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Research identifies three keys to accelerator success: applying at the right time, navigating selection biases, and securing funding after graduation. In his 2015 EIX article, “ Should I Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Scott Newbert , Romi Kher and Shu Yang
Social entrepreneurs care more about mission continuity than cashing out. This research-backed framework helps founders prepare successors, reduce founder dependence, and sustain impact. As Sarah sat Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Raja Singaram , Miruna Radu-Lefebvre and William Gartner
The greatest value incubators can offer social entrepreneurs is training in the language, norms, and rules of business. A new generation of entrepreneurial incubators and accelerators focused Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Shinwon Noh , David Deeds , Michelle Augustyn and Imran Chowdhury
While business models for traditional startups are well understood, there’s still a knowledge gap when it comes to social enterprises—those driven by social or environmental missions. Even though Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Lien De Cuyper and Bart Clarysse
Fintech is an increasingly important innovation for businesses across the world. Fintech broadly refers to technologies that enable banking and financial services. As fintech has the power to diffuse Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Arzi Adbi and Siddharth Natarajan
By Christian Busch and Harry Barkema In more advanced economies around the world, entrepreneurs can count on a network of established institutions that help them launch and grow a business: local and Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Christian Busch
In January 2021 I joined the Great Resignation and took an early retirement from the University of Minnesota (UMN). I had spent 12 years there teaching social entrepreneurship and managing Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Fred Rose
Ford, Estee Lauder, Hyatt. What do these names have in common? For starters, they are behind some of the largest family firms in the world. But they are also associated with a revolution in finance Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Jeanne Roche
Consumers, policymakers and society at large are caring more and more about businesses' commitment to loftier causes than just making money, such as social justice, the environment, and the welfare Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Hans Rawhouser , Michael Cummings and Scott Newbert
About a decade ago Josh Tetrick, after doing charity work in sub-Saharan Africa for the UN and teaching there as a Fulbright Scholar, decided to channel his idealism into a company. He cofounded Eat Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Chunka Mui