Women Entrepreneurship- Global Study

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ISB teaches a training program for the initiative here - but it could be a really cool thing for the Kellogg School Levy Center for Entrepreneurship, particularly to have something both global and focused on women (then you could maybe pull resources from other areas as well). I don’t know what level of involvement the US schools have, but it seems like a great way to spark involvement in the area of global entrepreneurship and lets you piggyback on the work Goldman has already done (plus Wharton, Stanford, Michigan and Harvard are in on it). Also, looks like John Simon’s Center for Global Development is a nonprofit partner in this.

http://www.10000women.org/10kw_partners.html

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Comments

[Global Entrepreneur Fellow from the Kellogg School]

Great idea worth pursuing
Erin, Keep developing this line of thought. Global perspective helps, as we know that countries that do not suppress women thrive. John Wood of Room to Read serves primarily young women, and he would have a view on this as well. Andrew Youn in Kenya serves mostly women head of households as well. Is there a paper or case in this subject? Kellogg pioneered a course on Women Entrepreneurship 5-6 years ago. After 2 years the enrollment fell very low- too low. Supposedly the professor was fine- that may or may not be true. Kellogg has pioneering women entrepreneurs and funders to entrepreneurs: 1. Sona Wang 2. Betty Chow 3. Venita Fields 4. Julia Stamberger 5. …… and on… Kellogg is the #1 school for women MBAs according to WSJ, and the entrepreneurship program at Kellogg is even with Marketing in its caliber. Thus, the evidence here may show some discrepancy between what women MBAs say they want and what they really want. Most women here seem to be getting what they want from the entrepreneurship offerings as they are offered. That said, just yesterday, Prof. Rogers and I talked about writing a case series on women entrepreneurship. Adding a global view would further strengthen the case. A friend, advocate and alum, Nancy Sullivan, would have her views on this. She runs Tech Transfer at UIC now. It would be worth investigating for the global aspect. Scott

[Global Entrepreneur Fellow from the Kellogg School]

Great idea worth pursuing
Erin, Keep developing this line of thought. Global perspective helps, as we know that countries that do not suppress women thrive. John Wood of Room to Read serves primarily young women, and he would have a view on this as well. Andrew Youn in Kenya serves mostly women head of households as well. Is there a paper or case in this subject? Kellogg pioneered a course on Women Entrepreneurship 5-6 years ago. After 2 years the enrollment fell very low- too low. Supposedly the professor was fine- that may or may not be true. Kellogg has pioneering women entrepreneurs and funders to entrepreneurs: 1. Sona Wang 2. Betty Chow 3. Venita Fields 4. Julia Stamberger 5. …… and on… Kellogg is the #1 school for women MBAs according to WSJ, and the entrepreneurship program at Kellogg is even with Marketing in its caliber. Thus, the evidence here may show some discrepancy between what women MBAs say they want and what they really want. Most women here seem to be getting what they want from the entrepreneurship offerings as they are offered. That said, just yesterday, Prof. Rogers and I talked about writing a case series on women entrepreneurship. Adding a global view would further strengthen the case. A friend, advocate and alum, Nancy Sullivan, would have her views on this. She runs Tech Transfer at UIC now. It would be worth investigating for the global aspect. Scott