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Five Questions for Jefferey Hayzlett
Jeffrey Hayzlett is a best-selling author, social media advocate, a past Chief Marketing Officer of Kodak who conducted an aggressive social media, re-branding campaign to try to salvage the brand. 4Entrepreneur - What did you learn from your days at Kodak? JH - The importance of listening. � [...]
Martin Scorsese: How to Lead a Creative Life
AT 69, AN AGE WHEN MOST HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS have been packed off after a hollow cavalcade of plaudits, roasts, and nostalgic fetes, Martin Scorsese is once again panicked about hitting a deadline. His new movie is Hugo, a 3-D children's movie being released by Paramount Pictures this Thanksgiving [...]
Too Important to Fail
Watch Tavis Smiley Reports: "Too Important to Fail" on PBS. See more from Tavis Smiley. “Too Important to Fail” examines one of the most disturbing aspects of the education crisis facing America today — the increased dropout rate among teenagers, specifically among Black teenage males. In [...]
The 10 Movies for Entrepreneurs
The Blues Brothers. Aside from sheer good humor, Blues Brothers has to be on every entrepreneur’s list because Jake and Elroy are on a mission from on high. And if you truly believe in your startup when everyone else thinks you’re nuts, you are on a mission and you have a purpose, regardles [...]
When Peter Drucker Speaks
Newt Gingrich on the life of Peter Drucker and his three-decade romance with Drucker's ideas I first learned about Peter Drucker more than 30 years ago from a professor at Georgia Tech. Although I was a student at Emory, I had been sent to Georgia Tech byGene Sanders, Georgia's Republican state [...]Featured blog posts 
Five Questions for Jefferey Hayzlett
01|28|2012
Jeffrey Hayzlett is a best-selling author, social media advocate, a past Chief Marketing Officer of Kodak who conducted an aggressive social media, re-branding campaign to try to salvage the brand.
4Entrepreneur – What did you learn from your days at Kodak?
JH – The importance of listening. Our customers were telling us things about [...]
Five Questions with Jeffrey Hayzlett
01|17|2012
- Jay Maharjan
Jeffrey Hayzlett is the best selling author of ‘The Mirror Test’. Jeff has recently come out with his second book, ‘Running the Gauntlet’. He served as a CMO at Kodak where he played an instrumental role in re-branding the company and pioneering social media strategy in the Corporate America setting. Jeff is a [...]
Lessons from CES: Content will be king
01|15|2012
- Jay Maharjan
Though this was my first time attending CES, I had a fairly good idea of what to expect. I knew the world’s largest trade show with 140,000 people attending from around the world would be overwhelming. My interest going into this event was mainly focused on learning where the industry stood in terms [...]
Martin Scorsese: How to Lead a Creative Life
01|09|2012
AT 69, AN AGE WHEN MOST HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS have been packed off after a hollow cavalcade of plaudits, roasts, and nostalgic fetes, Martin Scorsese is once again panicked about hitting a deadline. His new movie is Hugo, a 3-D children’s movie being released by Paramount Pictures this Thanksgiving weekend, and Scorsese has never before directed in [...]
Too Important to Fail
12|27|2011
Watch Tavis Smiley Reports: “Too Important to Fail” on PBS. See more from Tavis Smiley.
“Too Important to Fail” examines one of the most disturbing aspects of the education crisis facing America today — the increased dropout rate among teenagers, specifically among Black teenage males. In the fifth installment ofTavis Smiley Reports, Tavis investigates the root [...]
How Peter Drucker Influenced Me
12|23|2011
Jay Maharjan
12-23-2011
I recently connected with Bruce Rosenstein, a notable author and a veteran USA Today writer for 21 years. He is the author of “Living in more than one world: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life”. As we were sharing personal anecdotes on Peter Drucker, my mentor at the management school and [...]
The 10 Movies for Entrepreneurs
12|19|2011
The Blues Brothers. Aside from sheer good humor, Blues Brothers has to be on every entrepreneur’s list because Jake and Elroy are on a mission from on high. And if you truly believe in your startup when everyone else thinks you’re nuts, you are on a mission and you have a purpose, regardless of what is [...]
When Peter Drucker Speaks
12|19|2011
Newt Gingrich on the life of Peter Drucker and his three-decade romance with Drucker’s ideas
I first learned about Peter Drucker more than 30 years ago from a professor at Georgia Tech. Although I was a student at Emory, I had been sent to Georgia Tech byGene Sanders, Georgia’s Republican state senator at the time, to see Pete Jensen, a [...]
Drucker’s Vibrant, Timeless Wisdom
12|18|2011
Three former chairmen of NYU Stern’s Management Department assess
Drucker’s life and work, and his two fruitful decades at the School.
Fruitful Tenure
Drucker became deeply interested in management as a study in itself. He was attracted to New York University Graduate School of Business Administration (GBA), as Stern was then known, in 1950 with its student body [...]
Peter Drucker on Leadership
12|18|2011
What are Peter Drucker’s lessons for leaders?
