Researchers studying challenges female and minority entrepreneurs face in rural areas

The research, led by Heather Stephens, professor of resource economics and management and director of the West Virginia University Regional Research Institute, aims to identify what factors could support entrepreneurship for women and minorities, as well as barriers that deter them from starting their own businesses.

Thunderbird at ASU continues helping Afghan businesswomen as Taliban takes over Afghanistan

Thunderbird School of Global Management, a unit of Arizona State University, began supporting Afghan women’s economic empowerment in 2005, after the fall of the Taliban, through a program called Project Artemis. As an international business school, our team is working…