Prendismo: Recently Added

Alison Gerlach - Interview - Entrepreneurship and Building a Business

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST

Alison Gerlach is a successful entrepreneur and business executive with expertise in and passion for building businesses. After doing extensive research in optimizing the business start-up process, Gerlach went on to build businesses in industries including technology, entertainment services, consumer packaged goods, and professional services. Prior to her entrepreneurial endeavors, she was a strategic management consultant and an overseas investment banker.

In addition to building and growing her current venture, "Allie's Edibles", Gerlach spends a great deal of her time teaching, consulting to both start-up and large corporations, and giving lectures to both business and academic audiences on optimizing the business start-up process.

Alison Gerlach earned a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Robert Frank - Interview - The Darwin Economy

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST

Robert H. Frank is Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management at Cornell University's Johnson School.

Frank is a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times. Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board, fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Professor of American Civilization at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Frank's books include The Darwin Economy, Choosing the Right Pond, Passions within Reason, Microeconomics and Behavior, Luxury Fever, and What Price the Moral High Ground? The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the ten best books for 1995.

During this interview, Frank discusses concepts from his new book 'The Darwin Economy,' in which he suggests that in economic battles, individual interests prevail to the detriment of the group.

Bob Frank holds a BS in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MA in statistics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in economics, also from UC Berkeley.

Mark Tatum - Interview - National Basketbal Association

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST

Mark Tatum began his professional career at Procter & Gamble where he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive.

While working on his MBA at Harvard, he met many people working in the sports industry and took a summer internship doing sports marketing for Pepsi-Cola. After completing his MBA, Mark worked for Major League Baseball in their Corporate Sponsorship and Marketing Department.

In 1999, he joined the NBA where he is currently Senior Director and Group Manager of Marketing Partnerships for the NBA. His responsibilities include overseeing the development of marketing programs for the NBA, USA Basketball and the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Mark Tatum received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his MBA from Harvard University.

Savneet Singh - Interview - Gold Bullion International

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST

Savneet Singh is the Founder of Gold Bullion International (GBI), a leading physical precious metals trading and management firm. GBI has created the first truly integrated solution that allows investors to order physical precious metals in the same manner as ordering a stock or bond. Currently the company has storage locations in New York, Utah, London, Hong Kong and Zurich. In founding GBI, Mr. Singh has been successful in recruiting a well known management team in addition to a Board that includes General Wesley Clark, Former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt.

Prior to GBI, Mr. Singh was an investment analyst at Chilton Investment Company where he covered investments in the technology, alternative energy and infrastructure space.

Prior to Chilton, Mr. Singh worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley, where he worked on large financial sponsor and strategic company mergers and acquisitions.

Savneet Singh received his B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

Dennis Derryck - Lecture - Corbin Hill Farm and Public Engagement

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST

Dennis Derryck is a Professor of Professional Practice, Management at the New School for Public Engagement.

Dennis Derryck's primary area of interest is on innovative policies and strategies impacting on the economic sustainability of nonprofit organizations. His background includes holding leadership positions in organizations involved in community economic development; operations and fiscal management and research and policy analysis. His leadership in organizing the Community Development Practicum with the New School: Parsons School of Architecture, Design and Lighting is one model of bridging themes with other schools within the University.

He currently serves as Chair of WE ACT for Environmental Justice and is Vice Chair of SoBro.

Greg Van Kirk - Interview - Social Entrepreneur Corps

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST

Greg Van Kirk is an Ashoka Lemelson Fellow and the-co founder of The New Development Solutions Group. This includes Community Enterprise Solutions, Social Entrepreneur Corps and NDS Consulting. These are all ventures whose mission is to design and implement innovative responses to long-standing development challenges.

Greg also works part time as "Social Entrepreneur in Residence" at NYU. He and his team are now focused on expanding the reach of their innovative "MicroConsignment Model" globally.

Greg began working in rural small business development as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2001. He has served as an economic development consultant for organizations such as USAID, Chemonics, Columbia University, Vision Spring, Soros Foundation, Church World Service, OneRoof, Fundacion Solar, Fundacion Paraguaya, IDB and Water4People. He has completed successful consulting engagements in Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Senegal, The Gambia, South Africa, Paraguay, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

Greg worked in investment banking for five years before arriving in Guatemala. Two deals he led at UBS during this time won "Deal of the Year" honors from "Structured Finance International" magazine.

Greg is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio).

Jack Little - Interview - Cornell University

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST

John E. Little is a Senior Lecturer of Accounting at Cornell University's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Jack has taught accounting for nearly 30 year at both the Community College and University level. He received his Undergraduate degree in Accounting from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, his Master's degree in Business and Public Policy from SUNY's Empire State College and is a licensed New York State Certified Public Accountant.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Jack coordinates the accounting program within Dyson, counseling students on academic, career and professional licensing matters. He is a longstanding member of the School's Undergraduate Studies Committee and a more recent member of the College's Academic Petitions Committee. At the end of the 2010-11 academic year Jack was awarded the Donald C. Burdett Distinguished Advisor Award.

He is a former partner of the professional service firm of Ciaschi, Dietershagen, Little and Mickelson, LLP in Ithaca, New York, where he practiced for over 25 years. He served as managing partner and led the firm's Governmental and Not-for-Profit practice. His clients have included dozens of governmental units as well as local public authorities.

Jack remains active professionally currently providing accounting and management advisory consulting services to a limited number of businesses, local governments and not-for-profit organizations.

Jack resides in Ithaca with his wife, Amy, and two daughters, Johanna and Halee. He is a member of the Tompkins County Workforce Investment Board, where he has served as President of the board as well as a member of the Executive Committee. In his free time, he is an avid outdoorsman, hunter and animal enthusiast. Each year the family raises, tags and releases over 1,000 monarch butterflies as they begin their migration to central Mexico.

Josh Tetrick - Interview - 33needs

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST

Josh Tetrick, a social entrepreneur, writer, and speaker, has led a United Nations business initiative in Kenya, worked for both former President Clinton and the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and taught street children as a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria and South Africa.

After earning defensive rookie of the year as a linebacker with West Virginia University, Tetrick applied his energy on the field to solving big problems off the field. Whether mobilizing the UN Global Compact in Kenya, leading a sustainable supply-chain initiative with Citigroup or leading the development of McGuireWoods LLP's global climate change strategy, Tetrick is committed to finding fresh solutions to old problems. Most recently, he led the reform of Liberia's investment laws while working in the office of the President of Liberia.

Presently he is the founder and CEO of 33needs, an investment platform that connects social entrepreneurs to crowd-sourced investment capital.

Josh Tetrick, a Fulbright Scholar, is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Cornell University.

Josh Tetrick - Lecture - 33needs

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST

Presently he is the founder and CEO of 33needs, an investment platform that connects social entrepreneurs to crowd-sourced investment capital.

Josh Tetrick, a Fulbright Scholar, is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Cornell University.

Gururaj Deshpande - Lecture - Combining Innovation and Social Relevance

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST

Gururaj Deshpande is an Indian American businessman and social entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA based internet company Sycamore Networks in 1998 and the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. He is also founder of the Deshpande Foundation.

He started his career working at Codex Corporation, a Motorola subsidiary in Ontario, Canada which manufacturers modems, before moving to the U.S. in 1984. Later he co-founded Coral Networks, a router developer, in 1987, he sold the company, two years later for $15 million.

In 1990, Deshpande co-founded Cascade Communications, whose products were very important in the early internet, initially serving as its president and later Executive Vice President, he hired Dan Smith as CEO. He sold Cascade to Ascend Communications for $3.7 billion in 1997. Subsequently, with help of MIT researchers, he launched Sycamore Networks in 1998. Sycamore Networks went public in October 1999, and soon raised a market cap of $18 billion, and his 21% shareholding, briefly made him, one of the richest Indians in the world, and in 2000, he featured on the Forbes 400 listing of Richest Americans.

In 2000, he founded Networking and Telecom equipment products company, Tejas Networks, along with US-based ASG-Omni in Bangalore.

In July 2010, he was appointed as the Co-Chairman of National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a group set up to support US President's innovation strategy.