ARTICLES WITH TAG: Entrepreneurship

TOP RESEARCH Entrepreneurship
Economy & Finance

Entrepreneurship

by ESSEC Knowledge Editor-in-chief

Entrepreneurship is a trending topic and we constantly hear in the medias about success stories of famous people such as Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, among many others. But do we really know what an entrepreneur is? It seems that opinions on the subject are as many as the reasons that make an entrepreneur successful. The word "entrepreneurship" comes from the French verb "entreprendre" which means "to undertake". To truly understand, we have to study the key actors of the economy further.

For an entrepreneurial ecology
Sustainability

For an entrepreneurial ecology

by Fabrice Cavarretta

Fabrice Cavarretta, Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School, explains how a healthy economic ecosystem is like a tropical forest, containing a wide variety of actors who nourish the ecosystem in different ways.

SME: Dare to Think ‘Strategy’
Strategy

SME: Dare to Think ‘Strategy’

by Laurent Bourgeon

Laurent Bourgeon, Academic Director of the Operational Management and International Operational Management programs at ESSEC Business School, and author of the book Construire avec pertinence la stratégie pour votre PME (Build an Effective Strategy for your SME, Ellipses, 2016), urges small-to-medium enterprises to develop a strategy and shares key insights into how to do it effectively.

Asia in Bloom
Strategy

Asia in Bloom

by Cedomir Nestorovic

Asia remains one of the most attractive regions in the world for international business. As its population and their buying power grow together, political, cultural and economic forces align to perpetually reveal new opportunities.

For an African entrepreneurial area
Society

For an African entrepreneurial area

by Hamid Bouchikhi

Prof. Hamid Bouchikhi, Director of the ESSEC Impact Entrepreneurship Center, asserts that for an African entrepreneurial area to materialize requires in-depth work with the younger generations. Because innovative entrepreneurs are, for the most part, young graduates from higher education, the mental setting up of an African entrepreneurial area calls for massive encouragement of infra-African student mobility...

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