Entrepreneurship

My son does not always get his homework done. That’s not really news – he is 16, in high school, and while he does well on tests and knows his material, turning in homework is just not always a priority. Like I said, not much news there for a teenage boy in America. But the numbers of [...]

One of the oldest jokes in business is about advertising: “We know that half of all your advertising dollars are wasted.  We just don’t know which half.” That was never more true than today, in a down-market that is also rapidly changing.  The world of advertising is morphing into those of us who “get it” [...]

Are you a Mason alum or area business owner (or dreaming of becoming an owner)? Have you thought about starting your “own thing”? Think someday you may need outside capital? This semester I am coordinating the MBA Entrepreneurship Laboratory. In this 1.5 credit class we have small teams of MBA students looking at area firms [...]