Resolute Marine Energy (RME) founder and CEO Bill Staby and COO Olivier Ceberio believed their company’s wave energy desalination system could provide safe and affordable drinking water to water-stressed communities. They set their sights on launching RME’s Wave2O system in Ugu, South Africa, popula...
The keys are a personal connection, a value proposition, and perseverance.
In the June 7-8, 2014 weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, an article entitled “Accounting Errors Hit Hertz Hard” caught auto industry analyst Abby Devins’s attention. Devins recalled that Hertz had hinted in March about the possibility of having to restate its 2011 financial statements, but ...
On October 7, 2019, businessmen Jonathan Soros and Jon Patricof pitched a concept for a new professional sports startup to four professional softball players who had traveled to Soros’s office in New York City. During the meeting, the two men laid out their vision for an innovative professional soft...
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Three MIT students who took the USA Lab class this past spring say their team project exploring the effects of the pandemic on immigrants in northeast Iowa was an experience they will not soon forget.
Five MIT entrepreneurs-in-residence share the strategies that separate successful startups from those that struggle when capital becomes scarce.
The MIT Sloan startup promises an inclusive experience beyond room and board.
