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In the private sector, collaboration between the people who develop and commercialize new technologies is essential to a successful new venture. But in the college setting, Conflict of Interest Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Liz Christenbury
Most businesses say that they put the customer first. Yet customers today are more ready than ever to bolt. The changing fortunes of even venerable chains such as Macy's and Sears shows that no Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Richard Schulze and Kimberly Eddleston
Ritch Sorenson, Professor of Family Business at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis, once worked at a bank founded by his grandfather. When it closed, he felt a personal loss that persists Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Ritch Sorenson
Interviewee: Ritch Sorenson
A successful entrepreneur and his family wanted to donate a new building to a state university. What happened next illustrated the maxim that “no good deed goes unpunished.” Because the building Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: James C Wetherbe
On November 29, Rewire hosted a Facebook Live Q&A entitled, "How Do You Know When It's Safe to Quit Your Day Job?," led by David Deeds, Schulze Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds
The purpose of this exercise is to help students understand the advantages and challenges of working in a family business or of being in a business family. Some students who have worked in their Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Ritch Sorenson
Years ago, millions of consumers discovered something that they never knew they needed: TIVO, which ultimately would change the way they watched television and disrupt an entire industry. That Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Eden Blair
Babson College’s flagship undergraduate course, “Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME),” was created in 1996 (as Foundation Management Experience) to give all first year Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa
As online crowdsourcing has shown, people will support a proposed business or cause that moves them. For entrepreneurs, the ability to test a proposed product or service's uniqueness and appeal has Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Dan Holland
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