Entrepreneurship Interviews

Business Week

  • March 10, 2010 - "President Obama, Father-in-Chief?"
  • Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Patricia O'Connell talks with Tom Kuczmarski about values, boundaries between the personal and professional, and top-down vs. bottom-up leadership.

  • October 19, 2009 - "Remanufacturing America's Factory Sector"
  • Conventional wisdom says American manufacturing jobs are gone forever, outsourced to low-wage, low-regulation nations. Thomas D. Kuczmarski disagrees

  • March 9, 2009 - "An Innovation Action Plan for Obama"
  • Tom Kuczmarski details a plan President Obama must follow to get the U.S. back in the innovation game.

  • February 11, 2009 - "Obama Needs a Secretary of Innovation"
  • Tom Kuczmarski details the reasons for why now, more than ever, a new Cabinet position would help to sharpen the focus on the innovation needed in the U.S., and worldwide.

  • October 20, 2008 - "Innovation-Chicago Style"
  • BusinessWeek profiles the 10 winners of the 2008 Chicago Innovation Awards. The ceremony was hosted by Tom Kuczmarski and Dan Miller at the Goodman Theater.

  • September 28, 2007 - "Emerging Qualities of Leadership"
  • Business Week identifies Apples Are Square as making "an effective case for risk-taking within a framework of humanity."

Inc.

Chicago Sun-Times

  • October 22, 2007 - "2007 Chicago Innovation Awards"
  • Read the special feature in the Chicago Sun-Times profiling the 10 Award winners as well as coverage of this year's event.

WGN Radio

  • April 9, 2009 - "Conversation on Innovation"
  • Bob Sirott picks the brain of Tom Kuczmarski about the role of innovation in business and his work.

First Business

  • January 12, 2009 - "Secretary of Innovation"
  • Tom Kuczmarski offers insight on how the new president can harness the power of innovation..

  • August 6, 2007 - "Looking for Leaders"
  • Tom Kuczmarski looks at how creativity and innovation are taking businesses and shareholders to the next level.

  • February 15, 2007 - "Challenging Coca-Cola"
  • Tom Kuczmarski comments on Coke's misleading claims about its new Enviga product and how that false advertising might land Coke in court.

Business POV

PDMA Handbook for New Product Development

  • May 29, 2007 - "Service Development"
  • K&A experts offer their advice on the tools and processes company's need to achieve innovation goals.