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Entrepreneurship& Small Business examines how firms develop from start-up, both tracing growth and exploring failure. It studies entrepreneurs – what motivates them, how they manage and lead, and how certain defining characteristics they possess can help shape the businesses they run. The book outlines good management practice for students and encourages and develops entrepreneurial skills. Clearly structured and accessibly presented, the comprehensive coverage includes accounting control and decision-making, as well as chapters on family businesses, corporate, international and social entrepreneurship. Case insights, long case studies and discussion scenarios are used to practically demonstrate how concepts are implemented in successful small and growing companies. Burns’ text is ideal for undergraduates, MBA students, and students taking specialist postgraduate modules on Entrepreneurship, Enterprise, Small Business Management and New Venture Creation within business and management courses.
Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Start-up, Growth and Maturity
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EXPLORING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, a student text with data CD, provides a pleasing visual presentation and uses relevant examples to make the material engaging for students. Designed for middle/junior high school, students learn concepts and processes associated with successful entrepreneurial performance, which gives them a realistic view of entrepreneurship. A consistent use of easy-to-find features in each chapter will help students relate to prior knowledge, their experiences, and other core subjects. Based on real-life experiences of teenage entrepreneurs, the text teaches critical thinking skills by using relevant activities. Students who use EXPLORING ENTREPRENEURSHIP develop career decision-making skills that they can use for a lifetime, practice problem solving, integrate the study of personal finance topics as appropriate, and become more aware of the role of entrepreneurs and free enterprise in the workplace of the 21st century. As a culminating activity, students work in teams to develop a proposal to start a new business, a self-analysis (including the willingness to take risks), an analysis of the business situation, and a description of the way the business will operate. A general explanation of the financing of the business throughout the first three years of operation is also taught. Students are encouraged to apply entrepreneurial skills to a single sales/service activity to be run as a real business venture. The sales/service activity may focus on any subject of interest to the team and should involve all the members of the team.
Exploring Entrepreneurship and Economics
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New times create new needs – and new needs require new solutions. The New Pioneers is a practical guide for capitalists and idealists on how to navigate in the new economic world order.
It is about the social megatrends that are shaping our lives in new ways and creating a new face of capitalism. And it is about the pioneers that are paving the way for the new business revolution: this century’s generation of visionary leaders, social entrepreneurs and social intrapreneurs.
‘Hardcore business people are realising that they can increase their profits by incorporating social responsibility into their business, and heartcore idealists are realising that the use of market methods helps them meet their social goals successfully,’ argues Tania Ellis.
With a wide array of cases from all over the world Tania Ellis explains the key principles of sustainable business success. Read The New Pioneers to gain insight into the new rules that are paving the way for business unusual – for the benefit of humanity and the bottom line.
Learn more about The New Pioneers and join the movement of sustainable businesses and social entrepreneurs at www.thenewpioneers.biz
The New Pioneers: Sustainable business success through social innovation and social entrepreneurship
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College students and professionals already in the workforce are flooding university classrooms, looking for information on how to build their own businesses rather than going the traditional route of working for someone else. However, ask successful business owners and they’ll say that there is more to the entrepreneurial life than just knowing how to run a business. In Crossing the Road to Entrepreneurship, Author Bert L. Wolstein, master entrepreneur, shares lessons on how to start, grow, and maintain successful businesses.
Crossing the Road to Entrepreneurship
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“Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship, 3E, International Edition” is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind text for the emerging business arena of entrepreneurship and innovation. Built on years of research and experience, this unique text employs a clear and informative how-to approach and features sections and chapters organized according to a summary model of the corporate entrepreneurship process. A professional format and look make the text especially appealing and appropriate for sophisticated readers and experienced business professionals. This groundbreaking text fulfills a real business need, because many executives consider entrepreneurial behavior a key to sustaining their companies’ competitive advantage, but few possess genuine knowledge of the subject or understand how to apply it. The Third Edition of “Corporate On& Entrepreneurship Edition” rovides detailed, actionable answers to the ‘what,’ ‘how,’ ‘where,’ and ‘who’ questions surrounding corporate entrepreneurship in today’s dynamic business environment.
Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation. by Jeffrey Covin, Donald Kuratko, Michael Morris
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Profiles in Entrepreneurship showcases success through the experiences of 29 highly successful entrepreneurs in their own words. Learn about topics like opportunity recognition, risk assessment, leadership, and how to compensate for limited resources from the first-hand accounts of leaders like Herb Kelleher, Red McCombs, and Katie Brickman Harvey. Each profile includes a look at their driving motivation, tactics, and strategies, highlights of their professional experiences, and a question and answer session. Also included is 2 hours of video–where the profiled entrepreneurs discuss their experiences as if they were addressing your own class. Profiles in Entrepreneurship provides the real-world experience and wisdom in a way that both engages and informs.
