Digital Scholarship Lab – The Rock Library

Join us for a discussion with Brown alumni from the class of ‘87, Mike Baker, Steve Glenn, Bart Wolman -- who span a variety of industries from sustainability, technology, to big data. In between their careers they found entrepreneurship as a pathway towards disruption and solving problems in their respective sectors. These mostly lifelong entrepreneurs […]

What do you do when you have an idea? In her signature talk based on her bestselling book Her Big Idea, Haley Hoffman Smith '18 confronts our excuses for why not to pursue our big ideas and greater callings, inspiring hopeful entrepreneurs, ideators, and creators to pursue their idea now. In addition to learning from […]

This is a Brown EP organized event. Come support local business leaders, Amy Cary (founder of Amy’s Place on Wickenden), James Mark (founder of North Restaurant), and David Boutros (founder of Bajas on Thayer) to learn about entrepreneurship in the restaurant business! Say you're going on facebook! 

Wonder what it’s like to work for a startup? Join our panelists as they discuss their experiences in both technical and non-technical internship roles and gain insight on finding & applying for an internship at a startup. Panelists: Sophie Starck, Amy Li, Samanee Mahbub, Gabriela Asuncion RSVP on Facebook! 

Beyond Niche: The Power of Community and Demand Yelitsa Jean-Charles '16 RISD, founder of Healthy Roots, never ever had a doll that looked like her growing up. The one time her parents gave her a black doll, she burst into tears because it wasn’t the “pretty one”. Since then, Yelitsa has made it her goal to […]

Spotify’s 2000 employees work in self-organized squads. Patagonia, Zappos, and Morningstar and a growing number of enterprises innovate how they organize work – focused on diverse talent and emerging technology, not job descriptions or org charts. Start-ups and legacy companies alike are reinventing how work happens, organized to maximize purpose, autonomy, creativity and agility. In […]

Register HERE Israel is known as the Startup Nation for its disproportionately high number of young companies and new inventions, from the cherry tomato to Waze. Israeli innovation and entrepreneurship are not only useful for the development of new technologies but also serve as a channel to affect positive societal changes and foster coexistence between […]

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 […]

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, […]