Building Your Board while Building Your Company
Entrepreneur, board member, and advisor to CEOs and boards, Mimi Macksoud, shares her insights when shaping a Board of Directors.
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Rich Schneider & Bill Mitchell
- Mar 7
The UCLA Tech Development Story – From Average to Breakaway
A case study about bringing University IP to commercialization and how UCLA set a new benchmark of transformation from average to breakaway
Tom Doorley
- Feb 7
Growth? Now?
Facing an uncertain economy, with a recession likely, maintaining growth in your organization’s hierarchy of strategic priorities seems...
Rich Schneider
- Oct 11, 2022
Creating Value from University IP: A Work In Process
Innovation created by American universities is broadly recognized as being the world’s best. The American university research community...
Thomas Doorley III & Robert Kueppers
- Jun 23, 2022
The G in ESG—Governance to Make ESG Actionable
ESG Governance—intended to further the implementation of ESG priorities—has a problem
Rich Schneider
- Jun 22, 2022
How We Work
Earlier this spring the head of Apple’s machine learning initiative resigned. At first glance, this is not major news. His reason for...
Thomas Doorley III & Robert Kueppers
- May 4, 2022
The S in ESG
ESG: The challenge for the ‘S’ is how to navigate the turbulent waters of controversy while staying true to the organization’s core values.
Thomas Doorley III & Robert Kueppers
- Apr 12, 2022
The E in ESG
ESG sits at the top of C-Suite and Board of Directors’ priorities.
Thomas Doorley III & Robert Kueppers
- Mar 29, 2022
ESG and the Board of Directors
The emergence of ESG, or Environmental, Social, and Governance, as a “front and center” issue has developed over the last several years.
Lawrence A. Bennigson, Ph.D.
- Mar 9, 2022
Opportunity and Risk Management: The Dual Roles of the Board in Growing Value
Corporations are awash in cash. The Wall Street Journal reported cash and short-term investments on corporate balance sheets globally are...
Lawrence A. Bennigson, Ph.D.
- Oct 12, 2021
Four Qualities of Exceptional Management Thought
The four essential features or qualities that define an exceptional contribution to business thought and practice.
Rich Schneider and Donald Plumley
- Oct 6, 2021
We’ve Got This Brilliant Idea – What Could Go Wrong?
Entrepreneurship Education has a Blind Spot - What's missing between the classroom and what entrepreneurs need to know?
Kathy Schaller
- Jun 21, 2021
What Makes a Dashboard Strategic?
A good navigation plan identifies a set of goals and the factors that will contribute to or stand as obstacles to achieving the goals.
John Hansen
- Jun 17, 2021
Strategic Navigation and Emerging from the Pandemic in the U.S.
A prime topic of discussion was how many companies have both faced new challenges and also been resilient during the recent pandemic.
Mimi Macksoud
- Jun 16, 2021
Well-being: Two Dimensions
Wellbeing was a universal theme this past year. Our panelists expressed deep concern for the health and safety of their employees.
Donald Plumley
- Jun 15, 2021
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Flying and eating out. Concern about the Delta variant, states with low vaccination rates, and implications for the fall. The Board's role t
Tom Doorley
- Jun 10, 2021
A Better Recovery This Time: (re)Ignite Growth #1
Our recovery from the 2008 global recession was historically slow. Business leaders stayed in the bunkers too long.
Kathy Schaller
- Jan 22, 2021
CEOs tell how a “Winning Mindset” drives growth
During the second virtual event of our (re)Ignite Growth series, Winning with a Growth Mindset, Sage Partners led a panel discussion with...
Tom Doorley
- Sep 1, 2020
Failure Can Be Good
In short, he failed. But that's not the end of the story.
Rich Schneider
- Jul 30, 2020
Embracing Uncertainty to (re)Ignite Growth – An Unnatural Act?
If you go to 10 of your most trusted sources of business advice and counsel, you are bound to get 15 different “expert opinions”
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