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Virtual care startup Zipnosis aids the fight against the coronavirus

Zipnosis, a digital health company based in Minneapolis, is playing an important role in enabling patients to communicate with health care providers without leaving their homes. Since 2008, Zipnosis' Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Daniel Forbes

Team-Pitch-Quiz Learning Engages Students and Builds Understanding

The TPQL learning concept can work for classrooms and programs beyond entrepreneurship It's a simple and engaging way to help students learn complex topics. Many of us remember that one infamous Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Lars Oddsson

How Crisis Spurred Healthcare Innovation in Cuba

Health care is a hotly debated topic in the US -- how it's delivered, whether the government or employers pay for it, how research on promising new drugs is funded and other issues. "Innovation" is Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Eapen Chacko

Change of Heart: Two Companies that Transformed Cardiac Care

One of the benefits of achieving “late middle age” with a relatively intact brain is the perspective one has after participating in an industry for 40 years. My industry background has been Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: John Seaberg

The Harrowing Journey of Finding Investors

  Entrepreneurs are generally far more interested in creating a product or service and getting it to market than the tedious and often humbling process of obtaining funding.  Yet, finding Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Linda Hall

The Spectacular Rise of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Emerging economies typically get a boost when their homegrown industries partner with multinational giants on research and innovation. Such strategies have lifted the fortunes of China, Malaysia and Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Kristin Brandl , Ram Mudambi and Vittoria G. Scalera

RX for Success: Former MinuteClinic CEO Linda Hall Shares her Stories

  In 2002, both Linda Hall and her new company -- which would later become MinuteClinic, a fixture in 1000 CVS stores -- had a lot to lose. Hall was the sole breadwinner in her household and had Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Linda Hall

Entrepreneurship in the Laboratory Can Save Lives

“ Entrepreneurship starts with the discovery of an economic opportunity, which is preceded by a conjecture of the relative value of resources” (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000) The above quote could Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Phillip Phan

What Venture Capital Can Do for Your Company

  The financial market can be daunting for new entrepreneurs. Anyone who tries to be a part of it without understanding how it works, the players on the buy and sell sides, and their economic Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Eapen Chacko

Eradicating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are not only some of today's most successful business owners, but also some of our best problem solvers.  Now more than ever, the world's humanitarian and environmental challenges Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Tina Cornely