Interest: Management Organization Teaching Methods Family Business Startups Diverse Entrepreneurial Teams Generative AI Entrepreneurship
Industry: Educational Services Publishing, Media, Broadcasting Social Media & Networks
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A study of 362 startup teams found that men were more likely to take charge, especially when women founded businesses with their husbands.
Startups make organizational change easier to observe. Researchers can watch new ventures experiment, compete, adapt, survive or fail without the complexity found in large corporations.
New tools, shared maker spaces and crowdfunding platforms are making it easier for entrepreneurs to develop products, test ideas, raise money and bring innovations to market.
Entrepreneurs pursue opportunities beyond the resources they currently control. Their ability to succeed often depends on the people and organizations they can reach through their networks.
Successful entrepreneur Steven Aldrich, now CPO of GoDaddy, sits down with his earliest mentor.
Americans tend to believe that abilities, traits, and efforts help anyone get ahead. This game examines the huge impact of social and economic factors.
College students may resist, but cooperative projects, done right, can help them grow socially and professionally.
New and unproven? Fake it and you are more likely to make it.
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
Legendary people and settings often emerge by accident, but it takes deliberate effort to cement their impact on entrepreneurial history.
Google and Uber are fascinating, but millions of ordinary businesses need research that helps them be more successful.
UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Howard Aldrich said focus and grades improved once cell phones were out of the picture…and students engaged with one another more.
