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Schools must focus on empowerment and transformation

As more students seek to become entrepreneurs, the schools that teach them must be entrepreneurial themselves.  This means taking a fresh look at what they teach and the skills and mindsets that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Michael Morris

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

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

Online Mentorship and Teamwork Best Practices

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

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

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

Turning Good Business Presentations Into Great Ones

We've all seen a presentation, sales pitch or TV commercial that really struck home. Whether it made us laugh, think or cry (or something in between), powerful messages with the right Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Joan Moser

Want to Give Your Entrepreneurship Students Real-World Experience? Try Consulting Projects

How many professors can say that students talk about what they learned in their class during a job interview? Or that their students routinely save small businesses from the brink of bankruptcy? Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Laura Beohner and Kimberly Karter