Article: `STREETWISE MBA' PROGRAM HELPS SMALL-BUSINESS OWNERS ADVANCE

Glynn Lloyd built City Fresh Foods Inc. into a business with $2 million in annual sales over the course of a dozen years. But when he sought to take his ethnic catering service to the next level, he didn't know where to begin.

Lloyd, 38, found the answer at Inner City Entrepreneurs, a program founded by Boston University professor Dan Monti and Andrew Wolk, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, who call their nine-month program "a streetwise MBA."

"If there is one thing inner-city neighborhoods need is more businesses, not more nonprofits," Monti said. "They need folks who will create wealth and then assume a broader set of obligations in the community."

Monti and Lloyd ...

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