Education and Teaching

Education and Teaching articles seek to improve entrepreneurial education through sharing new teaching methods, exercises, simulations, course structures, etc. The article should focus on communicating best practices in the classroom. Its emphasis is on providing new skills, knowledge and insights to educators at all levels (K-12, Community College, Undergraduate and Graduate)

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What a Viral Music Video Can Teach us About Collaborating

During COVID, thousands of musicians and others from around the world collaborated remotely on a music video, providing a great case study on how to work with people from many disciplines and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Douglas Orzolek , AnnMarie Thomas , Clare Howard , Taylor Casey , Luke Tozour and Damian Kulash

 ‘Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis’ Course Energizes Students

The Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis course works well for students pursuing careers in real estate, business development, consulting, banking, and other fields. This spring, the Schulze School of Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Jay Ebben and Jack Dempsey

Family Business Professors: 40 Ways to Energize Your Class

  For family business professors and teachers, August means finalizing plans to engage students in the classroom. Here are free classroom exercises, interviews, case studies and other resources Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Mat Hughes

Learning How Family Business Leaders Make Decisions Through Interviews

This exercise allows students to apply core family business concepts to a real-world business context. In this exercise, students interview a family business owner and present their findings both as Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: John Rogers , Carol Wittmeyer and Clay Dibrell

Disruptors v. Defenders: Course-Length Corporate Entrepreneurship Simulation

Disruptors v. Defenders is a virtual, team-based entrepreneurship immersion simulation fueled by individual work and team coordination, spanning an entire course term. This exercise is designed to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: John H. Wilson

Building Bridges Between Artists and Business Entrepreneurs: Facilitating Creative Deviance

A University of Arkansas program aims to show both business and arts students how to think more boldly and deviate from the norm. Arts entrepreneur. Cultural entrepreneur. Self-employed creative. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Adrienne Callander and Michael Cummings

Team Exercise: How Parenting Styles Affect The Next Generation

  Because the family and business are inextricably intertwined in family businesses, parenting plays a critical role in shaping the next generation and their contribution to the family business. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Isabel C Botero

Professors and Experts: Would You Like Your Articles to be Read?

About half of articles written by academics are never cited. That's because they are dry, difficult to understand and of interest only to other academics. An old joke says that if a doctoral student Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Catherine Buday and James C Wetherbe

Toys with Wings: Creating Value through Collaborative Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning

In recent years, more universities have been integrating Entrepreneurial Minded Learning (EML) into the engineering curriculum. This learning approach aims to develop an entrepreneurial mindset that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Jonathan Han , Natalia Han , Curtis Abel and Ahmet Can Sabuncu

Designing and Experiencing the Family Business Advisory

This exercise gives students hands-on experience as family business advisors. Students are presented with a case of a family business and are required to take the role of various types of advisors; Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Marta Widz