What did Peter Drucker, the Father of Modern Management, have to say about leadership? Because Drucker believed that management was itself an important and noble endeavor, he did not, throughout most of his career, focus much on leadership. Having fled Nazi Germany soon after Hitler’s rise to power, Peter Drucker’s view [...]
Support Entrepreneurs via Fair Trade Organization
11|25|2011
What is Fair Trade?
07 November 2009
Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, marginalized producers and workers – especially in the South.
Fair Trade organizations have a clear commitment [...]
Economic Impact on Entrepreneurs Beyond the NBA Lockout
11|18|2011
SUSIE GHARIB: It’s day 117 of the NBA lockout. Team owners and players are still at an impasse. Throughout the day there have been expectations of a report announcing the cancellation of two additional weeks of games. So far, no official word. In tonight’s “Beyond the Scoreboard,” Rick Horrow runs the numbers on the economic [...]
Peter Drucker’s take on a “fact-based decision”
11|07|2011
Here is a good article on Peter Drucker’s invaluable take on a “fact-based decision”. Stephen Wunker has made a valid argument on why the views of the management guru from the 20th century is still very much relevant.
Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts
by Stephen Wunker (excerpt from HBR)
Management consulting is an industry built on facts. [...]
The rise of the Boomer entrepreneur
11|06|2011
Jonathan Chevreau Nov 5, 2011 –
If the basic premise of business is to find a need and fill it, then Michael Morris has stumbled on both a need and an opportunity.
Morris is a leading-edge Baby Boomer born in 1945. Despite working in the fashion business for 40 years, he found it a “daunting [...]
Immigrant Entrepreneur Turned Away
11|02|2011
U.S. kicks out Stanford graduated entrepreneur trying to create jobs in America.
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12 Hours Left! Support an Indie film maker’s campaign on Kickstart
11|01|2011
Set against the backdrop of the new “culture” of organizing bandhs (general strikes) in post-conflict Nepal, HIGHWAY explores five different relationship stories that become connected during an ill-fated bus journey from eastern Nepal to the capital, Kathmandu. When the passengers discover that sometimes wedding parties are permitted through the massive traffic jams caused by bandhs, [...]
Frank Gary: Life’s work
11|01|2011
Frank Gehry is, at 82, America’s most celebrated living architect. His designs, including the Guggenheim Bilbao and Disney Hall in Los Angeles, are all technically challenging and unmistakably his. Gehry’s creative process famously borrows from artists; less well known is his fierce commitment to budgeting and the architect’s role as project manager. Interviewed by Katherine [...]
Entrepreneurship Lessons For The Academic-Minded
10|31|2011
October 31, 2011
The slow pace of job creation has revived interest in getting promising new technologies out of university labs and into the marketplace. At Stanford University, a group of academic researchers from all over the country gathered to take a crash course in how to turn their projects into startup companies.
Ellis Meng and Tuan [...]
How the valley was won
10|31|2011
From the early days of Stanford, to pioneers who revolutionized the world while Steve Jobs was still in diapers, this is how a humble farming valley transformed into the epicenter of all things tech.
Robert Metcalfe is an intriguing character. He holds several university degrees, writes a nationally syndicated tech column, has for several years run [...]
Selling Pieces of Law Firms to Investors
10|30|2011
Imagine an afternoon trip to a Wal-Mart: You pick up socks, a flat-screen television and a microwave meal. After checking out, you stop in the photo studio at the front of the store for a family portrait, and then shift one booth over to a lawyer, who drafts your will or real estate contract.
Read NYT [...]
Hope for American Manufacturing
10|30|2011
By Chris Farrell
America’s manufacturing industry is in terminal decline, right? Smokestack America has been battered for decades by low-cost foreign competitors. Steel furnaces went cold, assembly lines shut down, and factory production moved overseas–especially to China, the world’s epicenter for mass production. A common refrain on the political stump and the nation’s op-ed pages [...]
What CEO’s exit means for GOOGLE
01|21|2011
- Jay Maharjan
Even though Google is downplaying the unexpected news, I think the shakeup will bring about fundamental changes to maintain sustainable competitive advantage for the mega search giant.
Google has opportunity to create other sources of major revenue centers – besides Adwords/adsense
Its true that Google Adsense adds tremendous value and that the way revenue grew [...]
Video: 2011 Innovation Panel @ CES Las Vegas
01|16|2011
Good points on -
- Immigration policy
- Export policy
- Education Policy
- R&D Tax credit
- 90% of growth rate coming from outside of the United States
- Learn from Germany’s export initiatives
- double taxation hurting American corporations
- measuring effectiveness, amending education policy, arcane business tax policies
- reforming governance, governance not being able to keep up with the speed [...]
Independent America – Rising from Ruins
01|15|2011
This is the story of the frustrating, spirited battle of a people in New Orleans dedicated to bringing their communities back to life.
Interesting documentary, good assessment of influence of large multi-nationals on local mom and pops and entrepreneurs.
