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Kimberly Eddleston
Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship / D'Amore-McKim School of Business / Northeastern University
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How many professors can say that students talk about what they learned in their class during a job interview? Or that their students routinely save small businesses from the brink of bankruptcy?
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For entrepreneurs, doing business with friends can be perilous.
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His key ingredients: Learn from others. Listen to customers. Hug your employees.
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Here's what happened when Boston-area restaurant owner “Lakis” Vlahoulis let students into the kitchen.
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Poornima Vijayashanker discusses how she turned her blog into a thriving business, and why entrepreneurs must be coachable.
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This exercise helps entrepreneurship students understand the importance of retooling products to reach new markets.
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Real-Life Drama: Creating a TV Series Based on a Family Business
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From the "director's chair," students illustrate the challenges of the family firm, and what makes a good one.
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Education and Teaching
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How entrepreneurs can test the waters before they roll out a new venture.
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In an era when customers are always ready to bolt, here's how Best Buy keeps them coming back.
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Applied and Practice
The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses
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As the Corleones and many other family firms have learned, bad-apple relatives can wreak havoc. How to deal with your "Fredo."
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Applied and Practice
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Why Family Firms Are Like Jenga
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They're sensitive, easily disrupted and conflict-prone. Author Doug Baumoel discusses why they must innovate nonetheless.
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Confidentiality Agreements Promote Candor in Family Business Classes
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For students to share their own good and bad family experiences in a family business class, confidentiality is essential.
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Education and Teaching
Being Female Affects Business Loans from Family and Friends
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A new study shows that women entrepreneurs have a harder time getting financing not only from banks, but also from friends and family.
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Theory and Research
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Kimberly Eddleston
Investing for a Better World: A Conversation with Justin Rockefeller
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A fifth-generation Rockefeller shares insights about how entrepreneurs and businesses can align investment and values.
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Let's Get Professional: Family Firms Need HRM Practices
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Family business members and students can learn how professional human resources practices can minimize issues.
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Education and Teaching
How Can the Family Business Cope When a Key Non-family Exec Leaves?
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"But he was like family!" What one firm learned from an unexpected and devastating departure.
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Education and Teaching
'There's No Birthright' and Other Tips for Raising Entrepreneurial Leaders
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Joe Brito shares the management tips that made his four-generation Rhode Island-based construction firm so successful.
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Kimberly Eddleston
What it Takes to Build a Four-Generation Business
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From a single bulldozer in the 1950s, this top Rhode Island construction firm has thrived by adhering to its founder's core values.
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Trust Me: I'm a Salesman
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A former police offer had to learn to sell when he became an entrepreneur.
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A former policeman talks about the challenge of launching his own company selling professional-quality artisanal knives.
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A 2016 University of Alabama Study concluded that women with a benign touch of psychopathy (callousness, ability to put aside emotions to do a tough job, not afraid to buck gender norms) are more
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Women Entrepreneurs are growing in number, but much more needs to be done to support them and prepare future generations.
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Tavern Has the Recipe for Appeal and Profitability
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Fickle customers, tricky finances -- how a popular Rhode Island tavern meets the industry's key challenges.
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The #MeToo era has created new challenges for entrepreneurs and startups. Cautionary tales abound of startups whose hard-partying culture resulted in sexual harassment, hostile work environments and
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The 5 Money Mistakes That Blindside Entrepreneurs
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Too many families underestimate the business's impact on their personal finances and don't plan for the future.
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Women have become a powerful part of the global economy, but many college and university entrepreneurship programs are not attracting them. In this interview with EIX's Kim Eddleston, professors
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Yad, an eFest2019 finalist company, has a social mission at its heart: it aims to help Guatemalan artisans with special needs express themselves through art, and then find retailers who can help
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Vulnerable women living in Colombia are earning money and improving their lives through jewelry-making, thanks to Artyfactos. The company has found markets for the women's creations in the US and
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Trust Your Mentors, and Your Gut
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The founder of Made Organics encourages entrepreneurs to balance advice from mentors and their own vision.
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Many women who want to grow their businesses get in their own way because of how they see themselves. Here's how they can stop selling themselves short.
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Applied and Practice
Family Business Experts: How to Survive the Holidays Intact
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Holiday gatherings can be fraught with resentment. Advice from the experts and "Bob's Burgers."
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Kimberly Eddleston
Encouraging Family Business Members to Go the Extra Mile
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Tight control or adaptability and collaboration? A hybrid of both approaches motivates best.
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Becoming the Boss: Advice for Women in Family Businesses
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More women are taking over their family business from a man, but they're still seen as the wife, daughter, sister or niece rather than the boss.
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Northeastern University Professor Stephen L. Golden discusses five mistakes that innovators and companies make that can doom a new product.
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Many blockbuster products and companies have started with people who were not engineers, scientists or coders. Fortunately, today they can easily get help developing their product.
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Family Business Professors: Resources For Online Learning
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Many professors are revising their courses for remote learning. Check out our free and peer-reviewed resources that can easily be used in an online course.
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Professors Share Tips for Moving Online
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As classrooms close, teachers are moving classes online. Here are some tips from those who've made the transition.
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Faculty and students around the world are making a huge transition. Using the right technology and supporting students will be critical. Here's some advice from professors who've learned what works.
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More Advice for Engaging Students Online
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Now that you (successfully) moved your course online, this followup article offers more activities and techniques to incorporate.
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Kimberly Eddleston
What Family Businesses Should be Doing Now
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Threats to survival can push family businesses to reassess strengths and weaknesses, look for opportunities and challenges coming their way, and unite behind a challenge.
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Applied and Practice
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Kimberly Eddleston
Be Part of An Important Survey About Coping With Covid-19
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We have a unique opportunity to learn from one another and generate new knowledge that will last generations. We need your help!
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It's possible to start a business while working for someone else, and it can even make you look better to your current boss. But the risks can be great, too. A successful "sidepreneur" shares her secrets.
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Women Can Cultivate a Leadership Presence
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"Gravitas" is a personal attribute that helps women carry themselves like leaders and helps others perceive them that way. It doesn't come naturally.
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Colleges and universities everywhere are grappling with how to teach in fall of 2020: online only, on campus or a hybrid. These articles will help entrepreneurship educators be prepared for whatever happens.
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Family Members Can be Valuable Mentors
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Entrepreneur, philanthropist and author Simran Mohinani has great role models among her family members. She talks about balancing the family and mentor relationships and offers advice for future family business leaders and women.
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling in a Family Business
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Despite decades of striving and some progress, women still face challenges. Outdated ideas about primogeniture and a woman's rightful place have not yet gone away, and women still feel too much pressure to prove themselves.
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Daughters prepare to lead family firms
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Daughters are increasingly assuming leadership roles at family firms. In this video, two future business leaders talk about family expectations, their worries, their hopes for the future and the importance of knowing their value.
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Many smart and talented military spouses are becoming entrepreneurs, a path that allows them to thrive professionally even when they can't stay in one place.
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With a vaccine on the way, we feel the best advice for 2021 is to focus on what comes next. These articles from the past year can inform your game plan for the post-Covid world that will dawn in a few months.
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Team Exercise: How Parenting Styles Affect The Next Generation
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This experiential exercise is designed to enhance student learning about the four parenting styles and how they affect the dynamics within the family firm.
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Education and Teaching
Listen to the Experts: How Family Firms are Surviving the Pandemic
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While some family businesses have closed their doors forever, others have successfully pivoted their business. Four experts discuss what they did right.
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Family Firms Can Optimize Women's Strengths
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Women often juggle many roles in the business and the family, and typically shun the idea of power because they associate it with dictators and manipulation.
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Female Advisors Can Help Family Businesses
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Women advisors can contribute unique perspectives that often emphasize synergies between the family and business.
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No a**hole rule by Robert Sutton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS2GBq5lKAUThis video offers an overview of Robert Sutton's Harvard Business Review article and book titled: "The No A**hole Rule." It reminds us about the need to be civil in the workplace and not to tolerate bad behavior. From an entrepreneurship standpoint, it highlights the need for good leadership and the importance of creating an organizational environment that brings out the best in people.
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