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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
Entrepreneurs play a huge role in society by bringing underappreciated products to market -- products that can help people but that big companies are too busy or disinterested to develop. In the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eden Blair
Can a socially conscious company be true both to its mission and to its bottom line? If there's conflict, what gets priority? It's a difficult balancing act and missteps can cost customers, Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Ken Harrington , Dave Feldman and Nicholas Vitalari