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Bisociation Teaching Exercise Spurs Business Model Innovation 
Diverse paths lead to entrepreneurial opportunities and innovative business models. Some entrepreneurs arrive at their destination via a deliberate, rational process of search and causal thinking. Read More...
How to Build an Innovative Mindset
In January 2021 I joined the Great Resignation and took an early retirement from the University of Minnesota (UMN). I had spent 12 years there teaching social entrepreneurship and managing  Read More...
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 ‘Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis’ Course Energizes Students
This spring, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship experimented with a new “Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis” course for undergraduate students. For years we’ve seen a huge student interest in Read More...
Family Business Professors: 34 Ways to Energize Your Class
  For family business professors and teachers, August means finalizing plans to engage students in the classroom. Here are free classroom exercises, interviews, case studies and other resources Read More...
Remembering Gordon Davis, Founder of Management Information Systems
Gordon Davis and Jim Wetherbe at the Celebration of 50 Years of MIS at the University of Minnesota in 2018. It takes a Herculean entrepreneurial effort to create and sustain a new academic Read More...
Building Bridges Between Artists and Business Entrepreneurs: Facilitating Creative Deviance
  Arts entrepreneur. Cultural entrepreneur. Self-employed creative. Freelance artist. Whatever the label or concept, recent years have seen increased interest in the intersection of art and Read More...
Team Exercise: How Parenting Styles Affect The Next Generation
  Because the family and business are inextricably intertwined in family businesses, parenting plays a critical role in shaping the next generation and their contribution to the family business. Read More...
Professors and Experts: Would You Like Your Articles to be Read?
An old joke says that if a doctoral student put a $100 bill in his or her dissertation paper that was filed away in the university library, ten years later the $100 bill would still be there. Did you Read More...
Back to School: Resources for an Uncertain Time
Colleges and universities everywhere are grappling with how to teach in fall of 2020. Courses are being offered in online, in-person, and hybrid formats, and many instructors find themselves having Read More...
Integrate LEGO® Serious Play® for Collective Creativity
This classroom exercise integrates LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) during the Ideation process. This exercise helps students to learn the concepts of collective creativity and results in 100% Read More...
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