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From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The New Age of Entrepreneurial Education

Entrepreneurship teachers can't afford to be bystanders in today's technology-driven world.  If we are bystanders, our students follow suit. If they are bystanders, we have not fulfilled our Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Doan Winkel

Family Business Professors: 40 Ways to Energize Your Class

  For family business professors and teachers, August means finalizing plans to engage students in the classroom. Here are free classroom exercises, interviews, case studies and other resources Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Mat Hughes

Townsend and Hughes Are New Senior Editors

Mat Hughes (left) is now Senior Editor of familybusiness.org and David Townsend (right) is Senior Editor of EIX. As readership continues to rise dramatically year after year, EIX.org and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

How Babson is Improving the Relevance and Reach of Scholarly Research

Too often, academic research is buried in jargon that no one can understand. The best academic research changes how people view their world and do their jobs. Scholarly study of entrepreneurship can Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Andrew Zacharakis

Entrepreneur Philanthropy: What is the Appropriate Donation for a Named Gift?

Companies led by entrepreneurs allocate more than  twice  the percentage of profits to charity than many of America’s largest companies , a fact noted in an earlier EIX article, “Perils Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Derek Dictson , James Hoffman and James C Wetherbe

How This Adult Education Entrepreneur Did a 180 in the Pandemic

This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX . How many times have you heard people say, "I can't wait Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Steven Schragis

Reciprocity: Matching 'Asks' and 'Resources' for Entrepreneurs

Every entrepreneur knows that a large part of their success depends on their ability to find advice, connections, and resources that will help them on their journey (Davidsson & Honig, 2003; Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Corey Breier

The Hidden Payoffs of Entrepreneurship Competitions

As more and more universities across the US are adopting entrepreneurship competitions as a way to promote the innovative contributions of their students and to evaluate their entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Emma Fleck , Jing Betty Feng and James Beal

Back to School: Resources for an Uncertain Time

Colleges and universities everywhere are grappling with how to teach in fall of 2020. Courses are being offered in online, in-person, and hybrid formats, and many instructors find themselves having Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Daniel Forbes , Kimberly Eddleston and David Deeds

Students Need Entrepreneurship Courses Now More Than Ever

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an updated version of an article that we first published in 2017. The author has updated it because it is especially relevant for the post-Covid-19 workforce.  Today’s Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Cochran