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Ireland – Day 7 (teams)

The business students working with Startup Ireland are learning a lot about business, startups, Ireland, policy, economics, culture, leadership, team dynamics, alignment, expectations...   (more…)
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Ireland – Day 6 (commercialization)

One of the MBA teams is working with Nuritas in Dun Laoghaire, and I had the privilege of meeting the founder, Dr. Nora Khaldi, and the CEO, Emmet Browne. Nora's vision is nothing...
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Ireland – Day 5 (connections)

We met with Kate Tyrell and Ruaidhrí Dowling from the Anglo-Irish Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Iveagh House.  We lucked out once again in that our visit...
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Ireland – Day 4 (wisdom)

We were in the classroom today with 5 amazing speakers and a special lunch guest: (more…)
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Ireland – Day (off) 3

I wasn't so sure about driving across the country and back in one day - 7 total hours driving on the wrong side of the road, but boy am I...
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Ireland – Day 2

Today was mostly a free day for the students.  We started off with an early tour of Kilmainham Gaol (jail), which helps the students understand the last 100 years of Irish...
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Welcome to Ireland – 2015!

Here we are in Dublin at Trinity College starting our two-week course on Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Ireland!  We've got a great group this year - 7 MBA students, 6 business...
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Ireland Retreat

Based on the success of traveling to Ireland and meeting with leaders since 2011, we're planning a retreat on Leadership & International Business for C-level Executives from June 6-13, 2015.  Denver's...
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Ireland Course Finale

This year's students performed extraordinarily well working with five different start-up organization in Dublin this summer. (more…)
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Final thoughts on the latest visit to Ireland

I am somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean reflecting on the two-week course we just ran for University of Colorado Denver business students in Ireland. I was listening to two songs...
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