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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 31, Issue 13)Fayetteville State University (FSU) announced Nicholas Perkins has made a $1 million gift to FSU in support of the $25 million Campaign for Fayetteville State University: From a Proud Legacy to a 21st Century...
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From:Management Science (Vol. 58, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Nursing Management (Harrow) (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe NHS is funding a study into nurse entrepreneurs and how they can improve patient choice. The study aims to quantify the extent and types of entrepreneurial activities in which nurses are involved. An...
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From:University Business (Vol. 17, Issue 4)The University of Puget Sound in February became the first higher ed institution to accept a gift of digital currency, when alumnus Nicolas Cary gave the Washington school 14.5 bitcoins--equal to $10,000. For the...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 30, Issue 7)LEADING MARIO MORINO would soon turn 70. For a blue-collar kid from Cleveland, he had done very well for himself. He had made a fortune in the software industry and given a lot of it away--about $40 million, he...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 19, Issue 47)What is claimed to be the world's first domestic windmill, which feeds electricity directly into the household, has been designed by Glasgow entrepreneur David Gordon. Called Plug'n'Save, it is designed for a standard...
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From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCommunication Disrupters: Entrepreneurs Versus Intrapreneurs. Robert McTyre, ST., Spring Arbor University We are in an age of entropy where creative disruption in technology and socioeconomic systems are the norm;...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 191, Issue 682)With the Phoebus Foundation Fernand Huts has created a home for his multifarious collections and provided a model for philanthropy in Flanders. He talks to Apollo about his playful yet strategic approach to acquiring...
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From:Social and Economic Studies (Vol. 66, Issue 43894) Peer-ReviewedMarcus Garvey (1887-1940) should be acknowledged as a pioneer of social entrepreneurship because he developed mission-driven businesses: social enterprises long before the concept was even named. Garvey tied racial...
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From:Organization Science (Vol. 28, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. Entrepreneurs in many emerging economies start their firms informally, without registering with the state. We examine how informality at the time of founding affected the performance of 12,146 firms in 18...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 59, Issue 31)Byline: Jeffrey R. Young Many of the boldest experiments in higher education these days are led by a relatively new kind of business leader: the social entrepreneur. The founders of Coursera proudly claim the...
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From:Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper studies the role of entrepreneurs in investment tie formation in science-based entrepreneurial firms. Specifically, we address why investment tie formation is path dependent for some firms but more amenable...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 24, Issue 04)Byline: Cody Switzer When Mark Zuckerberg, the 27-year-old co-founder of Facebook, announced last year that he was giving $100-million to set up a foundation to help Newark, N.J., public schools, he became one of the...
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From:TD Magazine (Vol. 71, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen you were a kid, you may have been asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Most likely, you had no idea, so you responded with professions such as firefighter, baseball player, nurse, teacher, doctor,...
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From:The Futurist (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI arrive at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco fresh off a flight from Washington, D.C., where I'll have just enough time to hang out with Gina Bianchini at the Bloomberg Technology Conference before she herself needs...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJOE RICKETTS DOESN'T THINK SMALL. Ricketts helped revolutionize online stock market trading by creating TD Ameritrade. More recently, he has been using his money to torment President Barack Obama and--with family...
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From:Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues for the emotional embeddedness of the entrepreneurial act as a moderator of its social embeddedness. Building on the theoretical grounds of the sociology of emotions, we propose the study of...
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From:Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBuilding on the entrepreneurial action and sustainable development literatures, we highlight how the current explanations of opportunity recognition, based on entrepreneurial knowledge and economic motivation, are...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWhile older entrepreneurs are more likely to be male, white, and have higher levels of human, social, and financial capital, we know less about interest in later-life entrepreneurship. This study estimates...
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From:Nature (Vol. 563, Issue 7732) Peer-ReviewedMicrosoft co-founder who established the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Microsoft co-founder who established the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Author(s): Christof Koch Author Affiliations: Paul G....