{"id":58741,"date":"2014-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-host-speaker-on-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-march-27\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-host-speaker-on-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/uri-to-host-speaker-on-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to host speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship, March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 14, 2014 \u2013 Ralph Perfetto, co-founder of QualityMetric Inc. and Response Technologies Inc., will discuss his \u201cunanticipated entrepreneurial journey\u201d in a lecture on innovation and entrepreneurship at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on March 27. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHis lecture begins at 3 p.m. in Cherry Auditorium in the Kirk Center for Advanced Technology at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus.  The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tPerfetto will share the many lessons he has learned about the key factors that impact success, failure and the direction of one\u2019s professional career, including disruptive innovation, great timing, corporate flexibility, life-long learning and luck.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tPerfetto holds three degrees from 溏心vlog免费B站 and is currently a senior member of the Patient Insights Division of health care management company Optum, which is now the parent company of QualityMetric.  Previously he built Response Technologies into one of Inc. Magazine\u2019s \u201cTop 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHis lecture, sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering and the College of Business Administration, is part of the Anthony J. Risica Lecture Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which was established in 2003 with a generous gift from Anthony Risica, a 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering alumnus.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 14, 2014 \u2013 Ralph Perfetto, co-founder of QualityMetric Inc. and Response Technologies Inc., will discuss his \u201cunanticipated entrepreneurial journey\u201d in a lecture on innovation and entrepreneurship at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on March 27. &#13; His lecture begins at 3 p.m. in Cherry Auditorium in the Kirk Center for Advanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}