Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Wins, Losses and Crucial Lessons on Building Great Companies

N. Louis Shipley is a former three-time software CEO and Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. He previously lectured at MIT Sloan School of Management. Shipley serves as a Board Director at Wasabi Technologies, Fairmarkit and CustomerGauge. Lou made the founding gift to the Trinity College Entrepreneurship Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

Patricia Favreau joined the Media Relations Department at MIT Sloan School of Management in 2005. For more than 20 years she has broken down complex academic research to make it accessible to business audiences around the globe. She began her career as a news correspondent and holds an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University.