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Entrepreneurs Can Benefit Society

  Entrepreneurs play a huge role in society by bringing underappreciated products to market -- products that can help people but that big companies are too busy or disinterested to develop. In Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eden Blair

Social Entrepreneurship: Doing Well by Doing Good

  Can a socially conscious company be true both to its mission and to its bottom line? If there's conflict, what gets priority? It's a difficult balancing act and missteps can cost customers, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Ken Harrington , Dave Feldman and Nicholas Vitalari

Empathy is Central to Entrepreneurship

  Successful entrepreneurs not only identify problems that must be solved, but also empathize with the people affected by them. In this discussion, Babson College's Yasu Yamakawa and Brett Smith Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa and Brett Smith

Are Business Plans Really Necessary?

  For a new venture, a business plan is an essential part of attracting investment and ensuring success.  Or is it? In this spirited discussion, reminiscent of "Point/Counterpoint," Eapen Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Eapen Chacko and Brent Goldfarb

The Next Generation Can Help the Family Firm Innovate

  Much has been written about how family businesses can have transition problems when the founder's children take over.  Best Buy founder Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson of the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson

Of Wine & Sharks: When Entrepreneurs and Investors Clash

Shark Tank is a popular resource for many entrepreneurship educators. While a number of outstanding episodes can be used in the classroom, a two-episode arc focused on Copa Di Vino -- a winery that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Lou Marino

Helping Students Shake Up the Marketing Mix

Sleepovers at mattress stores, banks that allow depositors to set their own maturity dates on certificates of deposits, a bowling alley that charges by the number of pins that the bowler knocks Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Michael Morris

How Lowell Wakefield Made Crab King

While king crab fishing is among the most dangerous and lucrative activities in the world, it is only recent technology that makes it possible to extract this bounty from the sea, from global Read More...

Category: Case Studies

Author: Sharon Alvarez

Online Mentorship and Teamwork Best Practices

This resource is meant to help educators interested in adding mentorship or team-based exercises to their courses, especially when teaching online. The context here is my entrepreneurship MOOC on Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Charles Eesley

The $10 Business Plan Competition

This exercise is a semester-long project that gives students the opportunity to experience the excitement and challenges associated with identifying an opportunity, developing a startup plan and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Lou Marino and Craig Armstrong