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This classroom exercise encourages students to practice connecting concepts, products or services that they would not normally consider combining. It is a straightforward and stimulating exercise Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Dan Holland
EDITOR’S NOTE: Doris Korda spent more than a decade at Bell Labs and in several corporate ventures, one of which became a billion dollar software business. She made the switch to education 22 years Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Catherine Buday
The demand for family business education is soaring around the globe, and several higher education institutions are introducing new courses and programs that focus on this dominant type of business Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar
The University of Minnesota MIN-Corps is one of about 100 sites of the National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which began with great fanfare in 2011 (1) . The Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Carla Pavone
Hiring, training, appraising and compensating the right people in the right way is a crucial element to the success of any organization. It is commonly assumed that many growing family firms are not Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Roland Kidwell
To learn more about eFest 2020, EIX's competition for undergraduate business ideas, click here. Entrepreneurship and innovation contribute to regional and national economic growth, and preparing Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Jing Betty Feng
Today people can no longer count on a steady paycheck in a predictable amount from an employer. We're seeing ever-growing numbers of “unintended entrepreneurs” -- once-employed people forced to Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Roy Carriker
It's important that current or future members of a family business understand best practices for assembling a Board of Directors (BOD). That's why we explore this in depth as part of a basic family Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Whitney Peake
Editor's Note: Click to download Jim Wetherbe's 260-page book on better communication, " So, What's Your Point? " In the business world, concepts (e.g., entrepreneurial innovations) must be explained Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: James C Wetherbe
The ranks of "unintended entrepreneurs" are growing, but neither the public nor the universities are fully aware of this yet. These unintended entrepreneurs will come from both the existing workforce Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Roy Carriker