I got up and wrote it down: “BGI is a life long learning community, nourishing personal transformation, to do good in the world.” · Read More

BGI students in both the evening and hybrid MBA programs have eagerly taken on the challenge of raising funds and showing their support by growing mustaches for the month of Movember. · Read More

Are you passionate about social sustainability? Do you have a sustainably-minded business idea rolling around in your head? Do you need practice pitching your business idea in front of professionals? Well, the perfect opportunity has just presented itself. · Read More

I’ve always admired those that can drive backwards with ease. Using only mirrors, and even with the added complications of a trailer, they chart their course with confidence. I’m reminded of this as I retrain my own instincts to fully comprehend what’s been coined reverse innovation. Rather than from the Nobel laureate’s lab, this is the · Read More · Read More

Yesterday’s address by Carl Schramm at the National Press Club included both good and bad news.  He presented further evidence of entrepreneurship as the catalyst for a vibrant US economy.  He also shared a poll suggesting entrepreneurs have an increasingly dim view of our country’s future competitiveness. I had the privilege of working my youth away caring for · Read More · Read More

Most are familiar with the revolution of microenterprise and microlending spreading through-out the developing world. Grameen Bank, and it’s founder Muhammad Yunus were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for unleashing entrepreneurship in places never thought possible. Which lessons learned would be applicable across the US, across Washington state? There is a growing community · Read More · Read More

Any business or institution with distant, multiple locations knows the tension – aligning the mission, goals, and protocol of headquarters with the operational reality of the local branch office.   When do you ask permission? Seek forgiveness?  Plead ignorance?  You’ll find no written guide on how to be a good branch manager.  And, with WSU itself · Read More · Read More

Among all the ways the world is changing, one of the most dramatic is the whole concept behind innovation. Ideas have always been born, matured, and died – perhaps the new economy has simply quickened the pace. But one can’t deny that the world today commands (and rewards) different skills in people, in businesses, and in institutions · Read More · Read More