The New Entrepreneurial Leader: Developing Leaders Who Shape Social and Economic Opportunity

Danna Greenberg, Kate McKone-Sweet, and H. James Wilson

In years past, the keywords for entrepreneurs were confidence, single-minded purpose, and charge-ahead thinking. But in our vastly more complex globalized, networked, post-crash world this isn't enough. This game changing book details a new approach Entrepreneurial Thought and Action developed at Babson College, the number one school for entrepreneurship in the world.

Foreword Chapter 1: Entrepreneurial Leadership: Shaping Social and Economic Opportunity Part I: A New Way of Thinking and Acting: Developing Cognitive Ambidexterity Chapter 1: Cognitive Ambidexterity: The Underlying Mental Model of the Entrepreneurial Leader--Heidi Neck Chapter 2: Creation Logic in Innovation: From Action Learning to Expertise--Sebastian Fixson & Jay Rao Chapter 3: Prediction Logic: Analytics for Entrepreneurial Thinking--Tom Davenport & Julian Lange Part II: A New Worldview: Social, Environmental, and Economic Responsibility and Sustainability Chapter 4: SEERS: Definging Social, Environmental and Economic Responsibility and Sustainability Chapter 5: Beyond Green: Encouraging Students to Create a Simultaneity of Positive SEERS Outcomes--Toni Lester & Vikki L. Rodgers Chapter 6: Sustainability Metrics: Has the Time Arrived for Accountants to Embrace SEERS Reporting?--Janice Bell, Virginia Soybel, & Robert Turner Chapter 7: The Financial Challenge:Reconciling Social and Environmental Value with Shareholder Value--Richard Bliss Part III: Self and Social Awareness to Guide Action Chapter 8: Learning From and Leveraging Self-Awareness--James Hunt, Nan S. Langowitz, Keith Rollag, and Karen Hebert-Maccaro Chapter 9: Fostering Entrepreneurial Leaders’ Social Awareness--Stephen Deets & Lisa DiCarlo Chapter 10: Using Social Media Technology to Build and Engage Social Networks--PJ Guinan & Salvatore Parise Part IV: Management Educators as Entrepreneurial Leaders Chapter 11: A New Pedagogy for Teaching “Doing”: Preparing Entrepreneurial Leaders for Values-Driven Action Chapter 12: Curriculum-Wide Change: Leading Initiatives to Develop Entrepreneurial Leaders Acknowledgments Index About the Authors and Babson Faculty Contributors