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Check out the lastest articles in Entrepreneurship below.

Apple still gets nod in Cutthroat market

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

October 7th, 2011
Financial Post interviews Professor Brian Anderson about Apple Inc. CEO - Tim Cook and growth in the Asian Market.

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Can schools mint entrepreneurs? - Toronto Star

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

September 8th, 2011
Toronto Star interviews Stewart Thornhill and profiles Ivey alumnus Rahim Fazal about teaching entrepreneurship

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Wanted: Good Advisors - Financial Post

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

When The Beatles recorded ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’ in 1967, they didn’t have entrepreneurs in mind. But while the term “advisory boards” is often tossed around entrepreneurial circles with little regard to its meaning or purpose, they can provide the foundation upon which a structurally sound business is built.

Complicating matters, however, is entrepreneurs commonly do not know what makes a good advisory board member, where to find one, how to convince them to join or even what purpose they might serve.

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Forget Zuckerberg, how about Fazal? - Financial Post

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

The entrepreneurial world is loaded with bright, usually young,  people who dream of one day founding the next Google, Facebook, or something uniquely new and revolutionary.

While many are successful in their own right, not many make it to that level. However, one bright young Canadian is nearing that point and along the way is helping other young Canadians.

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Calling All Canadian Business Families

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

Ivey’s Business Families Centre is committed to helping family-controlled businesses remain entrepreneurial, a key factor in ensuring long term viability, and to fostering deeper understanding of the strengths and challenges of the business, the family and the complex relationship that ties one to the other.

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On the Case: Meet the New Neighbours

Author’s Name: Ivey Entrepreneurship Institute Team

Even the best-laid plans don’t always work. Just ask the executives at Vancouver’s Fraser Land Development. They’re starting work on the third phase of a condo project that targets young professionals. Their problem? After succeeding in hitting their target market in the project’s first two phases, they’re now seeing more families asking about sales. Designs will have to change if they serve this unexpected market. It will be costly. Should they adapt to the new trend, or stick to their guns?

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