Displaying all 3 Episode of The Owner's Box @WashU Olin with the tag “entrepreneurship”.
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Tactics from the Owner's Box: Lessons on Enterpreneurship with John McDonnell
June 12th, 2025 | Season 2 | 6 mins 39 secs
aircraft, boeing, commercial airline, entrepreneurship, mcdonnell douglas, military, st. louis
In today’s episode we get to listen in to a short snippet of a recent conversation I had with John McDonnell, the leader and owner behind McDonnell Douglas which eventually sold to Boeing about what he says at the start of the company, and what it might imply for the rest of us.
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Tactics from the Owner's Box: From Side Hustle to Entrepreneur
May 8th, 2025 | Season 2 | 8 mins 56 secs
business school, entrepreneurship, gig economy, margarita tsoutsoura, uber
For some people, a gig is a short-term step to something different, something bigger, an unspoken plan still not yet disclosed in the space unknowing between the front and back seat. To gain some insight into this space, I want to introduce you to Margarita Tsoutsoura, my colleague in the finance department of Olin Business School. Margarita’s research reminds us that the path toward starting something isn’t always getting a degree in entrepreneurship or spinning something out of an established company. Sometimes, the path is about being young, flexible, and willing to tinker within a flexible career path—the gig economy—that didn’t exist in the same way 20 years earlier.
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Tactics from the Owner's Box: Navigating the Complexity of Partnership
January 2nd, 2025 | Season 2 | 6 mins 21 secs
entrepreneurship, fraiche wine group, jeremy king, partnership, romance
Whether in starting a kid's venture, or taking the leap into entrepreneurship, this story is about about what it means to partner with someone in a venture. How do you pick the right person? When is that partnership life-giving, and supportive of the business, and what is it strategically complex or even destructive? In today's tactics from "The Owner's Box" -- we are going to revisit a few voices from Season 1 to learn how they approached partnership, and what it might mean for your own venture.