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, […]
SPEAKER Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D. Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown University Associate Professor of Management, UMass Boston Paolo Gaudiano, Ph.D. Executive Director, Center for the Quantitative Studies of Diversity and Inclusion City College of New York Founder & CEO, Aleria, a SaaS platform company that enables organizations to plan, execute and measure the impact of D&I initiatives. […]
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 $4,000 summer stipend. During this panel, learn about the program and meet the founders of B-Lab alumni ventures, […]
Join us for our first Founder Fridays of the semester with Cliff Weitzman '16, a former Peer Entrepreneur In Residence at the Nelson Center, and now the founder of Speechify (https://getspeechify.com). Speechify is used in thousands of schools around the world by auditory learners who prefer to scan a book with their phone and listen, […]
Marina Hatsopoulos '87 is an entrepreneur, angel investor and a transformational leader in the 3D Printing world. Before her entrepreneurial career started, she studied music and math at Brown and graduated magna cum laude. She then went on to receive her master's in mechanical engineering at MIT. In 1994 she became the founding CEO and […]
Entrepreneurship has been an essential skill set throughout Anne Marie Darling's career. Anne Marie earned an engineering degree from Brown University in 1993 and later an MBA from New York University’s Stern A School of Business in 2000. She then went on to work at the American Stock Exchange managing the research team. While in […]
Off-Centered Ales for Off-Centered People Ever since the summer of 1995, Mariah Calagione '93 and her husband Sam Calagione have been brewing, cooking, selling and talking everything beer. Fast forward 22 years later they have built a multimillion dollar company and one of the fastest-growing, independent craft breweries in the United States - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Off-Centered Ales for Off-Centered People. Join […]
Funding the Future Series As an attorney, business advisor, and angel investor, Lorine Pendleton ‘91 is committed to helping underserved entrepreneurs and venture capitalists while also addressing gender and cultural blindspots within these industries. If women and underserved entrepreneurs were given the same opportunities for venture capital as men, it would generate over $1 trillion […]
