Over the combined 20 years that N. Louis “Lou” Shipley has taught in the entrepreneurship units at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, he’s mentored and advised thousands of MBAs and alumni on how to sell their start-ups’ products and how best to scale and grow their companies. He is the former CEO of Black Duck Software, Turbonomic, and Reflectent Software and has experienced entrepreneurship from multiple perspectives: start-up employee, sales leader, manager, investor, advisor, and board member. In 2023, he co-founded the Trinity College Entrepreneurship Center. His articles have been published in Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children.
For the past two decades Patricia Favreau has worked in the Media Relations Department at the MIT Sloan School of Management where she dissects complex academic re-search for business audiences around the globe. Among her responsibilities, she regularly promotes MBA start-ups and entrepreneurial initiatives. Prior to MIT Sloan, she served as a senior publicist at WGBH Channel 2 Boston. She began her career as a news correspondent for the Sentinel & Enterprise and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette where she wrote her earliest ...
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