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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Advice for Non-Family Executives in Family Businesses

Ritch Sorenson, Professor of Family Business at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis, once worked at a bank founded by his grandfather.  When it closed, he felt a personal loss that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

'Group Work' Has Lasting Benefits Beyond K-12

Group work has been implemented successfully for years at the K-12 level, but has been slow to catch on within higher education. Group work, or cooperative learning, offers a host of benefits to both Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

The Real Entrepreneurship Competition

Business plan courses are excellent tools to teach theory, but not the practical skills students need to know in order to become entrepreneurs.  Historically, entrepreneurship teaching methods Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Brent Goldfarb , David Kirsch and Dave Kressler

Acres of Diamonds: Advantages of Working in Your Family Business

The purpose of this exercise is to help students understand the advantages and challenges of working in a family business or of being in a business family.  Some students who have Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

Real-Life Drama: Creating a TV Series Based on a Family Business

The purpose of this class project is to help family business students understand the complexities of family business management by requiring them to integrate multiple principles and lessons and to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Babson's Signature Entrepreneurship Course

Babson College’s flagship undergraduate course, “Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME),” was created in 1996 (as Foundation Management Experience) to give all first year Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa

Five Very Fast Ways to Better Understand a New Product or Market

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

Simulation Builds Empathy in Future Social Entrepreneurs

Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton said, “No one can be a changemaker without empathy.” In the rapidly emerging field of social entrepreneurship, both current and future entrepreneurs must strive to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Brett Smith

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