Introduction : why growth? -- A status report on growth-oriented women entrepreneurs -- What we know about the challenges for growth-oriented women -- A star is born! : financing strategies for nascent entrepreneurs -- First things first : financing strategies for early stage firms -- The white...

You may be familiar with the success stories of Spanx, GoldieBlox, and other women-owned businesses that have taken their markets by storm. But, today, only two percent of women-owned firms generate more than one million dollars annually. The Next Wave is here to help women drive up that number....

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...