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Many entrepreneurship classes focus on student business ideas. The goal of this exercise is to expose students to a variety of tests to validate a business idea quickly: setting up the tests in one Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Ethan Mollick
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 the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eden Blair
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
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 of Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa and Brett Smith
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 Chacko of Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Eapen Chacko and Brent Goldfarb
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 University of St. Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson
Interviewee: Dick Schulze , Ritch Sorenson
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
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
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
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