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Changing the World through Innovation
01|14|2011
- Jay Maharjan
I recently saw the visiting Chilean minister of economy Juan Andrés Fontaine speaking to American entrepreneurs – inviting them to come to innovate in Chile, entirely on their dime. It is a brilliant idea if you think of it and quite radical at the same time. The Chilean government is sponsoring 25 start-up [...]
Corporate Governance and the Banking Sector
01|13|2011
- Jay Maharjan
Whether in North America, Europe or in Asia, banks are going through major transformation. While parts of Asia are looking bullish, the story is different in the United States and in Europe. Storied demise of the banks like Indymac in the United States points to the new need for reform within corporate governance [...]
How India can redefine ‘Industrial Discipline’
01|09|2011
- Jay Maharjan
‘Industrial Discipline’ was a remarkable initiative undertaken in the West in the mid fiftees – to get new workforce ready for the industrial revolution. We are seeing a new wave of industrial discipline currently taking place in India and China. Though China is moving at a [...]
Finding Tomorrow’s Growth Engines Today
01|09|2011
Excerpt from S+B
After several years of survival mode for many companies, growth is back on the agenda. But the requirements for success have changed. In today’s conditions — uncertain recovery, limited capital, and many new competitors — companies must find new ways to grow.
There’s no going back to the growth ideas that were bouncing around [...]
Rethinking American export policies to help entrepreneurs
01|07|2011
- Jay Maharjan
President Obama’s recent decision to re-strategize the export policy is a timely move. The current trade policy is getting obsolete – with the clauses like the one that restricts Radio Shack from exporting electronic gadgets was appropriate in the 70’s when the rest of the world didn’t have the same level of technology [...]
Signs of the Times
01|07|2011
- Jay Maharjan
I was speaking with a veteran multiple Emmy award winning producer and filmmaker the other day and he was sharing his experience on how it took a village to produce the smallest of a TV project 30 years ago and how we have come a long way. When I read this morning about [...]
The End of Middle Management as we know it
01|06|2011
- Jay Maharjan
It was a blessing in disguise when I got my first job out of engineering school as a middle manager. Lessons learned that as a middle manager you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. You are given a limited amount of descision making capability from the top and at the [...]
Is M&A the best way to grow your company?
01|05|2011
- by Shellie Karabell
There are several good ways to grow a company, but only about a third of firms actively use all the methods available to them, and this narrow focus widens the corporate gap between success and failure significantly.
That’s according to a 10-year global study of 162 telecom companies conducted [...]
2010 Roundup
01|02|2011
- Jay Maharjan
2010 was a roller coaster year for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs faced the good, the bad and the ugly when it came to sustaining their businesses, start-ups. The goal for most entrepreneurs in the United States this past year was to survive over making big plans. Banks were not forthcoming in terms of offering much [...]
The Worst of Times for VCs in the US?
12|30|2010
- Jay Maharjan
Ever wonder if we are going through another bubble, here is a synopsis on the VC outlook and the assessment of the performance from this past year
VCs are not going through a bubble.
Though media is quick to pointing out that the Venture Capital industry in the United States is going through a bubble, [...]
Bank investments in private equity: an unfair advantage?
12|29|2010
by Stuart Pallister
A recent study has called into question private equity investments by bank-affiliated PE firms. The study by INSEAD Professor Lily Fang with co-authors Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner of Harvard, called ‘An Unfair Advantage’? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing, found that between 1983 and 2009, bank-affiliated groups accounted for more than a [...]
Salvaging the Middle Class
12|19|2010
- Jay Maharjan
I do not believe in socialism, but I have to admit that the current socialist Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders’ speech does reflect a fairly accurate state of America. In his passionate speech given on the Senate floor, Senator Sanders presents a case for shrinking middle class in America. He makes his [...]
Government Intervention?
12|12|2010
- Jay Maharjan
My recent visit to London and my interaction with scholars at the London Business School and London School of Economics had me thinking about the venture capital model in the UK versus the one that we have in the United States. Venture capital model is no doubt the way to go to encourage [...]
New tax bill : What It means for entrepreneurs
12|11|2010
- Jay Maharjan
Though the current bi-partisan bill is not exactly what most entrepreneurs and businesses wanted, it does have much needed incentives for entrepreneurs.
Bi-partisan effort
Bill clinton said it best during a recent press conference that there is never a perfect bi-partisan bill in the eye of the partisan. Though entrepreneurs and corporate America would simply [...]
Entrepreneurship: A Global Perspective
12|04|2010
- Jay Maharjan
After catching up on much needed sleep I am starting to reflect on my five week trip to London, Delhi, Mumbai and Kathmandu.
It was great to be able to connect with students and faculty at London School of Business and London School of Economics. I found entrepreneurial spirit to be high among students [...]
Universities: An Entrepreneur’s Ecosystem
12|01|2010
Universities offer a thriving ecosystem that lends itself particularly well to entrepreneurship among students, faculty, and staff. My belief in the ability of the institution of higher education to foster entrepreneurship comes first hand from my experiences as a student entrepreneur at the University of Toronto, as well as my work with Young Inventors International, [...]
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