Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics    Thunderbird School of Global Management    Arizona State University    University of Houston-Clear Lake   

Interest in the need to develop training programs for women entrepreneurs is growing, especially in developing countries where the potential influence of women entrepreneurs is significant. In these countries, woman…

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    INSEAD    Johns Hopkins University    Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business    Entrepreneur Futures Network   

Mentors with extensive entrepreneurial experience can make a significant contribution to the success of new or less experienced entrepreneurs facing the inevitable setbacks of early stage ventures. Many entrepreneurial mentoring…

Idea posted: January 2020

Institutions: IESE Business School   

Corporate venturing, a collaboration between an established firm and an innovative start-up, has been gaining ground as a strategic path to innovation. There is a wide range of mechanisms for…

Idea posted: September 2017

Institutions: University of Nevada, Las Vegas    Ramon Llull University    ESADE    Villanova University School of Business   

The greatest hurdle for entrepreneurial enterprises, especially in the early stages, is gaining access to the external resources required to launch and maintain the venture. After synthesizing the lessons from…

Idea posted: June 2017

Institutions: Aalto University School of Business    ESADE   

More than a billion people live in poverty around the world, earning less than $2 a day. A billion people may be a huge market in terms of numbers but…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management    York University Schulich School of Business    Concordia University John Molson School of Business   

Entrepreneurs need money to fund their ideas. Many legendary start-ups received their early funding from venture capitalists. However, VC’s are now more interested in contributing to later stage companies rather…

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    MIT Sloan School of Management   

Google was famous for its 20% free innovation time policy. Google employees were allowed to spend 20% of their time in the office to pursue any personal interests and ideas…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business    University of East Anglia   

In the early 1990s, large corporations started moving, slowly and almost imperceptibly at first, away from the kind of broad scientific research that led to such inventions as Nylon and…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management    Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business    University of Chicago Booth School of Business   

For most consumers, waiting in a long queue is a frustrating experience. There is nothing to be gained from standing in a slow line at the grocery store or waiting…