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Delivering the Goods: An Interview with Best Buy and EIX Founder Dick Schulze

Got up in the morning at 5:30, 6 o'clock developed a strategy, which I learned after the first year, Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

How do take a complicated strategy for a multibillion dollar firm and break it down into three elements Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Adjuncts: An Overlooked Source of Prestige

EDITOR’S NOTE: Steve Blank, who has founded or co-founded eight startups, is best known as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship and is credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, which for Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Steve Blank

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

  Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis

The Best Family Business Boards Embrace Candor and 'Necessary Endings'

Second of a two-part series From our studies evaluating the effectiveness of boards at family firms, we’ve seen first-hand how strong boards can help family businesses be more successful. In Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann

How Do You Know When It's Safe to Quit Your Day Job?

On November 29, Rewire hosted a Facebook Live Q&A entitled, "How Do You Know When It's Safe to Quit Your Day Job?," led by David Deeds, Schulze Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

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

Why You Should Name Your Business After Yourself

What's in a name? For many family-run businesses, the business name and family name are the same, linking the reputations of the two, for better or worse. New family business owners often grapple Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Sharon Belenzon

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