Description: Tired of charity appeals? Here’s why Britain’s best-ever social media fundraising campaign could render them obsolete.
Source: SmartPlanet.com
Date: Mar 21, 2014
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Description: Northwestern’s football players won the right to form a union. This could be a watershed moment for labor and college sports.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Mar 27, 2014
Link: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/27/northwestern-football-union/?iid=SF_F_River
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Description: In 2006 an innovation was unleashed on the teeming, college-basketball-hungry masses that promised to unshackle us from the fear of watching NCAA March Madness tournament games at work. The Boss Button allowed basketball fans at work to switch between the live stream of a game and a phony financial statement or innocuous spreadsheet.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Mar 27, 2014
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Description: Worksman Cycles has been making industrial tricycles and consumer bicycles for more than 100 years in New York City.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Mar 21, 2014
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Description: Trip Hawkins, founder and former Chairman and CEO at Electronic Arts, discusses the path to success for entrepreneurs and the perseverance it takes to find the next big thing on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.”
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: Mar 21, 2014
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Description: In an era saturated with Silicon Valley startups and social entrepreneurs, a familiar maverick is using technology to erase his digital footprint.
Source: BNN.ca – video report
Date: Mar 21, 2014
Link: http://www.bnn.ca/News/2014/3/21/The-Cuban-way-One-on-one-with-billionaire-Mark-Cuban-.aspx
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Description: Alex Stone and his wife, Marissa McDaniel, both work full time. They have two dogs that they miss during the day, and often have trouble getting home to feed them. “Pets are like children and need to be on a schedule,” Mr. Stone said.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Mar 19, 2014
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Description: First, Starbucks (SBUX) wanted you in its cafes for lunch and the afternoon, so it spruced up its food offerings and started serving cold “Refreshers” and testing sodas. Now it wants you there in the evening, too, and it’s bringing out the booze.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Mar 20, 2014
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Description: In the five years since Nortel went bankrupt, many possible explanations have been suggested for its demise. Poor strategy, weak finances, low-cost competition from China, a misguided board of directors, hubris, the federal government’s refusal to backstop it during the recession, you name it.
Source: FinancialPost.com
Date: Mar 17, 2014
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Description: Reggae legend Bob Marley’s son Rohan co-founded Marley Coffee, a brand dedicated to sustainable farming and social entrepreneurship.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Mar 14, 2014
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