A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 5)

SM: It sounds as though you are getting the home schooling market. RP: We do, but not as many as you would think. A lot of times the home schooling market wants religion embedded in their courses, and our programs are a little more secular than that. That being said, one out of every four or five

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A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 4)

SM: How many not-for-profit entities are there out there that are building upon your technologies? RP: There are now 40 of them.

A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 3)

SM: Can you tell me more about the content you developed? RP: It is highly interactive and very rigorous. It is very high quality. We thought through everything a child should know from kindergarten to 12th grade to prepare him or her for anything they want to be in this world.

A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 2)

SM: Basically, you make it possible for parents to enroll their children in an online school? RP: Correct. It is a K-12, full-time online school.

A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 1)

Ron Packard was previously a vice president of Knowledge Universe investing, incubating, and operating several charter school companies. Previously, Ron worked for both McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs. He holds a B.A. in economics and mechanical engineering (with honors) from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds an M.B.A. (with honors) from the

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Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 7)

SM: I have been on a lot of campuses lately and talked with a lot of young people. There is a trend I am seeing which did not exist when I was in school. People are not doing things based on their passions as much, and they are now doing them for money. People have

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Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 6)

SM: How do you tie in your basic research with business unit involvement? Applied research does not typically result in a market-ready product. PB: Researchers build prototypes, not products. Within HP Labs we have set up a process by which a small number of projects every year receive additional funding, incubation funding, to take it

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Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 5)

SM: How does your approach differ from what other companies have done in the past? PB: Companies have traditionally funded academic work in the past. In those scenarios the professors would set their own research agendas. Professors would pitch to HP or IBM what they wanted to do. Our variation is that we do not

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