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Entrepreneurial legends like Steve Jobs -- who created blockbuster products without asking anyone if they wanted them – anticipated the market. Many other entrepreneurs have great ideas that never Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Sharon Alvarez , Kathleen Allen and Lars Oddsson
Many entrepreneurship classes focus on student business ideas. The goal of this exercise is to expose students to a variety of tests to validate a business idea quickly: setting up the tests in one Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Ethan Mollick
Entrepreneurs play a huge role in society by bringing underappreciated products to market -- products that can help people but that big companies are too busy or disinterested to develop. In the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eden Blair
Successful entrepreneurs not only identify problems that must be solved, but also empathize with the people affected by them. In this discussion, Babson College's Yasu Yamakawa and Brett Smith of Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa and Brett Smith
Sleepovers at mattress stores, banks that allow depositors to set their own maturity dates on certificates of deposits, a bowling alley that charges by the number of pins that the bowler knocks Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Michael Morris
While king crab fishing is among the most dangerous and lucrative activities in the world, it is only recent technology that makes it possible to extract this bounty from the sea, from global Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Author: Sharon Alvarez
Innovation is a kind of Holy Grail in the world today. Companies strive for it, consumers often reward it, and policy-makers say we need more of it. But many people still find themselves asking, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Daniel Forbes
Are you looking for high-quality new material to enrich your entrepreneurship courses and freshen up the syllabus? Are you tired of making students pay for subscription resources? Do your students Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds
One of the benefits of achieving “late middle age” with a relatively intact brain is the perspective one has after participating in an industry for 40 years. My industry background has been Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Author: John Seaberg
Jeff Freeland Nelson has some unusual advice for young people wanting to become entrepreneurs: major in theater instead of business. It will teach you how to make things, work with others creatively Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Daniel Forbes