<p>Before Joseph LiPuma became the Director of EMLYON Business School's International MBA Program, he was a serial entrepreneur in the IT and tech industries.</p><p>He worked at Lotus Software, later acquired by IBM, and was tasked with launching the Boston-based business in the UK. It was while sitting on the living room floor with his managing director, coming up with a plan from scratch, that Joe had a real taste of entrepreneurship.</p><p>"I had to transfer staff from Boston to London, hire engineers, marketers and directors," he told BusinessBecause. "It was very much starting from nothing. The whole process was taking an existing company from the US and turning it into a new company in the UK. We had to start from scratch."</p><p>So when Joe took over operations of the International MBA Program at EMLYON in France, he had a clear idea of what MBAs needed to succeed in international entrepreneurship. He is not just an entrepreneur but a scholar, too.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessbecause.com/news/mba-entrepreneurs/2277/business-schools-help-mba-entrepreneurs-go-global">Keep reading...</a></p>