Members of the Business Studio now have access to the full version of the ProQuest Entrepreneurship Database! This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly – including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings – to a full toolkit … Read more
Authors: Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji Increasingly, business leaders are tasked with developing new products, services, and business models that minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth. It’s a tall order–and a call that is only getting louder. In Can Business Save the Earth?, Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji explain just how the private sector … Read more
Authors: Raj Sisodia, Timothy Henry and Thomas Eckschmidt You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you’re not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. This book gives you the tools for sharing and implementing the principles … Read more
Consumers expect more warmth from small companies, and will punish you if you don’t deliver, new research has found. How company size changes expectations Do consumers have different expectations of how they’ll be treated by a business according to its size? Yes. In a forthcoming paper, researchers Yang and Aggarwal (2018) investigated how “perceptions of a company’s … Read more
Singaporean e-commerce startup Carousell has raised $US85 million ($112.4 million) in its series C funding round, and will use the cash to bring artificial intelligence into the world of classified ads. Founded in 2012, Carousell is a community marketplace app intended to make buying and selling items as easy as possible. It launched in Australia in … Read more
James Harkness – Dynamic Business – 27 April 2018 The challenges SMBs inevitably encounter as they outgrow their original technological infrastructure can become compounded if they’re experiencing rapid expansion and find themselves overseeing a national workforce. Social entrepreneurs Nic Marchesi and Lucas Patchett, named the 2016 young Australians of the year, know this all too … Read more
Fat Lama, a lending site that lets users rent and lease goods, just raised $US10 million for its Series A. The site, which kicked off in the UK two years ago, recently launched its first stateside offering in New York. While Fat Lama typically offers equipment like drones, printers, and cameras, some more curious items … Read more
Ever wondered how those beautiful people on Instagram score major deals with Australia’s biggest brands? Well, meet Genevieve Day, the woman who transforms fledgling social media accounts into booming businesses. At just 26 years old, Day runs her own marketing business called Day Management. Unlike traditional marketing firms, Day’s job is to promote the public … Read more
Lying in a darkened room for a month was the first time in years Cyan Ta’eed had slowed down. Ta’eed co-founded technology marketplace Envato in 2006 and grew the company to 348 staff and a turnover of $US72 million ($92 million). “I’d been at Envato for about 12 years and it had been really incredible, always really … Read more
There’s little doubt that plastic waste is our oceans is one of the most threatening issues of our time. A global partnership between sports retailer Adidas and ocean innovator Parley aims to curb the problem, with several Aussie sporting heroes lending their support to the campaign. Adidas and Parley have partnered up to create a … Read more
