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SmartBrief welcomed association partners to its office Wednesday to join in an interactive workshop on encouraging entrepreneurship in an organization. The session was led by Babson College President Len Schlesinger and entrepreneurial-studies professor Heidi Neck.

Executives at trade associations, corporations, nonprofits and other large organizations are looking to increase the pace and quality of employees’ innovation, Schlesinger says.[…] Continue Reading »

For a couple of weeks recently, all journalists seemingly stopped writing about anything that wasn’t related to Marissa Mayer, Yahoo or telecommuting. The media’s largely moved on to other concerns, but the issue of telecommuting — and how to make it work at your business — remains.

We’ve already called in the experts on the importance of policies, communication and culture in setting a work-from-home standard.[…] Continue Reading »

Yahoo and CEO Marissa Mayer have made up their minds on telecommuting, but your company may be debating whether to allow it. Or, perhaps, your company does allow work from home but would like to improve the process.

What should you be assessing? What are the perils and benefits? What role does your company culture play in success or failure?[…] Continue Reading »

SmartBrief publishes scores of daily and nondaily e-mail newsletters across dozens of industries, and each year, we highlight industry thought leaders in select publications as part of our “Best Of” reports.

You may have noticed a number of these Q-and-A interviews on the SmartBlogs network this past week but didn’t get a chance to read them all.[…] Continue Reading »

Being a SmartBrief editor is pretty great. Every day, I get to say: “Hey, have you heard about all this awesome stuff?” to thousands of people. It’s an amazing amount of fun to go digging for the best social media news stories — and it’s a privilege to get to share those stories with some of the brightest minds in social media and have them send me their thoughts in return.[…] Continue Reading »