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A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

I've never run a team. I've never had employees before, so I'm not sure I'm ready." Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

'Home Field Advantage' Works in Business as well as Baseball

Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry.  But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl

Innovation in K-12 Education: One District's Journey

Consistent with Kotter's advice, MPS assembled an Urgency Team, which was tasked with communicating a Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eric Schneider

How Entrepreneurial Legends, Heroes and Meccas are Born

many pioneering entrepreneurs with positive reputations and local influence continue to work in leadership Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Stephen Lippmann

How Best Buy Engages Employees in Putting Customers First

with customer contact, they seek people who can easily connect with others, enjoy being part of a team Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Richard Schulze and Kimberly Eddleston

Creativity: How to Nurture it, and Get it Back

Assemble a thinking team of diverse points of view. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Christina Luconi

Personal and Extended Networks are Central to the Entrepreneurial Process

From a practitioner’s viewpoint, networking is a useful tool for entrepreneurs who wish to enlarge their span of action and save time. Admonitions to “network,” however, may not be enough. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Green Giant: Grocer Scott Nash on Organic Growth

EIX's Dave Feldman talks with the founder and CEO of Mom's Organic Market, whose business started in his mother's garage and has grown like a beanstalk.  A self-described former "juvenile Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Dave Feldman

How 'Job Creators' Think

Much has been said about the importance of “job creators,” mainly small and medium-sized startups and businesses, as engines of economic growth. Far less has been said about the thinking Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh