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EIX: Reducing Cycle Time in Thought Leadership

Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange (EIX) is a thought leadership platform, launched in August 2014 Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James C Wetherbe

How Entrepreneurial Legends, Heroes and Meccas are Born

many pioneering entrepreneurs with positive reputations and local influence continue to work in leadership Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Stephen Lippmann

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

Becoming a part of Intuit was really a management and leadership education for me beyond what I learned Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Creativity: How to Nurture it, and Get it Back

From Elon Musk to Richard Branson to Steve Jobs, entrepreneurs are creative visionaries, able to see possibilities that have not been seen before. But fulfilling that vision also requires left-brain Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Christina Luconi

How Best Buy Engages Employees in Putting Customers First

Most businesses say that they put the customer first. Yet customers today are more ready than ever to bolt. The changing fortunes of even venerable chains such as Macy's and Sears shows that no Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Richard Schulze and Kimberly Eddleston

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

Advice for Non-Family Executives in Family Businesses

At some point there will be a generational change, and the next generation will take over leadership Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

How 'Job Creators' Think

Much has been said about the importance of “job creators,” mainly small and medium-sized startups and businesses, as engines of economic growth. Far less has been said about the thinking Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh

'Home Field Advantage' Works in Business as well as Baseball

Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry.  But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl