Nancy Forster-Holt

Nancy Forster-Holt's research interests include exit of small business owners from their business, including valuation, acquisition strategies, and ENDrepreneurship (gerontology, retirement, aging of business owners); innovation in Main Street (and family) businesses ("intrepreneurship"); as well as gender, business ownership and retirement.

She is a "pracademic" who's always interested in research that informs the practice. Not only is she involved in new ventures, but she also works in support of URI’s Age Friendly University, and she engages with OLLI members in her classrooms for workshops on ageism in entrepreneurship. Using her research on ENDrepreneurship and mortality, she also offers workshops to family-owned businesses in collaboration with the RISBDC. In a recent paper as the lead author, she and her co-authors developed a mortality awareness model for incumbent business leaders, using the novel extension of a palliative care lens to family business succession. She also presented her work on the TEDxURI stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huFLz8M7id8