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Helping Next-Gens Envision Their Family Firm’s Future Success

A comprehensive and convincing vision is crucial in helping family businesses be successful over generations. However, many lectures and course exercises that prepare future leaders merely ask Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Friedrich Kammerlander

How Educators Can Recognize and Support Entrepreneurial Personas

Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes.  Acknowledging this statement is essential, as university-based entrepreneurship often focuses primarily on what I'll call "unicorn entrepreneurship" Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Chuck Sacco

Growing Pains: Helping a Family Office to Evolve

This case study invites students to identify the underlying issues, stakes, and potential pathways forward for a troubled family office. Students also explore problems surrounding the evolution of Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Claudia Binz Astrachan

From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The New Age of Entrepreneurial Education

Entrepreneurship teachers can't afford to be bystanders in today's technology-driven world.  If we are bystanders, our students follow suit. If they are bystanders, we have not fulfilled our Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Doan Winkel

SNL Humor Can Illustrate [Un]Viable Business Models

In a very funny 2014 skit from Saturday Night Live, Melissa McCarthy plays a founder with a business idea – personally eating people’s leftover pizza – and is trying to get a small business Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Danielle Ailts Campeau and Michelle Somes-Booher

Pitching and Evaluating a Venture: The Case of TeamGenius

How can entrepreneurs build a case for external investment, and how do investors evaluate the ventures pitched to them? This case offers some answers to these questions. It’s likely to be of Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Jay Ebben and Alec Johnson

Bisociation Teaching Exercise Spurs Business Model Innovation 

Diverse paths lead to entrepreneurial opportunities and innovative business models. Some entrepreneurs arrive at their destination via a deliberate, rational process of search and causal thinking. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Dante Di Gregorio , Joel Ryman and Jennifer Kuan

What a Viral Music Video Can Teach us About Collaborating

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, OK Go released its song “All Together Now” which was created by the band members working from their own home music studios. The video was viewed Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Douglas Orzolek , AnnMarie Thomas , Clare Howard , Taylor Casey , Luke Tozour and Damian Kulash

 ‘Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis’ Course Energizes Students

This spring, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship experimented with a new “Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis” course for undergraduate students. For years we’ve seen a huge student interest in Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Jay Ebben and Jack Dempsey

Learning How Family Business Leaders Make Decisions Through Interviews

This exercise allows students to apply core family business concepts to a real-world business context. In this exercise, students interview a family business owner and present their findings both as Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: John Rogers , Carol Wittmeyer and Clay Dibrell