Saturday, August 25, 2007

Best Business Schools for Entrepreneurs

According to Fortune Small Business August Issue the top schools are: Babson College, Harvard, Indiana, MIT, Stanford, Syracuse, Univ. of Arizona, UC Berkeley,UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, Univ. of Penn. Babson has been teaching entrepreneurs for 40 years; Stephen Spinelli, Jr. who founded Jiffy Lube even teaches you how to take over an existing business.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Harvard Professor Mike Porter

A strategist guru for Fortune 500 companies and experienced with the auto industry, Dr. Porter offers his insights into charitable giving at the 2007 Leadership Conference at Willow Creek Church annual symposium outside of Chicago, Illinois. Pitfalls of "doing good" include: lack of goal clarification, conflicting goals, donor passions (especially from NP Boards), no performance measures, and limited attention to costs.