»February 20, 2008: Innovation in Recruiting: VIsualCV
Are you ready to take ownership of your professional web identity? A veteran of web services and a seasoned recruiting executive have teamed up to launch VisualCV, Inc. Their gorgeous multimedia web document resuscitates the resume, allowing you to post a professional resume, CV, or bio for public distribution or even application for employment. With a VisualCV, you can attach videos, image fil... ... (MORE)
»January 5, 2008: Beyond green
When a hotel executive asked me recently what I would do to communicate the hotel’s sustainability initiatives to current and future customers, I proposed that the hotel explicitly abandon trying to advertise and promote its actual green activities to focus more on the emotional goodwill of sustainability through story telling and interactive disp... ... (MORE)
»October 18, 2007: Innovation in Services: Miriam's Kitchen
The value creators in our new economy are providing exceptional experiences by outperforming their niche in an industry network or tying together the nodes of the network and packaging the whole thing in innovative ways. As part of my recent course at Darden on Innovation and Integration in Services - The New Economy, I made observations on a number of innovations as examples of value creation... ... (MORE)
»October 9, 2007: Innovation in Services: Zillow for Real Estate
The global economy continues to undergo seismic shifts. Previous vertically integrated industries became segmented by horizontal service providers, then disjointed as loosely connected networks of service providers. The value creators in the new economy are providing exceptional experiences by outperforming their niche in the network or tying together the nodes of the network and packaging the ... ... (MORE)
»May 30, 2007: Microfinance in Africa: Profile of Five Talents International
Microfinance, venture philanthropy, and social entrepreneurship have been generating good buzz for several years now, and I ve learned a fair amount about the topics in the halls of Darden. But it wasn t until last week that I actually heard eyewitness accounts of the successes of a microlending organization and connected real stories and pictures with small business loans, business training, ... ... (MORE)
»May 1, 2007: Darden student videos
It s a first in business school world - which means this is really innovative or really dumb, and I m sure an audience poll will reveal a widely polarized opinion. Nonetheless, students at Darden are producing homemade marketing videos on YouTube promoting the school from our own perspective. I d really like to see these merged with the "Learning Team Linebacker" skit (that s right,... ... (MORE)
»April 10, 2007: Ventures and entrepreneurship: coast to coast - Part 2
Washington DC is a great city if you like a number of things: free museums, great public transportation, the federal government, perpetually losing sports franchises, and - surprise! - entrepreneurial ventures. While DC sometimes gets a bum rap for bureaucracy due to the inescapable presence of Uncle Sam, it turns out that the greater DC area has a strong and somewhat intimate venture communit... ... (MORE)
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»January 13, 2007: Ventures and entrepreneurship: coast to coast - Part 1
There are a few hubs of venture capital and entrepreneurship in the world, but Silicon Valley is the undisputed king of them all. So, after dutifully finishing my Quarter 2 exams, I boarded a plane straight to San Francisco to check it out. Two other Darden students and I organized a trip for nearly 30 Darden students on a corporate and venture tour of Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Jose, and ... ... (MORE)
»October 27, 2006: Structuring innovation for success
Darden hosted a brilliantly funny man named Larry Keeley for a small forum on corporate innovation this week in what was one of my favorite Darden experiences thus far. We let Larry know up front that his ability to draw a crowd was admirable since it was a) the start of a three day weekend for Darden students, b) at the same time as a presentation by Steve Reinemund, the CEO of Pepsi, AND c) ... ... (MORE)
»October 12, 2006: Developments in wind and solar
THe high-tech energy sector (which some would say is redundant) is really fascinating. Nowhere else do I find such a tremendous confluence of global politics, high technology, excellent business, and the opportunity to introduce value to the entire world. This same ethos has been exhibited by several energy companies visiting Darden recently, including Chevron, DuPont, and Intrinergy.Two rene... ... (MORE)
