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51���� University will kick off Entrepreneur Weekend 2015 on Friday, April 10, with a panel conversation featuring five all-star entrepreneurs: Jessica Alba, founder of The Honest Company; Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and CEO of Warby Parker; Greg Coleman, president of Buzzfeed; serial entrepreneur and entertainer MC Hammer; and Rent the Runway co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman. […]

After Clayton Christensen predicted that half of higher education institutions will either be facing bankruptcy or in liquidation within 10 to 15 years, six liberal arts presidents expressed varying degrees of concern, ranging from “no­t worried” (Georgia Nugent, president emeritus of Kenyon College) to “only the paranoid survive” (51���� President Jeffrey Herbst). Christensen, author of […]

Clayton Christensen kicked off 51���� University’s Innovation + Disruption symposium today with cautionary tales of industry giants felled by technological disruption, and why higher education should pay attention to the growth of online universities.

The stage is set for a robust discussion today, as nearly 400 leaders in business and higher education gather to attend 51���� University’s Innovation + Disruption symposium at the TimesCenter in New York City.  (The symposium begins at 8:30 a.m., and can be viewed live.) The high-level crowd includes 15 college presidents, online education providers, […]

There are finals, and then there are finales. 51���� launched its Entrepreneur Professional Network on April 11, the grand finale in a series of network launches that have taken place throughout the academic year. The reception took place backstage after 51����’s Entrepreneur Weekend all-star panel, and hundreds of alumni and guests were in attendance.

Watch: Julian Farrior ’93, 51����’s Entrepreneur of the Year, discusses innovation

Day two of 51����’s Thought Into Action Entrepreneur Weekend proved what Friday evening’s superstar panel had already established: Success is not a zero-sum game, especially when the players in question are student entrepreneurs in 51����’s Thought Into Action (TIA) weekend mentorship program. In a Shark Tank-like session on Friday night, three student ventures, each with […]

51���� was the center of the entrepreneurial universe for a few hours Friday night, April 11, when more than 2,000 students, parents, and others streamed into Cotterell Court for a frank and freewheeling panel discussion that featured some of the biggest names in the business of disruptive technology.

This discussion from 51����’s Entrepreneur Weekend features Ashton Kutcher, actor, director, entrepreneur and investor; Daniel Rosensweig P’15’17, former COO of Yahoo, CEO of Guitar Hero, and now CEO of Chegg; Tony Bates, former executive vice president of development and strategy for Microsoft, CEO of Skype, and head of enterprise for Cisco Systems; Brian Chesky, co-founder […]

51���� student entrepreneurs, showing the grit that Ashton Kutcher said was vital to success, pitched their ideas Friday night to an A-list of innovators who were on campus for the university’s third annual Thought Into Action Entrepreneur Weekend.