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Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

With this strategy, he aspired to transform Sound of Music from a $10 million a year operation to a $50 Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe

Entrepreneurship in the Laboratory Can Save Lives

“ Entrepreneurship starts with the discovery of an economic opportunity, which is preceded by a conjecture of the relative value of resources” (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000) The above quote could Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Phillip Phan

For the Best Customer Data, Look Beyond the Market

Seed stage entrepreneurs must grapple with how they will scale their businesses. While this process includes many steps, discovering the proper product/market fit for the business is critical early Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Hackers, Makers, and Crowd Funding: Lowering the Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Not too long ago, hackers were engineers with a propensity for mischief and anarchy; makers tinkered with hand tools in their basements; and crowdfunding required nothing more than a guitar, a hat Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Why Didn’t I Think of That? A Classroom Exercise for Developing Entrepreneurial Thinking

  Designed for strategy and entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate and graduate level, this Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Dan Holland

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

Change of Heart: Two Companies that Transformed Cardiac Care

Note the following: This strategy meant not only that he was switching customers from the surgeon to Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: John Seaberg

Abundant Marketing Resources Can Hinder Family Firm Innovation

as a marketing resource (see, for instance, the Special Issue of the Journal of Family Business Strategy Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Qilin Hu , Mat Hughes and Paul Hughes

The ABCs of Creating an Innovative Company

first smartphones and has worked with top global companies to help them develop their innovation strategies Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Steve Wunker