Management & Entrepreneurship
Baylor Entrepreneurs Receive Grant to Bring Renewable Energy to Rural Poor in Honduras[11/20/2009]
Entrepreneurs from Baylor's Hankamer School of Business and School of Engineering and Computer Science won a $200,000 grant in September 2009 that will accelerate their work bringing electricity to rural villages in the developing world. This initiative contributes to a larger body of work being done at Baylor with the intent to combat global poverty through technology, business, and Christian mission.
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This Month in the Life of Benjamin Franklin - Early November (Audio)
[11/12/2009]
Before he became a patriot and founding father, Benjamin Franklin was a businessman. In this audio series "This Month in the Life of Benjamin Franklin," Dr. Blaine McCormick takes a closer look at Benjamin Franklin's business years offering insight and motivation for today's business leaders.
In this segment for early November, McCormick the true origins of the aphorism, "A penny saved is a penny earned." McCormick also discusses Franklin's participation in a group focused on mutual self-improvement as well as his contributions to the National Library Association.
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Market Street Earns High Marks on The Dallas Morning News` `Top 100 Places to Work in DFW` List (In the News)
[11/11/2009]
Reuters notes Market Street's parent company, United Supermarkets, won the 2009 Texas Large Family Business of the Year Award from the Institute for Family Business at Baylor. -- With six grocery stores serving the Dallas-Fort Worth-area, Market Street was named one of the area`s "Top 100 Places to Work" by The Dallas Morning News. Market Street was No. 41 overall and 13th-best among the 32 companies recognized in the Large Business Division.
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Baylor Angel Network
[11/6/2009]
Angels have descended on the Hankamer School of Business-angel investors that is, in the form of a new organization called the Baylor Angel Network (BAN).
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Baylor Business Fellows
[11/6/2009]
He is a premed student in the Honors Program with second majors in Finance and Economics and minors in Biology and Biochemistry. As if that isn't enough to keep him busy, he serves as the vice president of the Baylor Medical Service Organization and Response Team, and is a member of the Future Healthcare Executives graduate organization. He has already completed an internship with M.D. Anderson in Houston, and will be studying in Madrid, Spain, for the fall 2009 semester.
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Business Innovation: Beyond Boundaries
[11/6/2009]
The phrase "business innovation" conjures specific types of images for those of us past a certain age. We imagine The Coca-Cola Company's secret recipe locked away in a vault, Google's mind-boggling search algorithms scribbled on a white board or brilliant IBM and P&G scientists tinkering in their research & development (R&D) lairs. Those of us past a certain age need to look again.
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Entrepreneurship Living & Learning Center
[11/6/2009]
How do you teach innovation? How do you inspire and motivate others to be creative? The Baylor Entrepreneurship Program enhanced its efforts by creating an exciting new learning opportunity for students with the Entrepreneurship Living -Learning Center (ENT-LLC) on campus.
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Ethics of Advancing University Innovation
[11/6/2009]
When scientists at the University of Florida formulated Gatorade in 1965, it wasn't as part of an ongoing research study or even a classroom experiment. It was the result of a desperate cry from an assistant football coach to a doctor in one of the school's medical colleges. He wanted to see his Gator football team win games. Researchers did not set out on a commercial venture, yet their creation is now synonymous with every sport from Little League to the Olympics. And, it's netted the University of Florida more than $150 million in royalties.
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Hankamer School of Business: History in the Making
[11/6/2009]
Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business continues the celebration of its 50th anniversary of maintaining international accreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). AACSB accreditation represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide.
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Leadership Perspective: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
[11/6/2009]
Technology veteran Godfrey R. Sullivan is president and CEO of Splunk, an innovative Silicon Valley company that has created large-scale, real-time indexing and search technology that companies use to manage, secure, and audit complex IT infrastructures.
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