Archive of the category: "Research"
Kosta providing a Human Right: Internet Access to the Entire World
Currently, 4 out of 5 people in the world do not have internet access. Kosta Grammatis plans to change that. Through A Human Right, the Global Internet Access Initiative, this Sandboxer has made it his mission to provide free internet access to 5 billion people. He has already shown his ability to execute on astounding [...]
Weekly inspiration #35: Corporate culture of the future
“In my dream job I’ll have day-to-day variety, I’ll see ideas become reality, I’ll work with great people, and I’ll have tangible impact on the success of interesting projects.” Over the past two years, we have been observing members of the Sandbox community, the jobs they choose, the way they work, the companies they start. [...]
Weekly inspiration #20: What was and what will be
So the year 2009 is over and with it the first decade of the new millennium. A perfect moment to look back and ahead to assess what was and what will be. We already did this for Sandbox with our Year in Review and Roadmap for 2010 blog posts. But of course, it’s not just [...]
Oriental Night at Kenza
25 Sandboxers, potential members, and some special guests met at London’s Kenza Restaurant to celebrate an oriental night around good food and brilliant people. The topics were wide-spread, as it were the people. Fraser Doherty, Global Student Entrepreneur 2007, gave interesting insights into “storytelling”, a topic which was curiously debated by both practitioners and academics [...]
The newsletter for May: Innovation in air travel & Dinners everywhere
We just sent out our newsletter for Mai. In the first section, fellow Sandboxer Simon Rohrbach takes a look at developments in the aviation industry. We give you a short update on what has been going on at Sandbox in the last months, and you’ll find our usual “interesting stuff we came across” section at the end. Reading time is about 10 minutes.
Follow-up from Entreprenörsdagen in Göteborg
Photo by Martin Stenmark, Sweden I had the great pleasure to speak at the Entreprenörsdagen last Monday in Göteborg, Sweden, about Generation Y Entrepreneurs and their ways of doing business. I met so many exciting people in Sweden and will publish some of the video interviews I made in the next couple of days and [...]
A MISMATCH PROBLEM?
Organizing a conference might not be the core business of a magazine. But it seems to work very well for the New Yorker who recently organized its second annual conference. Now the videos are online, and the introduction by Malcolm Gladwell is definitively worth a look (The video is here, unfortunately, it can’t be embedded). [...]
IDENTIFY AND CONNECT THE TALENTS
“The need to identify, develop and connect talent has never been more critical.” This quote is from IBM’s Global Human Capital Study 2008 (you can download the full version after registering here). The study, for which 400 human resource executives all over the world have been interviewed, identifies four key challenges for managing human capital [...]
“TALENT IS THE NEW OIL”
Sandbox is all about identifying and bringing together young talents. While setting up a global talent initiative, we have observed that it becomes increasingly important for businesses to attract and retain the best talents. This view has recently been supported by an extensive study carried out by Heidrick and Struggles, one of the leaders in [...]
