Stockbox Grocers, a start-up enterprise founded by several students from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, is listed in the recent Hartman Group report on trending Food Culture. · Read More

125 students from around the world came together in Stuttgart, Germany earlier this month to discuss global responsible leadership and integrity. BGI MBA students Amr Fouda and Stephanie Milbergs were there to participate. · Read More

Ray Anderson, the founder of Interface Inc and champion of sustainability, passed away August 8th at his home in Atlanta after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 77. · Read More

24 BGI students spent a week on Cortes Island with three instructors from IDEO and BGI founder Gifford Pinchot to learn about brainstorming, design innovation, prototyping, and using system leverage points to enhance creative techniques that can change the world. · 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

How often do we guess, assume, rely on the street narrative regarding our business commmunity, its competitiveness and performance?  While the available data can never fully describe our economy, the most recent cluster analysis of Washington state’s economy comes close. Authored by Paul Sommers, William Beyers, and Andrew Wenzl, they have detailed the geography, indentified the · Read More · Read More

Originally published in John’s Journal: Research and Development by the University of Missouri. Copyright 2006, Curators of the University of Missouri. Public research universities are faced with the ongoing challenge of finding the best combination of funding sources to match their missions. The relative proportion of funding from the state, tuition and fees, services, gifts · Read More · Read More

Originally published in John’s Journal: Research and Development by the University of Missouri. Copyright 2005, Curators of the University of Missouri. One doesn’t question the need for the chemist, the artist, or the athlete to polish and practice their skill in preparation for their final tests. The chemist has the lab, the artist has the · Read More · Read More