On Leadership: Seeing Baltimore as an Innovation Hub
Last week, I shared the results of an Abell Foundation study comparing Baltimore’s innovation ecosystem with the more established community found in Boston. While the authors undertook a fair...
View ArticleOn Leadership: Seeing Baltimore as an Innovation Hub
Courtesy Citybizlist — Our last two columns have suggested that it’s worth understanding Baltimore’s innovation community and the broader impact it’s having on our region. Well… there is no better time...
View ArticleBaltimore’s Innovation Community: The Economic Outlook Forum
Courtesy Citybizlist – I had the chance last week to present the state of our region’s innovation community at the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Economic Outlook Forum. This year, the GBC forum focused...
View Article“We Need More Entrepreneurs” and Other Conclusions for a Better Baltimore
At the Greater Baltimore Committee’s recent Economic Outlook Forum – which focused entirely on our innovation community – I ended my comments by focusing on five challenges we need to overcome to fully...
View ArticleOn Leadership: A Tale of Two Cities
Courtesy Citybizlist – Two seemingly incongruous items hit my in box last week. One was Jay Brodie’s recent column in the Baltimore Business Journal, half lamenting and half celebrating the state of...
View ArticleOn Leadership: Developing an Innovation District
Philly is planning one. Boston already has one, so does Austin. We don’t; neither does Silicon Valley: finally we have something in common. So the question begged (among several) is why would any city...
View ArticleOn Leadership: Why Not Use Baltimore Schools as Innovation Test Kitchens?
Courtesy Citybizlist – In my last column of 2013, I wrote about Citelighter’s arrival in Baltimore from New York City. In my conversation with its founders, Saad Alam and Lee Jokl, they answered the...
View ArticleA Conversation with YMCA Head John Hoey
Courtesy Citybizlist – John Hoey left the profit driven realm where success was measured “quarter to quarter” to lead the region’s YMCA. He was excited to have a chance to “think long term about how to...
View ArticleSaving Baltimore One Brain at a Time: A Conversation with John Cammack,...
From Citybizlist – Many of us have read Tracy Halvorsen’s lament on Baltimore. The post has been read by hundreds of thousands of people. It struck a nerve, or awakened some reflexive sinew we have...
View ArticleAnother Way to Think About Violence: A Conversation with John Cammack
From Citybizlist– I was a bit unfair last week. I suggested that my conversation with John Cammack, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, was somehow going to reveal how we could save Baltimore one...
View ArticleOn Leadership: Violence As A Disease – A Conversation with Gary Slutkin of...
From Citybizlist – Cure Violence is committed to treating violence as an infectious disease. They use methods and strategies associated with disease control: first, using detection to identify...
View ArticleThe Science of Stress: A Conversation with Karen Kreisberg, Betsy Krieger and...
Courtesy Citybizlist— So how do you take the science of stress and design a solution that makes a difference to kids, their families and communities in which they live? Amy Bloom Connolly has been...
View ArticleField Guide to the Feral Exec
Courtesy Citybizlist – While they’re hard to spot casually, we all know them. They’re in our organizations, among our customers, in our networks. The most “successful” seem to operate on invisible...
View ArticleThe Hiring Conundrum: An Interview with Tony Foreman
We all have challenges recruiting and retaining talent. When we hire wrong or when we lose talent we thought was with us for the long haul, it sets us back. I recently sat down with Tony Foreman, who...
View ArticleLessons From Boston: Abell Foundation Report Compares Innovation Ecosystems
Courtesy Citybizlist – The Abell Foundation underwrote a comparison of Baltimore’s innovation ecosystem with that of Boston. Sean Pool and Matt Van Itallie, of Canterbury Road Partners, undertook the...
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