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I’ve been asked a lot lately about business schools and entrepreneurship, which is why I did this post, last Friday, about one thing wrong in that area; and then this one yesterday, on whether business schools can teach entrepreneurship. That’s become a very interesting discussion. I expect to post on it again, if only just to [...]
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The question continues: study entrepreneurship, or just jump in? Does a degree help? Can anybody teach entrepreneurship in the classroom? Can anybody learn it?
You may have seen this post here from last week, about one problem with entrepreneurship education. That post was enhanced by John Wren’s comment there:
I haven’t seen any research that shows a [...]
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I’m not saying this is the only problem. And, by the way, I’m in favor of entrepreneurship education, when it’s done well. I think it helps … but that’s another post.
It’s a simple story. It’s a real problem with business education concerning entrepreneurship in top institutions. It happens way too often. Not that it’s the only [...]
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If you teach entrepreneurship, please join me tomorrow for a webinar on the top 10 tips in teaching entrepreneurship using business planning. I’m going to be looking back on more than 10 years of teaching starting a business using business plans. I hope I’ve picked up a few tips that might help.
NACCE (that’s National Association [...]
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Comedian Robert Klein has a routine where he grabs a consumer fruit drink that claims “contains 10% fruit juice,” and asks: “What about the other 90 percent?”
And the graduating class of Harvard MBAs last week had a special new code, A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality that 20% of the graduating MBAs [...]
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Adeo Ressi doesn’t like what he calls a slanted field on the deals entrepreneurs get from investors. He says (I’m quoting):
Honestly, I think that the entrepreneur gets a raw deal today, and that this has gotten a lot worse since I started in 1994. Entrepreneurs are victims of a lot of predatory and exploitative behavior.
This [...]
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What if you had to take the classic business plan, developed for an MBA-level venture competition, and shrink it down to 10 pages?
Last Friday I spent a fun and fascinating day as a semi-finals judge at the University of Oregon New Venture Competition. My part of the program was evaluating four ventures developed by MBA [...]
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Blame the business schools? As the culprits roll out of the fancy offices in New York and Washington, it’s hard to resist the temptation. There have been several thoughtful pieces on that in the last couple months, particularly the New York Times on blaming the business schools, and Are Business Schools to Blame posted late [...]
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The New York Times had an interesting piece a few days ago about a live-in entrepreneurship program at Babson college. They called it Dreamers and Doers. Quote: “‘Any school can teach entrepreneurship,’ he says, ‘but at Babson, we live entrepreneurship.’”…
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