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A Life Linking Science and Practice: Remembering Andy Van de Ven

Photo taken by Kai Dragland at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2012 Since our founding in 2014, a central part of our mission at EIX has been supporting knowledge-sharing Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Daniel Forbes

Townsend and Hughes Are New Senior Editors

Mat Hughes (left) is now Senior Editor of familybusiness.org and David Townsend (right) is Senior Editor of EIX. As readership continues to rise dramatically year after year, EIX.org and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Diversify Your Family's Risks by Returning to Its Entrepreneurial Roots

Family enterprises are the backbone of the world’s economy and critically important to the economic growth and development of every nation. On average, they outperform publicly owned non-family Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

  Entrepreneurs face many challenges when building a new company from an innovative idea -- financial pressures, networking for seed money, satisfying venture investors who have their own Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD

Today's Innovators Can Prosper by Building a Better Tomorrow

About a decade ago Josh Tetrick, after doing charity work in sub-Saharan Africa for the UN and teaching there as a Fulbright Scholar, decided to channel his idealism into a company.  He Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Chunka Mui

Six Steps to Help Artists Thrive as Entrepreneurs

  For centuries, in many cultures, a career as an artist has centered on public performances, public exhibitions, and public perceptions of perfection and virtuosity.  As artists we’ve Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sarah Marty

Research With a Twist: Podcast Pairs Insights with Beer, Wine and Spirits

Sitting at a local brewery with Brad Werner , my colleague at Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, I was excited to dive into a white paper on advancing entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jeffrey York

How Babson is Improving the Relevance and Reach of Scholarly Research

Too often, academic research is buried in jargon that no one can understand. The best academic research changes how people view their world and do their jobs. Scholarly study of entrepreneurship can Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Andrew Zacharakis

Navigating the She-cession: Advice for Women Entrepreneurs

While it appears that Covid-19 is waning in many parts of the world, its effects -- economic as well as physical -- still linger for many. Among the hardest hit: working women, including those who Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jessica Larson

SPACs Create New Opportunities to Exit Your Business

  Everybody from former CEOs to former Speaker of The House Paul Ryan to Shaq to Colin Kaepernick are all leading Wall Street’s latest fad – The Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds