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What Makes Founders Leave Their Companies?

Correctly timing a chief executive officer’s (CEO) succession is very important for firms, because CEO transition sends important signals to investors about the future of the firm’s strategy and Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Joon Mahn Lee , Dalee Yoon and Steven Boivie

Founder CEO Passion in Selling the IPO

Are founder CEOs better at telling their company’s story? This has been the topic of an ongoing debate among entrepreneurship research scholars. On the one hand, the original founder can bring Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Michael Howard , Johannes Kolb and Valerie Sy

Why Entrepreneurship Research Focuses Too Much on Unicorns

Billion-dollar startups are rare, yet they dominate entrepreneurship research. Scholars may learn more by studying ordinary startups and how founders actually build them. Alongside the business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Martin Ruef