A classic story about entrepreneurs, Purell history displays how a wife and her husband satisfied a need before it existed.
Amazon Economics
Starting with Whole Foods, today’s Amazon economics lesson will include topics that range from Amazon’s acquisitions and innovations to their IPO.
Why Didn’t I Think of That?
A person whose goal is growth and innovation, the founder of Parcel is an example of Joseph Schumpeter’s high impact entrepreneur and creative destruction.
The Invisible People in Your Life
The highly skilled human capital that we ignore is invisible because their behind-the scenes jobs make things work.
Joseph Schumpeter: Economic Models and Eileen Ford
Eileen Ford died this week. An entrepreneur who transformed the business of beauty, Eileen Ford’s talent was pairing a face with a camera. During its earlier years, the women her modeling agency represented included Martha Stewart, Ali MacGraw, Suzy Parker, Candice Bergen, and…
What You Might Not Know About Alibaba's Jack Ma
Seeing the Alibaba IPO in the headlines, I wanted to share these excerpts from a 2006 CNN interview of Jack Ma: About his firm’s name: “One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking…
The Significance of the Frisbee
The story of the Frisbee begins in a backyard during a Thanksgiving dinner in 1937. Fred Morrison and his girlfriend Lucile “Lu” Nay were tossing a popcorn-tin lid when they switched to a cake pan because it had better aerodynamics.…