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Finalists Selected For Inaugural Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition
March 22, 2011 12:00am PDT
Five teams have been selected as finalists for Friday's (March 25) Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition, an inaugural business plan competition led by Purdue University and the University of...
Provided by: University of Notre Dame
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Business Answers: Most Effective Marketing & Going Global
March 6, 2011 12:00am PST
Alfred Edmond, multimedia editor-at-large for Black Enterprise, and Cameron Johnson, a serial entrepreneur and author, answer viewer questions about the most effective forms of marketing and...
Provided by: American Express Company
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Industrialisation And De-industrialisation: England Divides
March 2, 2011 12:00am PST
The changes that led to the first industrialisation were cumulative, aided by occasional positive shocks that were largely fortuitous. At the heart was the emergence right from the sixteenth...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Dynamics Of Entrepreneurship Under Incomplete Markets
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
An entrepreneur faces substantial non-diversifiable business risk and liquidity constraints, both of which the authors refer to as frictions. They show that these frictions have significant...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Persistent Anti-market Culture: A Legacy Of The Pale Of Settlement And Of The Holocaust
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the long-term effects of the important presence of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Second World War and their disappearance during the Holocaust. The Pale of Settlement,...
Provided by: Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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With A Little Help From My (Random) Friends: Success And Failure In Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
To what extent do peers affect the occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry....
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Personality Characteristics And The Decision To Become And Stay Self-employed
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey,...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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The 10 most annoying employees
February 24, 2011 11:21am PST
Certain behaviors are almost guaranteed to drive your boss crazy. Unfortunately, you might not even know you're doing it -- until the day you're shown the door.
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American Business: Trial & Error
February 20, 2011 12:00am PST
Most entrepreneurs do their best to avoid small business blunders, but not all missteps are bad ones. Sometimes, you can learn valuable lessons. In fact, one business owner and her team are making...
Provided by: American Express Company
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Low Prices, Hidden Costs To Society
February 18, 2011 12:00am PST
If people paid the "Full cost" for their goods, says Jeffrey Hollender, founder of the Seventh Generation brand of natural household products, "Bad" products would be expensive and "Good" products...
Provided by: University of Notre Dame
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Entrepreneurs, Sticky Competition And The Schumpeterian Cobb-douglas Production Function
February 16, 2011 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors institute the role of entrepreneurs in technical progress and the mechanism of tools multiplication into the Cobb Douglas Production Function. After the advancements,...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Live For The Future And Survive Success
February 16, 2011 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter guides the company's continuing efforts to successfully deliver innovative medical technologies to market. In this webcast, the presenter shares entrepreneurial...
Provided by: Stanford University
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Institutions, Entrepreneurship And Channels To Sustained Economic Growth
February 15, 2011 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors build a simple model to integrate the findings and/or hypotheses in the diverse literatures related to economic development and growth. They include the literature on...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Business Answers: Getting Clients To Pay & Lessons Learned
February 13, 2011 12:00am PST
Business strategist, who you can find online at CarolRoth.com, and the president and CEO of Predictable Success and author of the book "Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth...
Provided by: American Express Company
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Better Your Business: Jen Groover & Amilya Antonetti
February 9, 2011 12:00am PST
A serial entrepreneur and author of "What If? And Why Not? How to Transform Your Fears Into Action and Start the Business of Your Dreams," and the founder and CEO of AMA Productions and author of...
Provided by: American Express Company
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The Power Of Curiosity And Inspiration
February 9, 2011 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter is an entrepreneur driven by an innate curiosity to create amazing products and services. In this insightful lecture, the presenter describes his early background...
Provided by: Stanford University
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One Great Idea: Creative Sourcing For Green Innovation - Alexis Ringwald
February 5, 2011 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter discusses how social media, youth, and new forms of entrepreneurship are revolutionizing the way companies source innovations in cleantech, climate and sustainability.
Provided by: GreenBiz Group
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Relentless Pursuit Of Innovation
February 2, 2011 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter shares insights from her career in biotechnology and academia on leading teams, managing risks against rewards, and innovative product development. The presenter...
Provided by: Stanford University
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Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, And Economic Growth In The People?s Republic Of China
February 1, 2011 12:00am PST
China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature on its consequences focuses mostly on negative aspects such as crime. In...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Cream Skimming In Financial Markets
February 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The authors propose an equilibrium occupational choice model, where agents can choose to work in the real sector (become entrepreneurs) or to become informed dealers in financial markets. Agents...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
