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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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
This exercise is a semester-long project that gives students the opportunity to experience the excitement and challenges associated with identifying an opportunity, developing a startup plan and Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Lou Marino and Craig Armstrong