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How New Solo Entrepreneurs Can Think Through Their Finances

Today people can no longer count on a steady paycheck in a predictable amount from an employer. We're seeing ever-growing numbers of “unintended entrepreneurs” -- once-employed people forced to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Roy Carriker

Action Exercises Engage Students More Fully Than Lectures and Exams

Editor's Note: Click to download Jim Wetherbe's 260-page book on better communication, " So, What's Your Point? " In the business world, concepts (e.g., entrepreneurial innovations) must be explained Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: James C Wetherbe

Design Thinking Makes Great Ideas Viable

Entrepreneurs often start their business with a "good" idea they have that has not been properly vetted by potential customers. As a result, entrepreneurs often invest a great deal of time, effort, Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Brian Janz

Team-Pitch-Quiz Learning Engages Students and Builds Understanding

Many of us remember that one infamous professor back in college whose boring lectures -- even on subjects that should have been interesting -- put everyone to sleep. The traditional old-fashioned Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Lars Oddsson

Why Do Startups Succeed or Fail: Teams, Ideas or Execution?

Startups succeed or fail for a variety of reasons: no market need, not the right team, timing, running out of cash, premature scaling and more. It is important for students to understand this so that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Chuck Sacco

'Becoming da Vinci' Exercise Ignites the Inventor Spirit

Students often have a hard time understanding the difference between an invention and an innovation and, likewise, the difference between incremental and disruptive innovation. I developed this Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kathleen Allen

Classroom Exercise: Creating a Venture in 10 Days

The Innovation Project exercise enables students (within 10 days) to experience every step of the venture creation process (searching, screening, planning, financing, setup, startup, ongoing Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ron Mitchell

Social Entrepreneurship Exercise: Developing your “Theory of Change”

The Theory of Change is a tool that is widely used among social entrepreneurship (SE) practitioners to map out the steps that will lead them to have the intended positive change on society. The Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Sophie Bacq

How Wash U Teaches Students to Think Like Entrepreneurs

How can schools create an environment that offers a continuum of learning and experiences in entrepreneurship, and develop students into entrepreneurs with lifelong skills that can be tapped when Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ken Harrington

Why I Teach Entrepreneurship

Babson Professor Heidi Neck, the 2016 Schulze Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year and author of two books on entrepreneurship pedagogy, believes that future entrepreneurs need teachers who can Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Heidi Neck