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Daniel Isenberg “Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value”
Hear and meet award-winning Dan Isenberg,
Woods Hole School graduate-turned-Harvard
professor, on Wednesday, July 28, 7:30 PM
at the Woods Hole Library. He will focus his talk on his recently published book “Worthless,
Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture
Extraordinary Value” (Harvard Business
Review Press 2013).
Which
has been reviewed by all of the major media, including the Economist, Forbes,
Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, as well as Sir Richard Branson,
Worthless,
Impossible and Stupid is a unique global foray into the world of
unusual entrepreneurs, from the chicken designer in Delhi to the billion dollar
retailer in Slovenia, and from the video pill developer in Israel to the wind
turbine blade maker in Brazil.
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Raised in Woods Hole, Daniel Isenberg earned
the Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. was a professor for 11
years at the Harvard Business School. He has been an entrepreneur and venture
capitalist in Israel, and is an active angel investor. Daniel is also a widely
published author.
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Daniel’s blog posts have been viewed by
over a million people. He is presently Babson Executive Education Professor of
Entrepreneurship Practice, founding executive director of the Babson
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project (BEEP), and Adjunct
Professor at Columbia School of Business.
Daniel has been a pioneer in the concept
and development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, and he currently directs
several projects in cities in Colombia, United States, and Denmark. For this
work, in 2012 Mikhail Gorbachev awarded Isenberg the Pio Manzu Award for
“Innovations in economic development.” In October 2014 Daniel and Babson will
launch the three-day open enrollment program, Driving
Economic Growth Through Entrepreneurship Ecosystems at Babson Executive
Education.
For
more information, call the Library at 508-548-8961 or view the website
www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org.
