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The Business Case for Disability Inclusion in Small Companies

Disability inclusion is more than a legal obligation. Well-designed accommodation systems can strengthen employee trust, reduce costly turnover, and preserve knowledge inside small firms. Workers Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Rebecca Davies

Eight Signs You May Be Trapped in Your Family Business

Family members can feel stuck when career goals, identity and family expectations become intertwined. These questions can help reveal whether it is time for change. For some individuals, working in a Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Michael Klein

How Entrepreneurial Legends, Heroes and Meccas are Born

Entrepreneurship history is filled with events, places and people who are now legendary or even sacred. In the beginning of the 20th century, New York’s Lower East Side became a place where Jewish Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Stephen Lippmann

The McDonaldization of Everything: Teaching Weber to Undergraduates

Allowing students to venture out into the McDonaldized world helps them see how complex theories work in real life. Max Weber argued that the process of rationalization transformed social life Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Stephen Lippmann

The Sustainable Entrepreneur: Balancing People, Planet and Profit

Entrepreneurs and business leaders are blessed and cursed with thinking about their businesses 24 hours a day. It becomes their life focus. What is it that consumes them? Bottom line? Employee Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Dave Feldman

'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 they Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl

How Crisis Spurred Healthcare Innovation in Cuba

Health care is a hotly debated topic in the US -- how it's delivered, whether the government or employers pay for it, how research on promising new drugs is funded and other issues. "Innovation" is Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Eapen Chacko

How Minnetonka Public Schools Built a Culture of Innovation

Minnetonka created a district-wide system that helped teachers and staff propose, test and develop ideas that improved learning and school programs. The United States’ system of K-12 public Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eric Schneider

Five Ways Best Buy Builds Customer Loyalty Through Employees

Best Buy improves customer loyalty by hiring well, training employees, expanding service, rewarding ideas and encouraging experimentation. Most businesses say that they put the customer first. Yet Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Richard Schulze and Kimberly Eddleston

How Non-Family Leaders Can Navigate Family Business Dynamics

Ritch Sorenson explains how outside executives can manage family relationships, strengthen the business and help prepare the next generation to lead. Ritch Sorenson, Professor of Family Business at Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

Interviewee: Ritch Sorenson