Your typical entrepreneurial library—physical or digital—is crowded with books by business luminaries, and full of advice on investment, marketing, hiring, and the like. There is, indisputably, good reason for this: these texts teach concrete, technical strategies that quantifiably boost growth. The utility of philosophical wisdom, on the other hand, is harder to pin down. Abstract […]

When Ellen He looks around the classroom, she’s reminded how far women still have to go. As a female MBA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, she’s in the minority. Barely a quarter of her fellow students at Olin Business School are women—a statistic on par with other top U.S. programs. “This country used […]

The stakes were high. And entrepreneur Preston McGee knew that he was in the hot seat. Based in Washington, D.C., McGee had traveled to New York City to pitch Teleport, his globetrotting networking app, to the New York Jets. His was one of six startups at the Jets Pitch Night, vying for a collaboration deal […]