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How a female commercial engineer in Paraguay is overcoming barriers

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

What is your background and what inspired you to pursue your work now? I’m a commercial engineer, with more than 10 years of experience in the financial sector, I have an MBA and I was trained in social innovation. What are some of the challenges you have faced? My parents inspired me to pursue a business career.

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The End of the Mexican Road

Both Sides of the Table

And negotiation technique is one of the few areas on my MBA that was truly new information to me by the time I had attended. I learned concepts such as BATNA (Best alternative to a negotiated agreement, which every MBA will remember). We like to short-hand it, as in, “What’s our BATNA?” Getting to Yes.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

You can watch the video here or … As always we have notes: graciously provided by Daniel Wolchonok , the founder of RentMaps whose request of me for typing up the notes was to come and speak at Yale where he’ll be getting his MBA starting this fall so I’ve agreed to it. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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10 Signs Your Company Needs a Business Accelerator Program

Entrepreneurs' Organization

You still find yourself doing all the operations pieces with no time to create or align to a vision. By Lauren King, Director of the EO Accelerator Program. From a high-level perspective, these small businesses are making a positive impact on the global economy, creating more jobs and empowering communities.

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The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education

TechCrunch

What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe. Indeed, the OECD estimated in 2019 that at least 80 million workers in Europe are mismatched in terms of their qualifications and what’s demanded in the workforce across a wide range of industries. More posts by this contributor.

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Stoa School wants to bring the vision of the ‘alternative MBA’ to India

TechCrunch

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. The Goa-based startup has raised millions to bring an unaccredited, high-quality alternative to higher business education in India amid a broader awakening of the country’s growing startup scene. The startup’s initial raise, a $1.5

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Framework raises $2M seed to create an ‘on-demand business school’ aimed at startups

TechCrunch

So this, essentially is what Framework has come up with, and it’s now raised a $2 million seed round to create an “on-demand business school” The edtech platform says it has more than 2,500 people on its waitlist ahead of its launch next year. Ideally, business education should be more on-demand, targeted, practical and byte-size.