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Steve Whitney’s Game-Changing Year: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration and Education
For Steve Whitney, 2023 was the right time for a reset. As the owner of Sit. Stay. Forever, a Maine-based company that makes safe and sustainable...
Entrepreneurial Diversity in the Construction Sector: Challenges and Opportunities
As part of Northeastern’s recent Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Lab co-sponsored a webinar titled Entrepreneurial Diversity in the Construction...
Taking the pulse of procurement professionals in higher education: preliminary findings
Over the past six months, the Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship has conducted research to gain a better understanding of the state of...
Takeaways from 2023 NAEP New England Annual Conference and Expo
This year’s National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP) New England Conference took place in Newport, RI, from October 22 – 25, 2023. The...
How Diverse Suppliers Can Develop the Right Mindset for Success
Over the past six months, the Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship has focused on translating research findings into actions to promote supplier...
What’s a Diverse Supplier Chatbot?
How can generative AI help diverse small businesses learn about the procurement process in higher education? A team of CPS graduate students is...
Key Insights from Supplier.io’s 2023 Supplier Diversity Benchmarking Report for Higher Education
Supplier diversity has emerged as one of the important initiatives in both public- and private-sector procurement. It seeks to promote equitable...
7 Steps to Infuse a Supplier Diversity Culture in Colleges and Universities
The theme of the 2023 Symposium on Supplier Diversity in Higher Education was "Translating Words into Action." After Northeastern Lab for Inclusive...
From Classroom to Cutting-Edge: A Student Team’s Contributions to Tatum Robotics’ Breakthrough Technology
A major focus of the Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship's work is providing assistance to small businesses in Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode...
How Supplier Diversity Webpages Can Open the Window to Opportunity
The Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship recently hosted a webinar to discuss the Lab’s recent research report, “Addressing the Supplier...
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