Entrepreneurship

The launch initiates on-the-ground efforts to help scale high-potential enterprises and create jobs.
The cofounder of online jewelry retailer Brilliant Earth explains how she built her business. 
Ian Kazi Shakil, cofounder of Augmedix
The cofounder of health IT company Augmedix believes in building relationships, seizing the moment, and turning big business on its ear.
Jay Alabraba, cofounder of Pagatech
The cofounder of Pagatech learns to balance the cultures of two countries and expand access to financial services.
Pablo Fuentes, cofounder of Proven
The cofounder of a company that helps people find jobs through a smartphone app talks about the pain entrepreneurs must experience if they are to discover their customers’ pain points.
Trae Vassallo, general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and cofounder of Good Technologies
For this venture capitalist, it all comes down to connecting with people – from family to coworkers to customers.
Cofounder of Kiva, Jessica Jackley
The cofounder of a microlending outfit says entrepreneurs need to "wake up each day and say, 'Now what?'"
Medical technology
A physician-turned-administrator at Kaiser Permanente discusses cost-effective innovations that improve care.
Hidehiko Yuzaki, governor of Hiroshima Prefecture
The governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, discusses the value of persistence and humility in entrepreneurship.
Denise Brosseau
The CEO of executive talent agency Well-Connected Leader discusses the value of directness, living on the edge, and knowing when to say 'we' and when to say 'I.'

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The launch initiates on-the-ground efforts to help scale high-potential enterprises and create jobs.
The cofounder of online jewelry retailer Brilliant Earth explains how she built her business. 
Ian Kazi Shakil, cofounder of Augmedix
The cofounder of health IT company Augmedix believes in building relationships, seizing the moment, and turning big business on its ear.
Jay Alabraba, cofounder of Pagatech
The cofounder of Pagatech learns to balance the cultures of two countries and expand access to financial services.
Pablo Fuentes, cofounder of Proven
The cofounder of a company that helps people find jobs through a smartphone app talks about the pain entrepreneurs must experience if they are to discover their customers’ pain points.
Trae Vassallo, general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and cofounder of Good Technologies
For this venture capitalist, it all comes down to connecting with people – from family to coworkers to customers.
Cofounder of Kiva, Jessica Jackley
The cofounder of a microlending outfit says entrepreneurs need to "wake up each day and say, 'Now what?'"
Medical technology
A physician-turned-administrator at Kaiser Permanente discusses cost-effective innovations that improve care.
Hidehiko Yuzaki, governor of Hiroshima Prefecture
The governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, discusses the value of persistence and humility in entrepreneurship.
Denise Brosseau
The CEO of executive talent agency Well-Connected Leader discusses the value of directness, living on the edge, and knowing when to say 'we' and when to say 'I.'

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Airline customers waiting at the airport
Hayagreeva Rao explains why innovation is about more than just new technology.
Harikesh S. Nair
To increase revenue, social networking sites need to give their most active users reason to post more information and make more friends, according to Harikesh Nair of the Graduate School of Business and his co-researchers.
Policy makers need to understand how early-stage companies in their own area work, rather than try to create another Silicon Valley, says Stanford management professor George Foster. He is coauthor of a new report published by the World Economic Forum.
Young companies that adopt structured systems to run their operations in their early years grow three times faster than competitors and have a lower rate of CEO turnover, according to an award-winning research paper.
The United States will see a slow move toward electric car adoption in the next 5-to-10 years while China will see only a small market for cars but big opportunities to manufacture and export batteries. A Stanford MBA student class study doubts either nation will move quickly to adopt clean coal technology.
Why do some geographic areas — such as California’s Silicon Valley — produce so many entrepreneurial companies? The answer may be workplace peers. Working with former entrepreneurs makes individuals more likely to start their own businesses, says Professor Jesper Sørensen of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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