Founderful: ‘Ideas are a commodity. Execution is everything.’

Think local, act local

7 September 2023 • by Sophie Bacq, G. T. Lumpkin in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

Civic wealth can be created through entrepreneurship, bringing together a variety of stakeholders and getting buy-in from communities....

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In trying times, Latin American enterprises are working to fill gaps

1 September 2023 • by Vanina Farber in Entrepreneurship • 6 min read

It is my belief that many business innovations that will benefit society going forward will come from the Global South — especially from Latin America. We in the Global North can learn...

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How a French entrepreneur scaled an insurmountable problem

29 August 2023 • by Julia Binder in Entrepreneurship • 4 min read • Podcast available

French entrepreneur and mountain guide Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy explains to Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation Julia Binder how she made a profitable business model – climbing Mount Everest – more sustainable...

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Building a company from scratch out of the most unlikely place

27 June 2023 • by Mate Rimac in Entrepreneurship • 8 min read

Mate Rimac founded an electric supercar company in Croatia – a country with no automotive industry or start-up culture – when he was still a teenager, and against all odds, grew it...

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Five lessons from my life as a sustainable entrepreneur 

5 May 2023 • by David Ramirez in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

A fragile foundational partnership and the misalignment of your workforce can be the Achilles’ heel of a start-up ...

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The anatomy of a merger: ensuring the long-term future of a family firm

17 January 2023 • by Peter Vogel in Entrepreneurship • 7 min read

To sell, merge, list or delist is a difficult decision that many business-owning families face at some point. Peter Vogel reflects on just such a turning point in the history of Firmenich,...

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I failed but emerged stronger from the experience  

21 November 2022 • by Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm in Entrepreneurship • 7 min read

Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm's dreams of glory were crushed in a David and Goliath battle with Mark Zuckerberg, but he firmly believes that failure can be a springboard to success if managed well ...

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Growth at all costs. Not so fast! There are alternative playbooks 

11 November 2022 • by Jim Pulcrano in Entrepreneurship • 8 min read

For the past 20 years, ‘growth at all costs’ has been the dominant Silicon Valley mantra, with companies foregoing profitability to scale fast and dominate the market. Yet, in a time of...

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There is life and purpose after the corporate world

2 September 2022 in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

From a successful corporate career in the oil and gas industry to one as an entrepreneurial impact investor, alumni Chris Edwards, EMBA 2020, made a hard pivot mid-career and has not looked...

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Prepare to pivot: four lessons learned from building a startup

30 August 2022 • by Yulia Voloshchuk in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

One of the co-founders of sustainable energy startup IntellSol discusses the importance of viewing your original idea as a first draft that will evolve as you gain more knowledge of the market...

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