Monday, November 2, 2009

Good article on NYTimes.com: M.B.A.'s Guide Socially Concerned Entrepreneurs. Nice2see my school INSEAD leading the way


I found this article on NYTimes.com around how MBA students are teaming up with Socially Concerned Entrepreneurs and how my school INSEAD has created a program around it

PARIS — As questions go, it was short and to the point: “If you are so smart, why aren’t you rich?”

That challenge, splashed across her daughter’s T-shirt, inspired Una Ryan to leave a medical research career, developing vaccines, to start her own business.

“Being a medical researcher, I changed that statement to say, if you are so smart, why haven’t you saved more lives?,” said Ms. Ryan, at a lunch in Paris last month honoring finalists in this year’s Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, an annual competition for women entrepreneurs. Ms. Ryan was one of five winners of this year’s awards.



Read the full article on NYTimes.com


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