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The Top 10 Visionaries of Innovative Brands

Success

After earning an MBA from Stanford University, Knight teamed up with Bowerman in 1964 to create Blue Ribbon Sports. Miner died in 1994; Oates retired in 1996. The friends teamed up to build WhatsApp , launching it in 2009. Bill Bowerman, Knight’s legendary coach, was known for modifying his runners’ shoes to enhance performance.

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Linking Coworking and Innovation

Small Business Labs

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.   Their Idea Engineering Agency has created a process to make innovation leaner, faster, and effective for its members." Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research.

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

Small Business Labs

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team. She is overseeing the agency's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" program, designed to revive the processing, marketing and distribution networks that once made small farming viable but disintegrated in the last 30 years as U.S.

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team. My own experience: December '09, while everyone was getting laid off, I quit my job as executive creative director at a marketing agency and started a a network of media and marketing partners. instead of hiring full-time, permanent employees.

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