Applied and Practice

An Applied and Practice article provides actionable ideas about how to start, manage, grow or fund a new venture. It should be written to appeal to entrepreneurs, managers, students, policymakers and other players.  Its emphasis should be providing skills, insights and knowledge to help readers achieve success. 

Length: <3,000 words

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Encouraging and Supporting Minority Entrepreneurship for Long-Term Success

Entrepreneurs and their ventures have a huge impact on the social, political and most of all economic well-being (Light & Rosenstein, 1995) of communities, cities and countries around the world, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Ozlem Ogutveren Gonul

When entrepreneurs raise entrepreneurs

Family businesses are the backbone of many economies. However, many potential successors of family businesses decide not to join the family business at first, but to become entrepreneurs themselves. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Larissa Leitner

How Entrepreneurial Legends, Heroes and Meccas are Born

Entrepreneurship history is filled with events, places and people who are now legendary or even sacred. In the beginning of the 20th century, New York’s Lower East Side became a place where Jewish Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Stephen Lippmann

How Family Business Leaders Can Encourage Both Devotion and Performance

Family businesses have unique strengths and unique problems because they blend two identities -- "family" and "business" -- whose priorities are often at odds. While the family identity nurtures Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Roland Kidwell and Kathryn Kloepfer

The Entrepreneur's Profit Model: A Diagnostic Tool

Entrepreneurs usually understand that profit is important. But many are less consciously aware of the actual model by which they will (or will not) make money in their ventures. Many have a gut feel, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Michael Morris and April Spivack

The Perils of Seeking Financing at the Wrong Time

The timing of external funding for a new venture can have dramatic impact on its survival and success. In the case of equity financing (i.e., preferred and/or common stock), seeking funding before Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

Investing in Capabilities and Reputation Pays Off for VC Firms

New venture capital firms must make a variety of strategic decisions about market positioning and relationships with the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. One choice VC firms must make is whether to Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: David Hsu

How Strategy and Industry Should Shape Your Choice of Co-Founders

Entrepreneurs who want to turn a great idea into a thriving business inevitably need a team that can make it happen. What increases their odds of a successful venture: hiring mainly technical experts Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Charles Eesley , Edward Roberts and David Hsu

The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses

The Corleones of "Godfather" fame are an extreme example of a “family business.” But like many family businesses, they have a family member who is a serious hindrance to their business, is less Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Science Parks Connect Entrepreneurs and Public Resources in Emerging Economies

Unlike the US, most developing countries lack the regulatory and financial infrastructure needed to help promote entrepreneurship. Private resources such as venture capitalists, angel investors and Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Charles Eesley