By Michael Chmura | February 9, 2018
A Research Agenda for Women and Entrepreneurship has been published by Edward Elgar publishing Elgar Research Agendas. The publication is edited by Candida G. Brush, the Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship and Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson, and Patricia G. Greene, formerly the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson.…
By Michael Chmura | October 20, 2014
Babson Entrepreneurship Division Chair and Professor Candida Brush has received the Karl Vesper Entrepreneurship Pioneer Award. The Vesper award is given each year in conjunction with the Experiential Classroom to an individual who epitomizes the concept of an ‘academic entrepreneur’ — a person who with passion and perseverance has enabled entrepreneurship to expand both in…
By Babson Faculty | February 22, 2013
This post originally appeared on Forbes. By: Candida Brush Chair, Entrepreneurship Division For the first time in 13 years, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study of 59 economies shows that women are creating businesses at a greater rate than men in three economies and in four others, the rates are nearly equal. In Ghana, Nigeria…
By Michael Chmura | June 11, 2012
Most people would say “no” to this question- but this is largely because entrepreneurship is narrowly defined as ‘starting a business’- by this definition, a comparatively small population of people are entrepreneurs. The United States Global Entrepreneurship Monitor http://www.babson.edu/Academics/centers/blank-center/global-research/gem/Documents/GEM%20USA%20Executive%20Report%202010.pdf shows that only about 7.7% of the US population is actively engaged in starting a…
By Michael Chmura | June 7, 2012
Last week I had the pleasure of teaching a seminar for the top Entrepreneurial Winning Women who have been recognized by Ernst and Young. These women are successful in every way, at the top of their game, and have sales of a million to tens of millions. They have businesses in every sector- software, fitness,…
By Michael Chmura | June 2, 2012
The recent reports about jobs raises a question about how entrepreneurial businesses actually grow. Traditionally, policy-makers, academic researchers, entrepreneurs and governments measure the number of full time jobs created as the single most important mark of economic growth. Clearly when companies increase the number of full time employees, this translates into an impact on many…
By Michael Chmura | May 23, 2012
I recently completed a webinar reporting the findings of our Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Women’s Report. This study compared women’s and men’s entrepreneurship in 59 economies around the world. One of the key findings is that women tend to close their businesses because they have challenges in getting funding. We know from earlier research on…
By Michael Chmura | December 16, 2011
Wednesday we released the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Women’s Report on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. This report is the most comprehensive research on attitudes and behaviors of men and women entrepreneurs in the world. Prof. Donna Kelley of Babson College presented a summary of the report which notes that there are 104 million early…
By | January 26, 2010
New Zealand is the country of small businesses and the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. This past week I traveled from Auckland, to Wellington, to Dunedin and up through the lake country of the South Island. Of the 50 million sheep in this country, I think I have seen about 250,000 (give or take…
By Michael Chmura | November 19, 2009
I had been with Professor Brush to attend the JASVE conference in Niigata, Japan.(See her two recent blog entries – #1 and #2).The conference’s theme for this year was “New Venture Creation and Regional Economies (roughly translated),” and it is certainly a reflection of the long-held concerns about bi-polarization of economic development and activities between…