Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

Food Security through the Lens of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

7/19/17 – This blog post is written by students in the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise MBA program at Colorado State University who have founded FarmRise to address the challenge of food security in Kenya. Albert Einstein might as well … Continue reading →

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GSSE MBA Students Win Business Design Competition

Posted on March 17, 2017 by

Did you catch the news? Even Business Wire and Yahoo Finance picked up the story about how our GSSE students won $10k in a business design competition to figure out how to get millennials to save for healthcare and retirement. … Continue reading →

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GSSE Venture Prepares to Scale Up Solar Business in Peru

Posted on December 21, 2016 by

12/21/16 – The Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise MBA program has been educating entrepreneurs since 2007 at Colorado State University. In our very first cohort, a team of students started PowerMundo, which continues distributing off-grid clean energy products in Peru. … Continue reading →

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Saving the Best for Last: Improving the Quality of Life for the Elderly

Posted on July 20, 2016 by

7/20/16 – This guest post is written by three students in the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise MBA program who are working on finding ways to improve the quality of life for the elderly. Please join Nick, Shorouk, and Labeat … Continue reading →

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Recycling Carbon Fiber: From Waste to Additive

Posted on July 7, 2016 by

7/7/16 – This post is written by four students in the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise MBA who are exploring business opportunities associated with waste streams and overconsumption. To start, they have been partnering with Vartega Carbon Fiber Recyling LLC, … Continue reading →

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Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle the Tanzanian Way

Posted on July 5, 2016 by

7/5/16 – This post is written by a team of students in the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise MBA program spending their summer conducting market research in Tanzania. Their goal: understand the waste problems and housing issues, the related supply … Continue reading →

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Summer Sun and Excitement in the Caribbean: Cultivating Youth Employment Opportunities

Posted on June 14, 2016 by

6/14/16 – This guest post is written by team CaribSource, who are working in the Caribbean to find solutions to the high rates of youth unemployment in the region. They are conducting primary research in St. Lucia, Jamaica, and Trinidad … Continue reading →

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Chaka Fibers: Finding Markets for Alpaca Fiber in the Altitude of the Andes

Posted on July 27, 2015 by

7/27/15 – This guest post is written by three students in the Global, Social and Sustainable Enterprise MBA program at Colorado State University, who are co-founders of Chaka Fibers. Chaka is working this summer in Peru, getting to know the … Continue reading →

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How Biogas is Improving Lives in Ethiopia: Focus on the Customer

Posted on July 21, 2015 by

7/21/15 – This guest post is written by three GSSE MBA students who envision an entrepreneurial future involving biogas.  This summer, they are partnering with the Ethiopian branch of the social business (B)energy.  Biogas is a clean-burning cooking fuel generated … Continue reading →

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What’s your purpose?

Posted on November 26, 2014 by

From the editor: Meet Bob Taber, Executive Director of Branding and Communications for the College of Business at CSU. He’s a veteran of national advertising agencies in New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Denver. In today’s blog post, he shares … Continue reading →

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