{"id":2400,"date":"2020-04-30T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2020-04-30T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:55:41","slug":"make-impact-consortium-partner-bill-aulet-featured-on-forbes-com-some-entrepreneurs-are-adapting-to-a-covid-19-world-others-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/make-impact-consortium-partner-bill-aulet-featured-on-forbes-com-some-entrepreneurs-are-adapting-to-a-covid-19-world-others-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Impact Consortium partner Bill Aulet featured on Forbes.com: &#8220;Some Entrepreneurs Are Adapting To A COVID-19 World. Others, Not So Much.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/elizabethmacbride\/2020\/04\/29\/some-entrepreneurs-are-adapting-to-a-covid-19-world-others-not-so-much\/#793a2ba61f53\">View Article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Elizabeth MacBride, Apr 29, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We celebrate, and possibly romanticize, entrepreneurs who stay steady  in a crisis, who stick to a strategy and vision through thick and thin.  But in a slow-rolling disaster like COVID-19, the qualities rising to  the fore are different. Entrepreneurs need to be able to quickly shift  strategies, and to recognize if it\u2019s time to let a vision go entirely.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I asked Bill Aulet, the managing director of the Martin Trust  Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, for ideas about what entrepreneurs  ought to be doing to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. What kinds of  functional behavior is he seeing, and what kind of dysfunctional  behavior?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aulet, a serial entrepreneur, is one of the MIT faculty&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mit.cbo.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">auctioning lunches<\/a>&nbsp;and Zoom meetings to benefit Cambridge charities for people affected by COVID-19. Others include&nbsp;Professor  Sandy Pentland, one of Forbes\u2019s \u201c7 most powerful data scientists in the  world,\u201d and former NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aulet is a well-known figure in the world of entrepreneurial education, and the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/elizabethmacbride\/2020\/04\/29\/some-entrepreneurs-are-adapting-to-a-covid-19-world-others-not-so-much\/#343da53f1f53\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Article By Elizabeth MacBride, Apr 29, 2020 We celebrate, and possibly romanticize, entrepreneurs who stay steady in a crisis, who stick to a strategy and vision through thick and thin. But in a slow-rolling disaster like COVID-19, the qualities rising to the fore are different. Entrepreneurs need to be able to quickly shift strategies, and to recognize if it\u2019s time to let a vision go entirely. I asked Bill Aulet, the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, for ideas about what entrepreneurs ought to be doing to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. What kinds of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeimpactconsortium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}