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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The transportation industry, and the shift to renewable energy, is ripe with opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators who yearn to help shape a more sustainable future and boost their own Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Oksana Gerwe and Dominique Houde
The rapid advancement of generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and others represents an exciting new frontier for enhancing human creativity. As these technologies gain capabilities once Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Judy Rady and David Townsend
In popular culture, the portrayal of family businesses in movies and TV shows, such as Ridley Scott’s "House of Gucci" or HBO’s "Succession," often revolves around the pursuit of wealth and the Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Anneleen Michiels
Succession is the biggest threat to the robust returns of family business ownership . If you don’t master the three perilous stages of transition, you risk damaging your family business and legacy. Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Ryan Renteria
For startups and entrepreneur-led businesses, purpose is an outcome of an iterative sensemaking process. Sensemaking is the underappreciated strategic activity of making sense of what is going Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Kevin Fee
Professors April Spivack and Michael Morris integrated operating leverage as a component of a firm’s economic input when describing their Entrepreneur’s Profit Model . Operating Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Phil Greenwood
Have you heard this before? “If it wasn’t for my in-laws, our family would be fine!” Such frustrated statements are typically followed by rants about how someone spends too lavishly, does not Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Torsten Pieper
Most significant wealth is created through entrepreneurship, and in many countries family business plays a large role. But once the family business is established and successful, what further Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: David Werdiger
From small shops to large multinational corporations, family-owned firms are the anchoring organization in our society. They are pervasive, expanding, and a core employer of human capital and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: R. Adam Smith
Meet Jean-Paul Nageri, the son to a banana farmer in Uganda. During the early-2020 harvest, JP's dad planned to use a middleman for distribution, but the deal fell through, leaving him with one acre Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Margaret Ntambi and Ona Aliakai