What if we measured the effectiveness of education — any education — by the impact on human lives? What if we said an MBA degree isn’t about earning power and recruiting, but thinking power and effectiveness and getting things done;…
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Business Education
Pop quiz: What can a college student, an entrepreneurial grad student, a working mother escapee from the cubicle job world, and a 60-year-old business owner have in common on the subject of job seeking at a bad time? Read on….
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Many long years ago, during the last weeks of a two-year MBA program, I was in a class that ended up discussing what we had and hadn’t learned. Disappointments came up. I was an outsider, I was happy with having…
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Let’s say you’re in your early to middle 30s. You graduated from college in the middle 1990s. You got into the wild world of Web business close to the beginning. You got caught up in it. You learned, you led,…
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Do you think this is true: education trains people to do what’s been done before. It’s essentially a system that reinforces conformity and the way things have always been done. The new ideas and true innovations are more likely to…
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Last week I got an email from Chris Hearse, of studentbusinesses.com, asking my take on “what students and universities could do to prepare for a world in business.” And then on a breezy refreshing Saturday-after-the holiday in Bend, Oregon, I…
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Watch out. Entrepreneurship might be contagious. I see it a lot these days. A lot of my family members are involved in it. Then I go over to the University of Oregon a few blocks from my office, where I…
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The board room had maybe 15 or 20 people in it, most of us judges, some of us faculty and organizers, for a lunch meeting just before the presentations and judging started. Outside the windows, the campus of the University…
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Answering a complaint: no I really don’t think you need a business degree to start a company. I don’t have any hard evidence that people who have degrees are more successful than people who don’t — although I have to…
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One of the highlights of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford is the documentary on the previous year’s Entrepreneurship Week. If by any chance you can’t see the YouTube direct, click here for the link.
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