Profiles in Entrepreneurship: Leaving More Than Footprints
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Increasingly, the availability of entrepreneurship education is becoming a factor in college choice as fine arts students demand training that helps them create an arts-based career after graduation. For too long, the arts academy has ignored the long-term career outcomes of its graduates and has only recently begun to meaningfully address how students can earn a living as working artists and arts entrepreneurs. Written to address this challenge, Disciplining the Arts explores the policy, programming, and curricular issues in the emerging field of arts entrepreneurship. By articulating the need, purpose and outcomes for arts entrepreneurship education, listening to graduates and identifying models, this essay collection begins an important conversation on preparing students for arts self-employment.
Disciplining the Arts: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Context
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Posted by Blogmaster in Entrepreneurship, tags: Affairs, Biotechnology, Company, Entrepreneurship, Exit, Financing, Formation, from, Intellectual, Organization, Partnering, Property, Regulatory, Reimbursement, Science, Solutions, StartUp, Team
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Biotechnology Entrepreneurship: From Science to Solutions fills a critical gap in the biotechnology industry. For all the resources on how to start companies and on how to manage established companies in other sectors, there is a dearth of material on unique and critical issues in starting biotechnology companies, as well as managing the transition from start-up to established company. It is to this gap that Biotechnology Entrepreneurship is directed. Topics covered include:
o Why Start a Biotechnology Company?
o Company Formation and Organization
o Building Your Team
o Intellectual Property Protection Strategy
o Financing Your Company
o Partnering With Industry
o Licensing and Technology Transfer
o Regulatory Affairs
o Roadmap to Reimbursement and Access
o Working Toward a Successful Exit By combining the voices of a diverse set of industry insiders with extensive experience in biotechnology commercialization, Biotechnology Entrepreneurship prepares nascent founders, managers, investors, and other biotechnology company stakeholders to position themselves and their companies for commercial success.
Biotechnology Entrepreneurship From Science to Solutions — Start-up, Company Formation and Organization, Team, Intellectual Property, Financing, Partnering, … Regulatory Affairs, Reimbursement, Exit
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Posted by Blogmaster in Entrepreneurship, tags: Capitalism, Count, Don't, Entrepreneurship, Funds, Heroes, Idealism, Illusions, Indexing, Investment, Mutual, Reflections
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Q&A with Author John C. Bogle
In Don’t Count on It, you discuss how we deceive ourselves, particularly with numbers. Can you describe what you consider to be the absolute worst illusion investors fall prey to?
The most damaging illusion for investors is their belief that they capture the stock market’s return. For example, if the stock market provides an annual return of 7%, we know that the average investor’s return will fall short of that by the amount of fees they pay. Those fees amount to about 2.5% annually for the typical investor, so their net return is down to 4.5%. Taxes might knock another 1% off of that, reducing the investor’s annual return to 3.5% — just half of the market’s return. If you compound those figures over 50 years, $1 grows by $4.60 at 3.5%, and by $28.50 at 7%. In other words, the investor’s cumulative return is less than 20% of the market’s return. That’s an enormous gap; one that can easily mean the difference between achieving one’s long-term financial goals and falling well short of them.
If you could change just one thing about the practice of capitalism today, what would it be, and why is it the most important?
The biggest problem with capitalism today is our tremendous focus on the short-term. Institutional investors–who own 70% of our corporations–are predominantly concerned with whether or not the quarterly earnings of the companies they own will meet the stock market’s expectations. As a result, our corporate managers move heaven and earth to try to meet those targets, so as to keep their firm’s stock price high and maximize their stock-based compensation. But building corporate value over the long-term is hard; there are no quick or easy shortcuts. And as the past decade has demonstrated, decisions made to boost earnings and stock prices in the short-term tend to end up destroying shareholder value over the long-term. The sooner we can realign our focus from the short-term to the long-term, the better for all concerned.
What do you think about ETFs?
I like some; I am appalled by others. Specifically, I favor low cost ETFs that are focused on broadly diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds that investors can hold for a lifetime. These ETFs should provide investors with their fair share of whatever the returns our financial markets will provide. That’s a winner’s game.
On the other hand, I’m not happy with ETFs–the vast majority–that exist to enable investors to speculate, to play their hunches on which country or market sector will outperform or underperform over the short term. The turnover rates are enormous, holding periods are measured in mere days, and costs are far higher than those levied by broad market ETFs. That kind of speculation is a loser’s game. So I believe that ETFs have the potential to play a significant role in the portfolios of long-term investors. Unfortunately, to this point their use seems to be dominated by those engaged in far more destructive investment approaches.
