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• 50 big ideas to navigate tomorrow: Space.

  - 2007-06-08

  Jun 08, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review Boss - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Space will be the next frontier to be conquered by bold entrepreneurs. Stephen Hawking, astrophysicist at Cambridge University, says space is the key to mankind's survival. Space travel is destined to become one...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, University of Cambridge, Virgin Galactic

• PA Consulting Group and Cambridge University Entrepreneurs team up to accelerate the UK's best science and technology ideas from concept to business success.

  - 2007-03-29

  M2 PRESSWIRE-29 March 2007-PA CONSULTING: PA Consulting Group and Cambridge University Entrepreneurs team up to accelerate the UK's best science and technology ideas from concept to business successC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29032007 PA Consulting Group PA - the leading international management,...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, PA Consulting Group, team, University of Cambridge

• Becoming A Global Entrepreneur: It Takes Networks, Passion And Experience

  BNET - 2006-09-12

  Starting and growing businesses has been the subject of much research and investigation over many years. A critical view of this research is that they tend to be one off studies, sometimes using inappropriate samples; they are rarely longitudinal in scope or scale. Meanwhile, there is an endless stream of...

  Tags: University Of Cambridge, Network, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Management

• Arthur Miller—this very American writer

  - 2005-06-01

  Arthur Miller: A Critical Study. Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]55.00. 550 pages. ISBN 0-521-84416-9. With the death of Arthur Miller all consideration of his work at this time gains a poignancy in place of intended celebration. The Methuselah of American theatre leaves behind an indelible imprint. Arthur...

  Tags: CAREER, Entrepreneurship, Miller, tragedy, University of Cambridge

• Andrea Colli, The History of Family Business, 1850-2000.(Book Review)

  - 2004-01-01

  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.v + 108. H/back ISBN 0 521 80028 5, 25 [pounds sterling]; p/back ISBN 0 521 80472 8, 9.95 [pounds sterling]). Over three decades or more, the Macmillan 'Studies in Economic and Social History' have established themselves as shortish...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, University of Cambridge, VOIP

• Entrepreneurial Orientation and Entrepreneur's Intentions and Objectives

  BNET - 2003-09-01

  Entrepreneurship has become an important issue for policy. At one level, enterprise creation is recognized as important for employment growth and effecting structural change; at another, there is concern to encourage existing firms to become more entrepreneurial as a means of enhancing international competitiveness. Entrepreneurial orientation EO reflected in recurring...

  Tags: Entrepreneurial, Organizational Behavior, University Of Cambridge, Entrepreneurship, Management

• Entrepreneurs advised to return to being risk-taking cowboys.

  - 2003-07-23

  Jul 23, 2003 (The Canberra Times - ABIX via COMTEX) An expert in entrepreneurship, Peter Hiscocks, told a Canberra business seminar on 22 July 2003 venture capitalists should take more risks. Hiscocks is the director of Cambridge University's Entrepreneurship Centre. He claimed too many...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, FINANCE, Investment, University of Cambridge

• Help one another, use one another: toward an anthropology of family business

  - 2003-06-22

  Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This article considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive from the discrepancy between the normative orders of kinship and markets; respectively, long-term generalized reciprocity and short-term balanced reciprocity. Because...

  Tags: Benedict, Bias, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, London, M., network, University of Cambridge

• CMI boosts UK entrepreneurial spirit by gathering top investors for first gala event.

  - 2001-06-11

  M2 PRESSWIRE-11 June 2001-CMI: CMI boosts UK entrepreneurial spirit by gathering top investors for first gala event C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11062001 The Cambridge-MIT Institute CMI, which is a new alliance between Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

  Tags: CMI, entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, investor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge

• IT millionaire entrepreneur slams IR35 Tax Law as anti-competitive, forcing UK talent and companies abroad.

  - 2001-02-27

  M2 PRESSWIRE-27 February 2001-@Software: IT millionaire entrepreneur slams IR35 Tax Law as anti-competitive, forcing UK talent and companies abroad C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26022001 In an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, Ronald Duncan, Chairman of @Software...

  Tags: e-business, E-business/E-commerce, Entrepreneurship, INTERNET, millionaire, Strategy, talent, University of Cambridge