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'Tommie Tank' Helps Students Learn to Finance Ventures

The course improved students’ confidence, helped build a student-alumni community, and enhanced students’ connection to what raising money actually means. Two-and-a-half years ago, we set out to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jay Ebben

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

Entrepreneurship Education Must Start Before College

While technology continues to replace human endeavor, society hasn’t yet discerned how to address its impact on future workforce economic well-being. Until recently the impact has primarily been on Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Roy Carriker

Why Do Students Need to Learn and Experience Entrepreneurship?

Students need to be prepared for a world that has an unprecedented and every accelerating rate of change.  University entrepreneurship curricular and co-curricular programs provide a great Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Ken Harrington

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

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

Many of us may remember the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books from childhood. In these tales, the story develops to a point and presents a scenario choice to the reader. Depending on the choice Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

Future Family Business Owners Can Learn to Manage Conflict

Conflict is inevitable in family-run businesses.  Learning how to manage it and channel it productively is an important skill for entrepreneurship students who may someday manage their own Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

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

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 Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Michael Morris