Optimism for Bulgaria

ABLE Activator takes an unconventional approach to teaching entrepreneurship.

Life in 1990s Bulgaria wasn’t easy but made the family fall in love. They are back 30 years later.

Hristo Boyadzhiev wants to help Bulgarians work together, no matter where they live.

ABF will double every new donation made to the university by AUBG alumni between now and June 30, 2020, up to half a million US dollars.

“This way [through technology], Bulgarians abroad could become involved in Bulgarian life. Everyone can give back to their country, even if they don’t actually move there,” she says.

We have to fight for the smaller firms to come here, and parallel to that, we have to fight to build our own big, successful firms, local firms.

An author and professor of business strategy and entrepreneurship, Veneta studies the role of Bulgarian communities abroad in the economic development of their birth country.

Humility, honesty, integrity—these qualities were nurtured in a family of grain entrepreneurs in small-town Ohio.

A trailblazer in the truest sense of the word, she’s been the only woman, or one of a handful, in classrooms, newsrooms, and boardrooms.