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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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Education and Teaching
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
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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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
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
They're sensitive, easily disrupted and conflict-prone. Author Doug Baumoel discusses why they must innovate nonetheless.
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Interviews
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Confidentiality Agreements Promote Candor in Family Business Classes
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
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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Investing for a Better World: A Conversation with Justin Rockefeller
A fifth-generation Rockefeller shares insights about how entrepreneurs and businesses can align investment and values.
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Interviews
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Let's Get Professional: Family Firms Need HRM Practices
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?
"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
Joe Brito shares the management tips that made his four-generation Rhode Island-based construction firm so successful.
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Commentary
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Kimberly Eddleston
What it Takes to Build a Four-Generation Business
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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Applied and Practice
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Trust Me: I'm a Salesman
A former police offer had to learn to sell when he became an entrepreneur.
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Commentary
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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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Commentary
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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
Fickle customers, tricky finances -- how a popular Rhode Island tavern meets the industry's key challenges.
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Commentary
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