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This study focuses on slack resources in entrepreneurial firms and how venture capital (VC) and angel investors can bring excess resources into play to enhance a firm’s profit and performance.

Realizing that 90 % of street children that are brought to homes and institutions run away within two days and choose for the streets again, the Mobile School Group (MSG) has developed innovative educational materials and teaching methods that are particularly adapted to life in the streets.

Science-based start-ups play a key role in our modern, knowledge-based economies. As the successful Belgian academic spin-offs Thrombogenics, Ablynx and Materialize show, technology companies have the potential to create jobs and drive state-of-the-art innovations.

What impact is the economic crisis having on the Belgian consumer’s buying behaviour? To discover the answer, the Vlerick Brand Management Centre conducted a quantitative study of the Belgian consumer in times of crisis. Here are the results of this unique consumer research initiative.

Managers have used Business Analytics (BA) – which is a subset of business intelligence (BI) – to inform their decision making for years. Recent studies point to its growing importance, not only in analyzing past performance but also in identifying opportunities to improve future performance. As business environments become more complex and competitive, managers need to be able to detect – or, even better – predict trends and respond to them early. Companies are giving business analytics increasingly high priority in hopes of gaining an edge on their competitors.

The Production Dice Game is a powerful learning exercise that demonstrates the impact of variability and dependency on throughput and work-in-process inventory. The insights obtained by playing the game can also be extended to a service or supply chain context. The game can be played online, and the software can be downloaded for free.