Teresa Amabile is a Baker Foundation Professor and Director of Research at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Dr. Amabile received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her research investigates how life inside organizations can influence people and their performance. Originally focusing on individual creativity, Dr. Amabile's research expanded to […]

For dramatic growth, do Strategy Innovation first, then do the strategic planning! https://www.strategyinnovationgroup.com/get-started We were pioneers of Strategy Innovation in the mid-80’s and then wrote the book on it in 2003 (which we updated in 2013). Over time, we observed, and later, participated in the emergence of Enterprise Innovation. Then, a decade ago, we began […]

Join us for a special Founder Fridays featuring our B-Lab Alum! Brown University’s Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab) is an intensive 8-week accelerator program designed to support student entrepreneurs developing high-impact ventures. Each participating team receives access to custom mentoring, a peer cohort of dedicated founders, co-working space, and a summer stipend. For teams that require it, […]

Learn how the brain’s default programming gets in the way of your success and how to hack it so that you can play a bigger game in business and life. After 15 years working in the field of psychotherapy, Steve McCready (’92, American Civilization) now helps people make a bigger impact with their business by […]

How did two Brown alum co-founders reinvent an industry around sleep? Join the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and co-founders Neil Parikh '11 and Luke Sherwin '12 of Casper, a mattress company that found an unmet need in a $14 billion industry, ready for disruption. Neil who attended one year of medical school and whose father […]

Join the Food Studies at Brown Speaker Series, featuring Sean Sherman, founder/CEO of the company The Sioux Chef. He will describe his decade-long entrepreneurial endeavor, to revive precontact Indigenous cuisine, create a Native foods restaurant and food truck, and publish his first cookbook, all while training the next generation of Native chefs. Sean will be […]

Are you thinking about starting a venture or currently running a startup? Join us and Howard Anderson, who has been on the Senior Faculty at MIT Sloan and the Harvard Business School and founder of the Yankee Group and Battery Ventures, for a workshop that provides guidance when a young company gets into trouble. For […]

After Howard's lecture on "Trouble's Ahead", sign up for his office hours to talk about entrepreneurship, growing your company, or ideation. Sign up for a slot here!

Come talk trash with Brown EP as we invite some of the most interesting startups in the garbage business to discuss their entrepreneurial experiences. Learn how these companies take our waste and turn it into something good. Our panelists will share their experiences as sustainable entrepreneurs and discuss the ongoing waste crisis of today.  Join […]

Join us for our Founder Friday's series featuring Charlie Kroll '01, who started his entrepreneurial journey right in his dorm room at Brown University. After graduating in 2001 with a concentration in Economics, and with the help of mentors like Barrett Hazeltine and Stephen Siegel ScM '83, PhD '85, Charlie started Andera, a venture-backed tech […]

Join current VFA Fellows to learn about working at a startup and life as a VFA Fellow! Panelists will provide an overview of the fellowship, their personal experiences, and answer questions. REGISTER HERE. Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates interested in entrepreneurship and working in a fast-paced, innovative startup […]

Join the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and the Lady Project for a panel and discussion featuring women of color who are shifting, innovating, and positively disrupting the dynamics of entrepreneurship, leadership, and politics in Providence, RI. Nearly 8 out of every 10 new women-owned firms launched over the past nine years have been […]

Join the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Innovation Providence and our Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship for a discussion on how entrepreneurs and forward thinkers are leading the way to a new Rhode Island. Moderated by Inc. contributor and Shorty Award Winner Jeff Barrett, the conversation will feature entrepreneurs and educators who contribute to the thriving business ecosystem […]

What if you applied a 2500-year-old philosophy of Aristotle’s Classic Virtues to 21st Century business and entrepreneurship? You’re at a Liberal Arts school - you should! What does courage mean in running a business? How do you know when to go for it or pivot or stop? Can you really love your customers? What would […]

Meet Megan Golden '87, co-founder of Mission: Cure, which uses outcome-based financing and impact investing to demonstrate a new model for curing disease, beginning with chronic pancreatitis, a devastating disease afflicting her younger brother, class of '90. Megan is a leader in innovative, outcome-based financing to solve social problems in the U.S. Until March 2017, […]

Celebrate the Fall 2017 Cohort! The Innovation Dojo is a semester-long student-led initiative designed to challenge underclassmen at Brown and RISD to think differently about innovation and entrepreneurship. Learn more at http://brownentrepreneurship.com/dojo/. Powered By The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship

Interested in learning more about startups?  From January 21 - 23, travel to New York City with thirty fellow Brown and RISD students to visit the greatest startup ecosystem on the East Coast. Engage one-on-one with leading innovators, inventors, and investors and tour the headquarters of renowned firms such as Ellevest, MongoDB, and BuzzFeed. Explore the entrepreneurial community home […]