You talk about inspiring the next generation of leaders and your mentors in Don’t Count on It. What did your mentors have in common that you think is the most important trait in inspiring young people today? In other words, how can each of us be better mentors?
I think at the most basic level, my mentors were good people; men of strong character who loved their work. They realized that the work they did made a difference in people’s lives, and they did that work with a great deal of ability, pride, and professionalism. They woke up every day and tried their best to make the world a little bit better. That’s what I took away from the relationships I had with my mentors, and the extent that I’ve been able to emulate them, I think, explains a great deal of what I’ve been able to accomplish in my own career.
My views on mentoring have a lot in common with the themes of Don’t Count on It. That is, these relationships are largely built upon trust, and attempts to quantify them are doomed to failure. Mentoring, in my mind, is less about helping someone fill out a checklist of accomplishments, and much more about passing along the immeasurable qualities one needs to be successful in their field –character, professionalism, honesty, intellectual curiosity, even humor. If you possess sufficient amounts of those characteristics, you’re likely to be successful in whatever field you work in.
Praise for Don’t Count On It!
“This collection of Jack Bogle’s writings couldn’t be more timely. The clarity of his thinking—and his insistence on the relevance of ethical standards—are totally relevant as we strive to rebuild a broken financial system. For too many years, his strong voice has been lost amid the cacophony of competing self-interests, misdirected complexity, and unbounded greed. Read, learn, and support Jack’s mission to reform the industry that has been his life’s work.”
—PAUL VOLCKER, Chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979–1987)
“Jack Bogle has given investors throughout the world more wisdom and plain financial ‘horse sense’ than any person in the history of markets. This compendium of his best writings, particularly his post-crisis guidance, is absolutely essential reading for investors and those who care about the future of our society.”
—ARTHUR LEVITT, former Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
“Jack Bogle is one of the most lucid men in finance.”
—NASSIM N.TALEB, PhD, author of The Black Swan
“Jack Bogle is one of the financial wise men whose experience spans the post–World War II years. This book, encompassing his insights on financial behavior, pitfalls, and remedies, with a special focus on mutual funds, is an essential read. We can only benefit from his observations.”
—HENRY KAUFMAN, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.
“It was not an easy sell. The joke at first was that only finance professors invested in Vanguard’s original index fund. But what a triumph it has been. And what a focused and passionate drive it took: it is a zero-sum game and only costs are certain. Thank you, Jack.”
—JEREMY GRANTHAM, Cofounder and Chairman, GMO
“On finance, Jack Bogle thinks unconventionally. So, this sound rebel turns out to be right most of the time. Meanwhile, many of us sometimes engage in self-deception. So, this book will set us straight. And in the last few pages, Jack writes, and I agree, that Peter Bernstein was a giant. So is Jack Bogle.”
—JEAN-MARIE EVEILLARD, Senior Adviser, First Eagle Investment Management
Insights into investing and leadership from the founder of The Vanguard Group
Throughout his legendary career, John Bogle-founder of the Vanguard mutual fund group and creator of the first index mutual fund-has helped investors build wealth the right way, while, at the same time, leading a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world.
A collection of essays based on speeches delivered to professional groups and college students in recent years, in Don’t Count on It is organized around eight themes
- Illusion versus reality in investing
- Indexing to market returns
- Failures of capitalism
- The flawed structure of the mutual fund industry
- The spirit of entrepreneurship
- What is enough in business, and in life
- Advice to America’s future leaders
- The unforgettable characters who have shaped his career
Widely acclaimed for his role as the conscience of the mutual fund industry and a relentless advocate for individual investors, in Don’t Count on It, Bogle continues to inspire, while pushing the mutual fund industry to measure up to their promise.
Don’t Count on It!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes
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The secret to sustainable competitive advantage for large organizations in the changing business environment is not simply lowering costs or restructuring for efficiency. Companies need to be adaptable, flexible, speedy, creative, innovative and opportunistic. In short, they need to act in an entrepreneurial manner. Corporate Entrepreneurship is about the ability of a large organization to make the most of commercial opportunities, to innovate, to do things differently. It is about developing an organizational and strategic capability to not just manage change, but to embrace and action it. Paul Burns’ innovative text considers the personal qualities of successful entrepreneurs and the manner in which they do business. He then demonstrates how these qualities can be replicated to form an organizational architecture that encourages entrepreneurship at all levels within a company. Corporate Entrepreneurship pulls together many themes (from leadership, culture, creativity, innovation, strategy, and marketing) in a coherent and accessible form.
Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organization
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