But Marblehead resident Bob McNulty found an opportunity to change things when he brought together two groups of professors to take part in Bentley University's weeklong global ethics seminar as part of a business-for-peace initiative.

"What we are trying to do is to look at the issue not at the summit level but on the valley level," McNulty explained. "It was important to find people of high esteem who recognize the need to find peaceful means to work together to further the peace process."

Taking a break from a flurry of meetings held during the week, McNulty, the director of programs for the university's Center for Business Ethics, stopped to talk about the seminar with the academics whom he had brought in for the event, including Dr. Samir Abuznaid of Palestine, Israeli professors Eugene Jaffe and Liora Katzenstein, and Palestinian assistant professor Mohammed Bader.

Far away from their conflicting homelands, two Israeli and two Palestinian business professors met for the first time recently on American shores, even going as far as to share personal stories of success and struggles during a weeklong event that culminated with a party in Marblehead.

"What we are trying to do is to look at the issue not at the summit level but on the valley level," McNulty explained. "It was important to find people of high esteem who recognize the need to find peaceful means to work together to further the peace process."

Taking a break from a flurry of meetings held during the week, McNulty, the director of programs for the university's Center for Business Ethics, stopped to talk about the seminar with the academics whom he had brought in for the event, including Dr. Samir Abuznaid of Palestine, Israeli professors Eugene Jaffe and Liora Katzenstein, and Palestinian assistant professor Mohammed Bader.

Far away from their conflicting homelands, two Israeli and two Palestinian business professors met for the first time recently on American shores, even going as far as to share personal stories of success and struggles during a weeklong event that culminated with a party in Marblehead.

During the week, friendships developed between the professors, which, in their respective homelands, would be a rarity.

For more than six decades, Arabs and Israelis have been embroiled in a raging conflict that has no end in sight, one marked by failed government peace initiatives. The conflict has caused immense suffering for both groups of people. In many instances, Israelis and Palestinians stand in opposition to one another, rarely having the chance to come together.

But Marblehead resident Bob McNulty found an opportunity to change things when he brought together two groups of professors to take part in Bentley University's weeklong global ethics seminar as part of a business-for-peace initiative.

"What we are trying to do is to look at the issue not at the summit level but on the valley level," McNulty explained. "It was important to find people of high esteem who recognize the need to find peaceful means to work together to further the peace process."

Taking a break from a flurry of meetings held during the week, McNulty, the director of programs for the university's Center for Business Ethics, stopped to talk about the seminar with the academics whom he had brought in for the event, including Dr. Samir Abuznaid of Palestine, Israeli professors Eugene Jaffe and Liora Katzenstein, and Palestinian assistant professor Mohammed Bader.

Far away from their conflicting homelands, two Israeli and two Palestinian business professors met for the first time recently on American shores, even going as far as to share personal stories of success and struggles during a weeklong event that culminated with a party in Marblehead.

During the week, friendships developed between the professors, which, in their respective homelands, would be a rarity.

For more than six decades, Arabs and Israelis have been embroiled in a raging conflict that has no end in sight, one marked by failed government peace initiatives. The conflict has caused immense suffering for both groups of people. In many instances, Israelis and Palestinians stand in opposition to one another, rarely having the chance to come together.

But Marblehead resident Bob McNulty found an opportunity to change things when he brought together two groups of professors to take part in Bentley University's weeklong global ethics seminar as part of a business-for-peace initiative.

"What we are trying to do is to look at the issue not at the summit level but on the valley level," McNulty explained. "It was important to find people of high esteem who recognize the need to find peaceful means to work together to further the peace process."

Taking a break from a flurry of meetings held during the week, McNulty, the director of programs for the university's Center for Business Ethics, stopped to talk about the seminar with the academics whom he had brought in for the event, including Dr. Samir Abuznaid of Palestine, Israeli professors Eugene Jaffe and Liora Katzenstein, and Palestinian assistant professor Mohammed Bader.

Far away from their conflicting homelands, two Israeli and two Palestinian business professors met for the first time recently on American shores, even going as far as to share personal stories of success and struggles during a weeklong event that culminated with a party in Marblehead.

During the week, friendships developed between the professors, which, in their respective homelands, would be a rarity.

For more than six decades, Arabs and Israelis have been embroiled in a raging conflict that has no end in sight, one marked by failed government peace initiatives. The conflict has caused immense suffering for both groups of people. In many instances, Israelis and Palestinians stand in opposition to one another, rarely having the chance to come together.

During the week, friendships developed between the professors, which, in their respective homelands, would be a rarity.

For more than six decades, Arabs and Israelis have been embroiled in a raging conflict that has no end in sight, one marked by failed government peace initiatives. The conflict has caused immense suffering for both groups of people. In many instances, Israelis and Palestinians stand in opposition to one another, rarely having the chance to come together.

But Marblehead resident Bob McNulty found an opportunity to change things when he brought together two groups of professors to take part in Bentley University's weeklong global ethics seminar as part of a business-for-peace initiative.

BACKGROUND OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

This is the first volume (out of two) of the special issue of selected papers presented at the 8th Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange in Melbourne 2011 (AGSE IERE 2011)

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"Talent is universal, opportunity is not." 

The famous phrase, uttered recently by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, provided the starting point for Kogod's "Women Who Make Things Happen" event.

Co-sponsored by the American University Center for Israel Studies, the Kogod Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, the Oct. 27 panel highlighted the work of two female entrepreneurs doing their best to help others follow.

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This research is part of a three year longitudinal assessment of the CLICK2 not-for-profit organization located in Israel, with the purpose of developing a new creative business model that achieves sustainability and profitability. As well as doing just that, it also evolved into an unexpected, in depth study of human interaction and interpersonal relationships, with particular focus on the donor-enterprise partnership; the donor being a social entrepreneur.
Prior to this study CLICK was tired and frustrated with the continual dependence on dwindling government and municipal funding. Conventional funding strategies had been exhausted and did not provide a long term resolution for economic survival in a competitive environment. Many social service organizations consequently developed business strategies to initiate resources of new income generating avenues. Taking this in mind, CLICK secured funding and initiated the beginnings of an innovative business model. Conventional business approaches were employed, such as developing a marketing and business plan and using financial indicators to determine the fiscal viability of the venture.

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Motti Dermer is a software engineer. He created a start-up called ComItCom with two partners, and the aim of producing a product really needed for e-commerce. This is one of the many hundreds of start-ups that will most probably never be funded by venture capitalists. The difference is that Dermer knows this, and is doing something about it...

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The four visiting professors are:

• Professor Samir Ahmad Abuznaid, deputy governor of Hebron and vice president of Academic Affairs for Hebron University, Palestinian territories
• Professor Mohammed Bader, Head of the department of banking and finance, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem
• Professor Eugene D. Jaffe, head of MBA Programs at the School of Social Sciences and Management, Ruppin Academic Center and emeritus professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Bar-Ilan University, both in Israel.
• Professor Liora Katzenstein, president ISEMI, Entrepreneurship College, Israel

The Israeli and Palestinian scholars' participation in the program is part of the Business for Peace Initiative led by Robert E. McNulty, Ph. D., director of programs at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University and executive director of the nonprofit organization Applied Ethics, Inc., a non-profit organization whose Pax Populi program is dedicated to advancing people-to-people peacemaking...

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