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Family Business Professors: Resources For Online Learning

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, many professors are quickly revising their courses to be delivered online. FamilyBusiness.org is here to help with an array of free and peer-reviewed Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Online Teaching Resources from EIX

During the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, many instructors are quickly revising their courses to be delivered online. EIX is here to help with an array of free and peer-reviewed resources that can Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Daniel Forbes

Technology Tools for Working or Teaching Remotely

While many in the business world are accustomed to working remotely, many teachers feel online instruction and meetings will never replace being in the same classroom together. However, companies Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jon Eckhardt

'Monopoly' Game vs. the Real World: A Teaching Tool

Investopedia defines an entrepreneur as “an individual who creates a new business bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.” Wikipedia calls entrepreneurship “the process of Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Stevie Arroyo and James Hoffman

Creativity Exercise: Connecting Disparate Products, Services, or Concepts

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

A Lean Startup Approach to Engaging High School Students

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

Case Studies, Movies, TV Shows and Other Family Business Resources

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

STEM Students and Faculty Can Gain Entrepreneurial Thinking and Skills

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

Let's Get Professional: Family Firms Need HRM Practices

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

Innovation Challenge Engages Students at a Commuter School

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