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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 Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
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
Joe Brito, the third-generation head of C.B. Utility Co. in Bristol, Rhode Island, started his career in the family business as a laborer. He firmly believes that anybody entering their family Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Professor David Teece is one of the impactful business scholars of his generation. His research has been cited over 128,474 times according to Google Scholar. His work is required reading for Ph.D. Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Jon Eckhardt
Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: James Beal
Perhaps no other family is more synonymous with both capitalism and philanthropy than the Rockefellers. The family ’s fortunes in oil have made it possible for them to invest in initiatives that Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
The Theory of Change is a tool that is widely used among social entrepreneurship (SE) practitioners to map out the steps that will lead them to have the intended positive change on society. The Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Sophie Bacq
Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry. But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl
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
Arguably, no CEO anywhere doesn’t occasionally wish that he or she didn’t have to deal with a board of directors. You’re the CEO! The visionary leader! This is your baby, and you and your Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Kathleen Allen