An Easter 2021 basket full of random updates: Trish Cotter Moves On: After over 5 years of complete dedication to the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Executive Director Trish Cotter has decided to transition out to find her next challenge. Trish’s spectacular contributions in running delta v, operations, ...
Over the past 12 months, I have had the chance to do more reading. Among all the titles I’ve flipped through, there have been two great books on unrelated topics that are actually about entrepreneurship. This is not uncommon as some of the best insights we get come from ...
For all of us, 2020 was a year unlike any other by a lot. I kept quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” The challenges came from all sides–students, faculty, staff, community–and in all ways: health, operational disruptions, financial, economic injustice, racial injustice, mental fatigue, ...
On September 12, 2019, Martin Trust passed away peacefully in Boston, Massachusetts. While not a surprise, this was still sad in so many ways, but, as he would wish, there was a positive side to this news. In the big picture, you could not ask for any more from 85 ...
In my 20-plus years as an entrepreneur and seven years as an entrepreneurship educator, I have explored whether starting successful companies should be thought of as a science or an art. If entrepreneurship is a science, then I could easily teach my students that if they perform actions X and ...
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