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What Toy Inventors Can Teach Entrepreneurs About Innovating With AI

Tickle Me Elmo, Pound Puppies and other toy hits reveal why human insight, emotion and lived experience still matter in the age of generative AI. Toy invention is a brutal business. On the worst Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: David Wyman

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