Daniel Isenberg World Economic Forum 2013 (cropped)

Daniel Isenberg is a Professor of Entrepreneurship Practice at

Babson College Babson College is a private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Established in 1919, its central focus is on entrepreneurship education. It was founded by Roger W. Babson as an all-male business institute, but became coeducational i ...

Executive Education where he established the Babson

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem An entrepreneurial ecosystems or entrepreneurship ecosystems are peculiar systems of interdependent actors and relations directly or indirectly supporting the creation and growth of new ventures. The ecosystem metaphor "Ecosystem" refers to the el ...

Project (BEEP). He is the author of the book ''Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value'' (

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, 2013). Isenberg was an entrepreneur himself for 16 years and was also a

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ist. He is an

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in several ventures.

Career

In 1981 Isenberg was awarded his Ph.D in

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from

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. Isenberg taught at the

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from 1981-1987 in the

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unit and from 2005-2009 in the Entrepreneurial Management unit. Isenberg designed and led HBS’s new India and Israel International Immersion Programs on

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

. He has been a visiting or adjunct professor at Babson College, Columbia,

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

, Reykjavik, and the Technion. At Technion he created and taught the first graduate course in entrepreneurship in 1987-1989, co-founded the Tefen Entrepreneurs Program with Stef Wertheimer, and directed the Technion Entrepreneurial Associates with Professor Ed Roberts from

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

. Isenberg wrote ''Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value'' published by Harvard Business Press (2013). At the

Entrepreneurial Management unit, Isenberg published over three dozen cases on entrepreneurship, as well as numerous seminal articles in the

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, including ''The Global Entrepreneur'' (2008), ''Entrepreneurs and the Cult of Failure'' (2011) and ''How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution'' (2010). He writes a blog for the ''

'' and also blogs for ''

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'', ''

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, and ''

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''.

Business leadership

In 1990 Isenberg founded Triangle Technologies in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, which he ran as

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until 2005. He helped established two

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s and from 1997-2001 Isenberg was a general partner at

Jerusalem Venture Partners Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an international Venture capital in Israel, venture capital firm founded in 1993. The fund specializes in investments in Startup company, startup companies, focusing on digital media, enterprise software, semic ...

, and since has personally invested in over a dozen startup ventures, including Cyota and My Basis, both of which were acquired.

References

External links

Harvard Business Review blog
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