Roadside MBA Trip #1 began in Memphis, Tennessee and ended in Omaha, Nebraska. Our trip began, as any Great American Journey should, by spending a … [More]
Road Trip Archives
Trip #2: Denver to Oklahoma City
Despite, you know, being economists, the three of us do have our limits on how much economics we can take over a short … [More]
Trip #3: Charlotte to Atlanta
Roadside MBA Trip #3 took place in May 2011. We flew into Charlotte and out of Atlanta, and in between visited Hickory, NC, Johnson City, TN, … [More]
Trip #4: Missoula to Portland
Road Trip #4 took place in August 2011, and went from Missoula, Montana to Portland, Oregon. Along the way, we visited a composting business in … [More]
Trip #5: Chicago to Cincinnati
Road Trip #5 took place in April 2012, and went from Chicago to Cincinnati. Highlights included an outdoor advertising firm in Bloomington, Illinois, … [More]
Trip #6: Atlanta to New Orleans
Dothan, Alabama might be our favorite city. There, we found two amazingly interesting businesses, as well as the Peanut Capital of the World... or, at … [More]
Trip #7: San Francisco to Las Vegas
Roadside MBA Trip #7 went from San Francisco to Las Vegas, and was accompanied by a professional TV crew. Let's bust out some adjectives to see if we
Blog Highlights
The Roadside MBA Multimedia Project Wins Gold!
We just found out that the Roadside MBA Multimedia Project — Big Lessons from America’s Small Businesses — won “gold” in the News & Research Video category of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Western district awards. We beat out Cal and the UC system. A hearty congratulations to everyone at Stanford […]
Oyer in today’s New York Times
Paul Oyer was featured in today’s New York Times Frequent Flier column, discussing the journeys that led to the Roadside MBA! Check it out here.
Schaefer on HBR.org: “It Depends”
Scott Schaefer’s blog post on Roadside MBA ran on the Harvard Business Review web site last week. A small excerpt: What happens when you put three business professors in a rental car and send them out to talk to owners and managers of small- and medium-sized businesses? Would they discover their MBA frameworks to be […]
Roadside MBA Launches Column on Inc.com
We have interviewed 100+ small businesses in the last few years, but only had space for maybe 45 in our book. What to do with the great stories, insights, and “It Depends” examples from the other 55+? Our friends at Inc.com have been kind enough to bring us on as columnists, and we’re pleased to […]
Mazzeo and Schaefer on CBS This Morning
Mike Mazzeo and Scott Schaefer enjoyed chatting with hosts Anthony Mason and Vinita Nair (Northwestern alum!) on CBS This Morning last Saturday. Big fun in the Big Apple, and you can catch the video here.
The Economist Reviews Roadside MBA
Roadside MBA got a (mostly) nice review in The Economist this week. Here’s a snip: The book… succeeds admirably in its main aim, providing fresh examples to illustrate the basic tenets of MBA theory. In doing so it cleverly addresses two different markets: MBA students who want fresh grist to their mills and roadside businesspeople […]
Roadside on the Road in October
It has been very enjoyable to get out and speak to people about the insights from Roadside MBA – over the past couple of weeks, I have had the opportunity to participate in a few nice events and tell some of our best stories. Several of these events have been organized through the Kellogg Alumni […]
Roadside MBA on Monster.com
Roadside MBA has two new pieces on Monster.com’s Resource Center. In “Visiting America’s Small Business Innovators,” Scott Schaefer gives an overview of the Roadside MBA project, and hits a couple of highlights from the road. In “Screen Candidates to Find the Elusive Needle in a Haystack,” there’s a short book excerpt about our visit to […]