Entrepreneurship

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

  As online crowdsourcing has shown, people will support a proposed business or cause that moves them. For entrepreneurs, the ability to test a proposed product or service's uniqueness and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Dan Holland

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

  Entrepreneurs play a huge role in society by bringing underappreciated products to market -- products that can help people but that big companies are too busy or disinterested to develop. In Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eden Blair

  Can a socially conscious company be true both to its mission and to its bottom line? If there's conflict, what gets priority? It's a difficult balancing act and missteps can cost customers, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Ken Harrington , Dave Feldman and Nicholas Vitalari

  Successful entrepreneurs not only identify problems that must be solved, but also empathize with the people affected by them. In this discussion, Babson College's Yasu Yamakawa and Brett Smith Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa and Brett Smith

  For a new venture, a business plan is an essential part of attracting investment and ensuring success.  Or is it? In this spirited discussion, reminiscent of "Point/Counterpoint," Eapen Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Eapen Chacko and Brent Goldfarb

  Much has been written about how family businesses can have transition problems when the founder's children take over.  Best Buy founder Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson of the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson

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