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From growth to supergrowth – Cranfield Venture Day 2016
All economies need businesses to grow so that employment is created and wealth is generated for the owners and for society. This does place a big onus on entrepreneurial firms and on government policies to ...
How to be a successful entrepreneur
I started out as a trainee scientist at an electronics research centre at the age of 16, armed with only a handful of O Levels, but an enormous amount of enthusiasm and dedication. I experienced ...
Male middle managers must see gender equality as business-critical
It is often presumed that the lack of women in senior positions is, at least in part, due to the lack of female role models. While role models are clearly important for women and men ...
Employee bonuses: why, what and how?
“I will not work any harder or any less hard in any year, in any day because someone is going to pay me any more or less." John Cryan, CEO Deutsche Bank, November 2015 After ...
Entrepreneurship and making water from waste: Bottles for Growth and the Social Venture Challenge
Cranfield University’s Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship recently organised the University’s first Social Venture Challenge, a start-up weekend aimed at encouraging students to 'think like entrepreneurs' about ways to solve complex social and environmental issues to ...