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How Employers Can Transform Health Care
Some employers in the United States and Europe are figuring out how to lower their health-care costs while improving employees' health. Darden's Elizabeth Teisberg and Batten Fellow Scott Wallace are studying their innovative approaches, which focus on increasing value, not just cutting costs. Recently Teisberg and Wallace coauthored a commentary for the Financial Times with Harvard Business School's Michael Porter about how employers can play a strategic role in the health care system. Read More
S. Venkataraman Recognized for Foundational Entrepreneurship Research
Darden professor S. Venkataraman (Venkat) has received the inaugural IDEA Award for Foundational Research, from the Academy of Management's Entrepreneurship Division, for his 1997 paper "The Distinctive Domain of Entrepreneurship Research." What is that domain, he asked? "To the extent that our answer to this question is unclear... our very survival in the world of business research and education is seriously threatened." Read More
How Radical Ideas Survive
Great ideas can bubble up from any part of an organization, but how many of them get a chance to develop? Darden's Raul Chao and Georgia Tech's Stylianos Kavadias are studying how large companies decide which new ideas to pursue and what happens with the unproven, out-of-left-field concepts that formal stage-gate innovation processes often kill. Read More
Publications
“Unlearned Lessons from Letter From Birmingham Jail” (article) Gregory B. Fairchild & Jeffrey A. Robinson in Business & Society
So You Want to Start a Business (book) Edward D. Hess and Charles F. Goetz
Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise (book) Saras Sarasvathy
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Carl J. Schramm
The U.S. and the global economy need entrepreneurs and the radical innovations they bring to market. Schramm, the president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, has devoted himself to spreading that message. Read More
News
Article in UK Times Quotes Jeanne Liedtka, Catalyst co-author (July 1, 2009)
Big Think Interviews Entrepreneurship Professor Saras Sarasvathy (June 26, 2009)