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Why Collaboration with Startups is the Future
Spending Money, Saving Lives
More From Less — Cleantech’s New Wave
Reforming U.S. Regulation to Achieve Better Science
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Shale Boom Built on ‘Junk’
Although share prices for most U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies are at all-time highs, the elephant in the room is an industry financed by the high-yield debt market, better known as “junk bonds.” The S&P says that 75 of the 97 energy E&P companies it rates are below investment grade.
Bringing Hands-On Entrepreneurship Education to High School Students
Bringing Hands-On Entrepreneurship Education to High School Students
“Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Involve me, I’ll understand”. This is a famous Chinese proverb that describes how human learns. Most of us would agree that the greatest learning is mostly achieved through real life practice. Reading, sitting in a classroom workshop, and watching someone do it is not enough without actually practicing what we heard or learned.
Enabling Startups to Innovate Globally
Kavita Shukla thinks so. Through her company, Maryland-based Fenugreen, she has exported Freshpaper—a product that prevents food waste by keeping produce fresh for up to four times longer—to dozens of countries around the world. On their own accord, Fenugreen evangelists have taken her innovation everywhere from Haiti to Malawi.
Curiosity Didn’t Kill The Cat, It Created The Mousetrap
“Everybody is curious,” declares Dr. Henry Weisinger, author of the bestseller Nobody’s Perfect. “It’s an instinct that is hard-wired. To explore or investigate our environment is life-enhancing. Organizations interested in what their people are doing, are more resonant. On an individual and organizational basis, people need to ask themselves, when was the last time they did something to spark their interest?”