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Innovation Doesn’t Need Money or Infrastructure (Video)

Business — Entrepreneurship – Finance – Marketing – Organizational Behavior – Strategy – Technology & Operations – 2:55

Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons, says that the cost of technical innovation in today's open source world is so low that anyone with a great idea for a product can start building and testing it with little required in the way of start-up money or formal structure...

Companies Looking to Innovate Should Consider How Technologies Are Changing Behavior (Video)

Business — Entrepreneurship – Finance – Strategy – Technology & Operations – 2:25

Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons, and Development, discusses how open mobile platforms and global products are helping us move communication from “content” to “context” in real time.

Adapting Distribution Strategies to Reach Rural Consumers (Video)

Business — Entrepreneurship – Marketing – Strategy – Technology & Operations – 3:42

Multinationals face distribution challenges in rural areas with decentralized populations and inadequate roads. Triveni Supermarkets, an Indian chain that carries many global brands, has developed an innovative solution to reach customers in rural Kerala: a floating supermarket...

The Growth of Entrepreneurship in a Recessionary Climate (Video)

Arts & Sciences — Economics — Business — Entrepreneurship – Finance – Organizational Behavior – 2:08

Joi Ito, a venture capitalist and angel investor, discusses the relationship between innovation and economic depression/recession and highlights how many financially viable businesses today were started during recessionary times.

Enterpreneurial Thinking Applied to the Social Sector (Video)

Business — Entrepreneurship – Finance – Management – Strategy – 8:12

Saras Sarasvathy, Assistant Professor, Darden Business School, discusses her passion for exploring ways in which entrepreneurial innovation can help solve the funding challenge on the social sector side

Rebuilding Business in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Video)

Business — Entrepreneurship – Government – Management – Strategy – 1:59

While Hurricane Katrina closed many businesses for good, others are slowly rebuilding. The owner of a New Orleans muffler shop says he first re-opened without employees or electricity but has now brought the business back to where it was before Katrina...

How (Not) to Pitch a Business Plan to Angel Investors (Video)

Business — Business Communications – Entrepreneurship – Finance – Organizational Behavior – Strategy – 2:30

In this scene from the popular TV comedy “The Office” the would-be-CEO of a start-up company pitches his business plan to the only venture capitalists he can find – the Investment Club at his grandmother’s retirement home...

Independent America: Rising from Ruins (DVD)

Arts & Sciences — Economics – Philosophy — Business — Business Law & Governance – Entrepreneurship – Government – Management – Marketing – Strategy – Sustainability – 1:10:00

Filmmaker Hanson Hosein follows up his documentary Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom and Pop with an exploration of the struggle to rebuild New Orleans in wake of Hurricane Katrina. Three years after the hurricane, many communities still lack basic amenities, despite endless promises from the government...

The Characteristics of Successful Versus Unsuccessful Entrepreneurs (Video)

Business — Entrepreneurship – Organizational Behavior – 4:18

Saras Sarasvathy, Associate Professor at Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, gives advice to anyone trying to become an entrepreneur.

Clay Christensen on the Rise of Healthcare and Fall of Wall Street (Video)

Arts & Sciences — Economics — Business — Entrepreneurship – Finance – Management – Marketing – Strategy – 3:19

Clay Christensen, Professor at Harvard Business School, discusses why healthcare is will grow and Wall Street investment banking will shrink as the economy turns around.