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The $10 Business Plan Competition

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

How Can We Define 'Innovation'?

Innovation is a kind of Holy Grail in the world today. Companies strive for it, consumers often reward it, and policy-makers say we need more of it. But many people still find themselves asking, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure: Parallels to Entrepreneurship

A short documentary film, "Shackleston's Antarctic Adventure," is a useful resource for teaching and studying entrepreneurship. This documentary follows the daring real-life exploits of Sir Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa

Coin Toss Game Examines Interplay of Skill and Fate

EDITOR'S NOTE: Click here to play an online version of this game, with interactive options. Americans tend to believe that opportunities to get ahead are available for everyone and that people's Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Building Blocks of Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

Over the past 25 years, university academic programs devoted to entrepreneurship have grown remarkably despite a variety of obstacles and challenges. (Kuratko 2005). The number of colleges and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Michael Morris

How to Grow Your Firm the Right Way

For most new business owners, growth is a sign that the business is successful.  But depending on that business's financial structures and its commitment to shareholders, growth can complicate Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

Retooling Products to Reach New Markets: The Lindt Candy Dilemma

OVERVIEW The purpose of this exercise is to help entrepreneurship students understand the importance of retooling products to reach new markets. In this exercise students are required to generate and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Teaching Innovation with the Film 'Objectified'

I'd like to recommend the film Objectified as a useful resource for people teaching and studying entrepreneurship. Objectified is a feature-length documentary film released in 2009. The film examines Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Daniel Forbes

EIX: A Resource for Entrepreneurship Educators and Their Students

Are you looking for high-quality new material to enrich your entrepreneurship courses and freshen up the syllabus? Are you tired of making students pay for subscription resources? Do your students Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

A Dash of Psychopathy May Help Women Entrepreneurs

The term “psychopath” conjures up dark images of serial murderers, straitjackets, stalkers and that maniac in the corner office. It is part of the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Lou Marino and Reg Tucker