurate – it can actually be negatively correlated with efficiency.

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The Cornell Food Venture Center helped the company Masala Mama bring its four all-natural Indian simmer sauces to market.

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Babson College has announced the appointment of Janos Stone as Manager of Innovation and Design Spaces for its new Weissman Foundry.

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Directors from APX, a Berlin-based venture accelerator visited the Darden School of Business recently to share a European perspective on venture creation and acceleration with students and faculty, further strengthening the ties between the School and Europe’s startup community.

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Mayo Clinic and Pontiac Land Group today announced plans to expand the Gonda Building on Mayo’s Rochester campus to support the growing need for additional clinical space, and to offer patients and visitors to the community a premier hospitality experience. The Mayo collaboration with Pontiac Land, a Singapore-based real estate developer, will help accelerate this long-planned expansion.

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Kosmos Innovation Center facilitates the development of entrepreneurs and businesses, with a focus on the agribusiness sector. A partnership between three organizations, it is led by Kosmos Energy, a global energy company; DAI Global, an international development company; and Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology.

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UWM's Prototyping Center works with academics, students and local businesses to test and make prototypes of potential new products.

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Babson College will honor Sundial Brands Founder, CEO and Executive Chairman Richelieu Dennis, Babson Class of 1991, with the Babson College Alumni Entrepreneur Award. Dennis also is Founder and Chairman – Essence Ventures. Babson will honor Dhairya Gupta MBA ’08, co-founder, AllizHealth; Chinmoy Mishra MBA ’08, co-founder, AllizHealth; and Dandan Zhu ’09, founder, Dandan Global, with the Alumni Rising Star Awards. Ceremonies will take place at Babson College’s Wellesley campus on Friday, September 21, 2018.

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The UVA Darden School of Business is betting that the companies that most successfully navigate incidences of racial bias among their employees, issues of sexual harassment and other social ills — and do their part to get rid of them — will be the most successful companies of the next century.

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Two Darden alumni distilling on opposite coasts and making radically different products are in many ways emblematic of the movement, each trading successful financial careers to pursue a passion to craft a handmade product on a human scale.

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While conventional wisdom says that people don’t like uncertain gains or rewards, a study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that uncertainty can play an important role in motivating repeat behaviors.

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The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is expanding its program to advance technologies that address the interconnection of food, water and energy.

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The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation announced today that Meaghan Stovel McKnight has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, a new position within the Foundation.

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New research from Binghamton University, State University at New York finds that showing compassion to subordinates almost always pays off, especially when combined with the enforcement of clear goals and benchmarks.

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The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced three recently elected members of the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees

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Arizona State University researchers review national ride hailing data, see imminent changes in city transportation planning.

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Winners of the Utah Ethical Leadership Awards are announced, with winners and finalists in the categories of businesses, governmental agencies and nonprofits.

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Mike Trudell started noticing that there were few if any pickled items available at restaurants. He asked owners why and learned that modern food safety regulations, enacted to prevent foodborne illness, made it hard for owners to offer many pickled products. Trudell was inspired. From that idea, Trudell founded Perfectly Pickled Products (P3), which now sells an array of pickled eggs, meats and vegetables throughout New York state.

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The NIH has awarded the UNC HIV Cure Center and Cell Microsystems a Small Business Innovation and Research contract to develop an automated platform to quantify the latent HIV reservoir, a key step in finding a cure for the virus.

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Aira, a San Diego-based startup, leverages wearable technology, artificial intelligence and live, human agents, to deliver real-time visual description for people who are blind or have low vision.

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Global high-speed connectivity, smart technology infused into every business function, consumers linked and empowered through social media, and Big Data generated by the Internet of Things throughout one’s ecosystem and value chain — these realities will produce high cognitive and emotional demands on humans for the highest and fastest levels of critical and innovative thinking.

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The Sorenson Impact Center and Social Finance today announced Philadelphia Works, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pa. as the awardee of a nationwide Pay for Success (PFS) transaction structuring competition.

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Corporate social responsibility efforts may not always have the brand-building effects that companies want. Research finds a new brand can be viewed as less effective if consumers know the company donates money to good causes – though researchers did find ways for companies to sidestep the problem.

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A ruinous, atmospheric greenhouse gas may soon get a public relations makeover, as Cornell University startup Dimensional Energy has developed a way to add sunlight to carbon dioxide and transform it into an environmentally friendly fuel.

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The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the University of Missouri - Columbia (MU) announced today that R. Keith Slotkin, Ph.D. and Bing Yang, Ph.D., have been appointed to joint faculty positions between the Danforth Center and MU. They are the second and third faculty hired through a collaborative initiative that aims to elevate regional plant science to address global challenges.

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University of California San Diego and Deerfield Management announce today the creation of Poseidon Innovation, LLC to advance disease-curing therapeutics. Through Deerfield’s $65-million commitment in Poseidon, UC San Diego investigators will have the funding and support to weather risky early-stage processes and expedite the drug-development cycle, allowing patients to receive treatment faster.

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A new paper from Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow Dr. Paul Stockton examines how power companies can partner with the Department of Energy to defeat attacks on the U.S. electric system.

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The dramatic rise of income inequality since 1970 has largely been caused by advances in marketing, says a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.“Marketers have become better at creating and exploiting market distortions in legal ways,” said Gerrit De Geest, the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law in the School of Law.

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Companies with a more balanced mix of men and women on their boards are better at protecting the environment and less likely to be sued for environmental law violations, according to new research from the University of Adelaide.

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The initiative combines the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Maker Challenge, an online open-innovation platform through which ‘makers’ and innovators will apply a design-thinking approach to solve specific real-world challenges; and the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Prosperity Award, a prestigious global accolade that recognises and rewards social innovation, and promotes the benefit that manufacturing brings to humanity.

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Three Wichita State University students have invented a wearable biometric tracking tattoo

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University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Jeanne Liedtka’s courses on design thinking have influenced those beyond the classroom setting.

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S&T recently demonstrated a new Federated Command and Control infrastructure that can protect from potential threats using a variety of preventative measures and automated responses.

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The Monell Center and Jefferson (Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University) announce the signing of a one-year Agreement of Cooperation, outlining how the two institutions will collaborate over the next year to develop joint scientific programs and clinical opportunities to advance their shared mission of improving human health.

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UVA Darden Professors Frank Warnock and Veronica Cacdac Warnock bring their financial acumen to bear on one of the most pressing needs in the world — adequate housing.