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I Banned Cell Phones In My Class: What Happened Next

UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Howard Aldrich said focus and grades improved once cell phones were out of the picture…and students engaged with one another more.  Schools everywhere are talking Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Kimberly Eddleston

From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The New Age of Entrepreneurial Education

Entrepreneurship teachers can't afford to be bystanders in today's technology-driven world.  If we are bystanders, our students follow suit. If they are bystanders, we have not fulfilled our Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Doan Winkel

Bisociation Teaching Exercise Spurs Business Model Innovation 

This teaching exercise focuses on generating novel combinations of existing business models, products/services and markets. Diverse paths lead to entrepreneurial opportunities and innovative business Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Dante Di Gregorio , Joel Ryman and Jennifer Kuan

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...

Category: Commentary

Author: Fred Rose

 ‘Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis’ Course Energizes Students

The Entrepreneurial Deal Analysis course works well for students pursuing careers in real estate, business development, consulting, banking, and other fields. This spring, the Schulze School of Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Jay Ebben and Jack Dempsey

Family Business Professors: 40 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...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Mat Hughes

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...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Brian Janz and James C Wetherbe

Building Bridges Between Artists and Business Entrepreneurs: Facilitating Creative Deviance

A University of Arkansas program aims to show both business and arts students how to think more boldly and deviate from the norm. Arts entrepreneur. Cultural entrepreneur. Self-employed creative. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Adrienne Callander and Michael Cummings

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...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Isabel C Botero

Professors and Experts: Would You Like Your Articles to be Read?

About half of articles written by academics are never cited. That's because they are dry, difficult to understand and of interest only to other academics. An old joke says that if a doctoral student Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Catherine Buday and James C Wetherbe