Language of Business Podcast: A-rated Team vs. B-rated Idea The Language of Business looks at why investors prefer a B-rated idea pitched by an A-rated team over an A-rated idea pitched by a B-rated team. Finding your team and measuring their success. Plus, ways to motivate your employees from C-level to staff. Click on this… Continue reading Language of Business Podcast: A-rated Team vs. B-rated Idea
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Latest Case Study: Island Creek Oysters
Latest Case Study: Island Creek Oysters Many thanks to Chris Sherman for hosting us today in Duxbury from Island Creek Oysters. One of my graduate assistants, BU Questrom MBA student Sara duPont established this contact a few months prior. We did a phone interview and today followed it up with a site visit. We’re hoping to… Continue reading Latest Case Study: Island Creek Oysters
Language of Business Podcast: Business Planning
Language of Business Podcast: Business Planning Are you starting a new business? Where do you begin? Tony Solomons explores the need for a 50-page written Business Plan, Jeff Hulton of Sporting Photo Art offers his opinion and Cindy Brown closes on back-of-the-napkin planning. Click on this link here to subscribe for Blubrry! Also check out our first few episodes,… Continue reading Language of Business Podcast: Business Planning
Language of Business Podcast: 48-in-48
Language of Business Podcast: 48-in-48 A nonprofit that makes websites for other, local nonprofits. And they make a lot of them. They started in Atlanta and came to Boston this year. The full 18-minute episode is featured, with co-founder / sponsor Adam Walker, 48-in-48 Executive Director Carole Williams, and United Way Senior Vice President for Community… Continue reading Language of Business Podcast: 48-in-48
Language of Business Podcast: Fashion for the Boss Lady (and more!)
Language of Business Podcast: Fashion for the Boss Lady (and more!) Fashion for the Boss Lady and you don’t have to buy it. How Investment Ethics come into play with non-profit investors. Discussing business with Boston’s Oldest Distillery. The full 20-minute episode is featured, with separate segments on Ambika Singh, Darby Hobbs, and Scott Allen.… Continue reading Language of Business Podcast: Fashion for the Boss Lady (and more!)
BU MBAs on winning Deloitte Recruiting Case Competition team!
BU MBAs on winning Deloitte Recruiting Case Competition team! Congrats to MBA’s Lauren Evans (1st year MBA / MSDi) and Rashi Jaiswal (1st year MBA)! They were on the winning team for today’s Deloitte Recruiting Case Competition. This was a multi-stage, joint competition among Harvard’s Kennedy School, BU, and BC. BU MBAs were *not* on all of the 11… Continue reading BU MBAs on winning Deloitte Recruiting Case Competition team!
BU MBA VCIC Local Underway
BU MBA VCIC Local Underway Largest number of MBAs ever… competing to make VCIC regional team. Huge thank you to our entrepreneurs, judges and volunteers. Check out the pics below.
Language of Business Podcast: Doing Business in China
Language of Business Podcast: Doing Business in China When you’re searching for a job after graduation overseas, do you look there, or go back home to China? How does asset valuation in China differ from the US? As a consultant, how is business development different? Investing in the US versus investing in China? What do… Continue reading Language of Business Podcast: Doing Business in China
Language of Business Podcast: Art and Business
Language of Business Podcast: Art and Business An Emmy winning graphic designer decides to become an artist. Which wins… passion or income? If you’re an artist making money, who handles the paperwork? When cake making becomes an art form. A gallery that sells art but gives 50% to charity. Art and Business. Featuring Eliane Markoff, James Grace, Joanne… Continue reading Language of Business Podcast: Art and Business
Language of Business Podcast: Medical Devices
Language of Business Podcast: Medical Devices How does a knee replacement part really work and who makes it? Growing a body part from your own body. It’s called regenerative medicine. The business of medical devices: Not making them but also buying and selling them. How doctors can check your cardiac rhythms and additionally put them… Continue reading Language of Business Podcast: Medical Devices