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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. with many more states pending legislation.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Calxeda’s business purpose is to remove barriers to innovation by supplying super-efficient technologies that deliver the performance businesses and institutions need, with an order of magnitude improvement in energy and space efficiency.

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10 Easy Ways To Create A Healthy Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Randolph Barker, professor of management in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business has studied dogs in the workplace, and found that bringing them to work resulted in a measurable decline in stress among workers over the course of a day. Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, is a workplace strategy expert and researcher.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. “Len Green, an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and business professor, shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business. ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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20 Essential TED Talks For Entrepreneurial Students

YoungUpstarts

Students with entrepreneurial inclinations should find inspiration in Majora Carter’s fascinating tales of some impressively enterprising individuals from Chicago, Los Angeles and Whitesville, West Virginia. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Principal Investigator: Mool Gupta University of Virginia. SwiftVax – A Green Manufacturing Platform for Faster, Cheaper, and Scalable Vaccine Manufacturing. Principal Investigator: Ellis Meng University of Southern California. TexCone – Laser-Generated Surface Textures for Anti-Icing and Sun-Light-Trapping Applications.

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Can Business Save The Earth?

YoungUpstarts

” and Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Each of these players influence the degree to which businesses invest in and develop sustainable technologies.

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