Congratulations to our 2024-25 Schulze Awards Winners!
Each year, the Schulze Publication Awards celebrate the authors of the most impactful articles published on EIX and FamilyBusiness.org. These awards recognize exceptional thought leadership, clarity of perspective, and the ability to bridge research and practice, inspiring entrepreneurs, educators, and family business leaders worldwide.
Our newest group of EIX winners features authors who published articles during the academic year of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. Their contributions focused on many aspects of starting and running your business -- from testing ideas, to learning from mistakes, to navigating tough and uncertain times, and much more. We've also recognized authors who focused on how to teach entrepreneurship to college and even high school students. This breadth of topics, and our efforts to expand our usefulness to many kinds of audiences, have helped establish EIX as a premier resource for cutting-edge research and practical guidance.
Here are the winners of the 2024/25 Schulze Publication Awards:
EIX Award Categories & Recipients
Applied and Practice
Max Mirho, Test Your Startup Idea in One Day
Alex Pena and Dira Delpech, Transitioning from Academia to Entrepreneurship
Ahmed Negm, The Toughest Lessons I Learned as a Founder
Kevin Fee, Sensemaking: The Entrepreneur's Competitive Edge
Zack Kinzler, AI Can Turbocharge Entrepreneurial Skills and How They Are Taught
Commentary
Joseph Astrachan and Claudia Binz Astrachan, Turbulence Ahead: How Businesses Can Navigate Tariffs and Uncertainty
James C Wetherbe, Remembering and Learning From Fedex Founder Fred Smith
James C. Wetherbe and Kimberly Eddleston, More Than an Entrepreneur: How Best Buy Founder Dick Schulze Saves Lives
Education and Teaching
Steve Blank, Stanford's Lean Launchpad Class Achieves Huge Impact
Jennifer Gessner, Introducing the Business Model: A Comprehensive Lesson Plan for High School Students
Jing Betty Feng and Jennifer Gessner, Unlock Creativity and Problem-Solving with LEGO Serious Play
Features
Lin Grensing-Pophal, Learning to Let Go of a Startup
Edd Staton and Cynthia Staton, Turning Retirement on its Head
Richard Eisenberg, 6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Un-Retire
Interviews
Pat Alacqua, Don't Just Scale, Evolve
Kimberly Eddleston, The Emotional Downside of Exiting Your Business
Practice Insight
David Leichter, Common Cash Flow Challenges Faced by Entrepreneurs
Research Insight
Wim Biemans and Avinash Malsh, The Right Digital Tools Help Remote Teams Innovate
David Townsend, Richard Hunt and Judy Rady, Timeless Wisdom for Turbulent Times
Mark Bolinger, Katrina Brownell and Jeffrey Covin, Keeping it Real: How Entrepreneurs Effectively Disclose Risk
Theodore L. Waldron, Jeffery S. McMullen, G. Tyge Payne, Oleg Petrenko, and James C. Wetherbe, Cash Is Not Always King in Founder/Investor Relationships
Benjamin McLarty, Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy and Jeffrey Muldoon, Your Dark Side Can Motivate You to Start a Business
Paul Sanchez, Robert Pidduck, Duygu Phillips and Josh Daspit, Using Humble Language Can Drive Market Success
Robert Morier and Barrie Litzky, Why Lifeguards Make the Best Founders and CEOs
Congratulations to All Awardees
The Schulze Publication Awards honor more than individual excellence—they highlight our mission to provide free, research-based resources that educate, inform, and inspire. This year’s winners embody that mission, offering actionable insights and thought-provoking research for the global community.
To explore the award-winning articles from past years, visit our Schulze Publication Awards page.
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