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The Next Generation Can Help the Family Firm Innovate

  Much has been written about how family businesses can have transition problems when the founder's children take over.  Best Buy founder Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson of the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson

Of Wine & Sharks: When Entrepreneurs and Investors Clash

Shark Tank is a popular resource for many entrepreneurship educators. While a number of outstanding episodes can be used in the classroom, a two-episode arc focused on Copa Di Vino -- a winery that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Lou Marino

The $10 Business Plan Competition

This exercise is a semester-long project that gives students the opportunity to experience the excitement and challenges associated with identifying an opportunity, developing a startup plan and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Lou Marino and Craig Armstrong

How Can We Define 'Innovation'?

Innovation is a kind of Holy Grail in the world today. Companies strive for it, consumers often reward it, and policy-makers say we need more of it. But many people still find themselves asking, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

How to Grow Your Firm the Right Way

For most new business owners, growth is a sign that the business is successful.  But depending on that business's financial structures and its commitment to shareholders, growth can complicate Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

Retooling Products to Reach New Markets: The Lindt Candy Dilemma

The purpose of this exercise is to help entrepreneurship students understand the importance of retooling products to reach new markets. In this exercise students are required to generate and then Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

A Dash of Psychopathy May Help Women Entrepreneurs

The term “psychopath” conjures up dark images of serial murderers, straitjackets, stalkers and that maniac in the corner office. It is part of the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Lou Marino and Reg Tucker

The Leadership Traits Shared by Successful Entrepreneurs

This paper is based on a research process used by social anthropologists while investigating a new cultural phenomenon.  It involves walking the streets, peeking around corners, observing Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Michael Glauser and Dan Holland

Green Giant: Grocer Scott Nash on Organic Growth

  EIX's Dave Feldman talks with the founder and CEO of Mom's Organic Market, whose business started in his mother's garage and has grown like a beanstalk.  A self-described former "juvenile Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Dave Feldman

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

More than 20 years ago, Steven Aldrich showed the Mosaic Browser to his father, noted entrepreneurship professor Howard Aldrich.  It was a time when Steven was imagining a future in helping Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich