Ted Rogers Offers Career Tips for the New Year
Now that winter break is officially over; it’s time to get back to work and back to school. We hope you spent the break productively, but if you didn’t, don’t worry the new semester is still a perfect time to shape up. And, according to Laura Henshaw (Co-op Coordinator at the Ted Rogers School of Management Business Career Hub), there are two things that you should do: tidy up your social media and expand your network. Continue reading…
Taking A Closer Look Inside The Seattle Startup Scene
The Seattle startup scene has always been vibrant. In fact, Seattle’s startup activity ranks among the world’s best and is an essential component of the city’s ecosystem. However, that doesn’t mean that Seattle hasn’t faced some issues regarding growth. While 2016 welcomed many new startups to Seattle and several lucrative financing deals, such as OfferUp’s $119 million round, Silicon Valley is holding the city back from reaching its full potential. Continue reading…
Decline of the Unicorns (A Startup Tale)
In advance of his upcoming course, ‘How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC,’ set to start 12 April 2016, London Business School’s blog recently spoke with Management Practice in Marketing and Entrepreneurship Professor John Mullins to gain insight into why we are starting to see a sharp decline in the value of so-called “unicorn” start-ups.
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NIU Prof Christine Mooney Chimes in on Twitter’s Interim CEO and Leadership Succession
Christine Mooney, Northern Illinois University’s Associate Professor of Management, lent her insights on leadership transitions to Bloomberg Business in an article they ran on the appointment of Twitter Interim CEO Jack Dorsey.
“You’re basically on cruise control in your company,” said Mooney in the article. “Jack Dorsey may be able to get away with some more changes than other interims, but really he could start something and the permanent CEO could come in and say, ‘I want to do something else.'” Continue reading…
Twitter to Join Other Major Tech Brands in Ponce City Market
It’s a huge boon to MBA students when major companies open offices near campus. For schools in the Atlanta metro area this is one of their biggest strengths. Atlanta is already home to a litany of major corporations and more even more start-ups. What more could you ask for? How about Twitter increasing their presence in the area by almost 500 percent?
According to a recent article by Urvash Karkaria in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Twitter will lease around 8,000 square feet in the new Ponce City Market. With this move Twitter is expected to grow it’s sales and marketing team to about 70 people from their current 15. Continue reading…
Cass Business School Scholars Identify Top CEOs and Start-Ups to Watch in 2015
A number of Cass Business School scholars spoke about the CEOs and start-ups on which they have their eyes in the new year. Check out some of their suggestions below.
Chris Roebuck, Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership
“Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, is a persona type leader who enjoys the strong backing of his employees. The company has been voted as one of the top five best organisations to work for. He’s one to watch on account of how it will be interesting to see how a more “technical expert” deals with being the leader of a fast growing organisation that’s becoming more corporate.”
Professor Vince Mitchell
“Anything to do with the sharing economy is going to be worth watching as it’s a way of matching untapped value in the things we already have with unmet needs of people. In addition, there’s a feel good factor because consumers are often helping to save the planet as well as give each other a little money rather than giving it to large companies. For a new solution to our UK weather, checkout Umbrella Here, or for a time out from our busy city lives checkout Breather.”
Professor Costas Andriopoulos
“Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of Theranos. She revolutionised the blood testing industry. With a drop of blood, Theranos can perform different tests ranging from standard cholesterol checks to complicated genetic analyses. This clearly is a game changer, since the results are far cheaper, faster and more accurate than conventional blood testing methods.”
