George Gendron:

George Gendron is the founder and executive director of Clark University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship program, one of only four university-wide entrepreneurship centers in the country, which is designed and built from the ground-up for undergraduate liberal arts, humanities, social science and business students. Gendron brings more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and background, transferring his knowledge to Clark’s young innovators through his courses in entrepreneurship and innovation in the undergraduate school as well as in the MBA program at the Graduate School of Management. Previously, as editor-in-chief of Inc. magazine for two decades, Gendron guided the publication from a start-up through its sale to Bertelsmann, the $20 billion media company. Under his direction, Inc. became the world’s premiere business magazine for the founders and CEOs of small- to mid-sized growing businesses. During Gendron’s leadership, the magazine developed the Inc. 500, a ranking of America’s fastest-growing private companies, which quickly became a brand in its own right by identifying many of the world’s leading entrepreneurial organizations when they were still in their infancy and virtually unknown--companies such as Microsoft, Patagonia, Timberland, Charles Schwab and countless others. During this time, he also created the “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards together with Ernst & Young and co-authored Inc.’s best-selling video, “How to Really Start Your Own Business,” which won the American Film Institute Award for outstanding business and economic programming. In 1997, Gendron created a joint venture with Michael Porter, of the Harvard Business School, to publish the Inner City 100, a ranking of the fastest-growing companies in America’s inner cities. This list has played a major role in focusing public attention on the role of entrepreneurship in creating jobs and wealth in America’s most economically distressed urban areas. Gendron is at work on a book titled “The Art of the New,” designed to demystify entrepreneurship and innovation. The book will synthesize Gendron’s 20 years of documenting the rise of many of the world’s leading entrepreneurial organizations, and explore the process of transforming an idea into something tangible, in business, the non-profit community-service sector, the arts, education and government.

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