By creating a highly interactive, intimate venue for networking, storytelling, and problem solving, the Institute offers a safe, stimulating environment for hundreds of for-profit and not-for-profit entrepreneurs to learn about financing, marketing, organizational challenges, finding personal balance, managing change, and the many other areas that are fundamental to growing a business. The “case” method approach ensures a practical and grounded real world experience. Participants take home a wealth of pragmatic and useful ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to work in their expanding enterprises.