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Older Entrepreneurs May Be Better at Turning Innovation into Local Growth

A study of more than 13,000 Italian startups finds that founder experience — not youth or location — may be the key to converting innovation into revenue growth and job creation. Entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Diego Matricano , Eric Liguori and Grant Alexander Wilson

Why Better Innovations Fail: What Netflix Got Right About Adoption

Many companies build better products and still lose. Netflix shows that innovation is not just invention or launch: It is getting people to switch, stay, and make your solution the new default. Over Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kevin Fee

What History's Greatest Inventions Can Teach Today's Innovators

‘Epic Disruptions’ author Scott Anthony, a Dartmouth Professor and acolyte of the late Clay Christensen, shares surprising facts about 11 world-changing breakthroughs. A Chinese philosophy book Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Catherine Buday

Resilience-Seeking: How Leaders Can Expect the Unexpected

Resilience-seeking is not primarily about outperforming rivals but about adapting to a broad range of unexpected challenges that fall outside market competition. EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Russ Browder, MBA, MDiv, Ph.D , Sean Dwyer, MACCT, Ph.D and Hope Koch, CPA, MBA, PhD

The Toughest Lessons I Learned as a Founder

An engineer, entrepreneur, and teacher reflects on what he got wrong, why it mattered, and what he would do differently if he had the chance. Starting a company was a dream come true. Like many Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Ahmed Negm

Top 10 Articles From 2024 Focused on Early-Stage Challenges

EIX attracted more than 12.5 million page views last year, and many of our visitors yearned for information about testing and launching a venture, judging from the articles published last year that Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: David Townsend and Daniel Forbes

Customers Expect More CSR from Innovative Firms

But there is more: To earn their loyalty and business, consumers also want to see high commitment to a broader range of stakeholders. Organizations send signals to their stakeholders to communicate Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olivia Aronson , Sara Hanson and Matthew LaFont

Students Are Central to Solving the World's Gravest Challenges

EDITOR’S NOTE: Maria Tranquilli is the new Executive Director of the Common Mission Project, an international organization that engages students, educators, government organizations, and the Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Maria Tranquilli

The ABCs of Creating an Innovative Company

EDITOR'S NOTE: Many entrepreneurs struggle to define innovation: whether it’s a product or a process; a radical or gradual change; and even a threat or an opportunity. However, in a world where AI Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Steve Wunker

Sensemaking and Purpose Drive Innovation and Transformation

For startups and entrepreneur-led businesses, purpose is an outcome of an iterative sensemaking process. Sensemaking is the underappreciated strategic activity of making sense of what is going on in Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kevin Fee