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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 Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Chunka Mui
More than 2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, and each year more than 1 million people die because of water-related diseases. These facts can make life unbearable for affected Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Coraima Yanez , Jennifer Long and Shilpa Alva
Since the mid-1970s, microfinance has been seen as a way to lift people in emerging economies out of poverty by providing them access to financial services, particularly microcredit. Micro-loans are Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Pushan Dutt , Jasjit Singh and Arzi Adbi
Climate change, income inequality, injustice and other vexing social and environmental challenges are changing our thinking and the way businesses operate. As social media helps good and bad news Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Ozlem Ogutveren Gonul and Zuhal Senyuva
Editor's Note: This article and podcast originally appeared as part of "By All Means," a series about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs produced through a partnership between University of St. Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: James Beal