Entrepreneurship in Brazil My full interview with entrepreneurs William and Winston Ling is now available online at CEE’s site. From the interview: “In the second half of 2010, everything was doing great: we were beating records year after year and expanding the business. Profitability was fine and the outlook was fine. But we sat down […]
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My talk at the 2012 Atlas Summit in Washington, DC, is now online. My themes: * Our schizophrenic public policy culture: health, sex, religion, money * What wealth is: tangible, intangible, and institutional assets * Entrepreneurism as a cultural asset * Objectivism’s entrepreneurial ethic * Principled strategy in a mixed economy * Three challenges: abstractness,
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Troubles mounting in Argentina due to a government plagued by corruption scandals and heavy-handed, dysfunctional economic intervention and controls.
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Entrepreneurship and MBA Education The first issue of Kaizen for this new academic year features my interview with Jeff Sandefer. I met with Mr. Sandefer in Austin, Texas to discuss his meteoric entrepreneurial career in oil and gas and his ambitious plans for MBA education. Also featured in this issue of Kaizen [pdf] are student
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What makes entrepreneurs tick? Creative knowledge, ambition, initiative, trial and error, perseverance, and more. This mini lecture is part of a new series of short, instructional lectures on entrepreneurship. Related: My nine-page journal essay, “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] (Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring 2009, 49-57. Also available at the Social
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I spoke on Educating for Entrepreneurship at the Fórum da Libertade in Porto Alegre, Brazil this week. Over 4,500 people attended the two-day conference with many high profile Brazilian business, cultural, and political leaders. My talk was one of two in a panel on the theme of Education: Obey, Think, or Create? The panel was
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Entrepreneurial Research Science The latest issue of Kaizen features my interview with physicist R. Paul Drake. I met with Dr. Drake in Michigan to discuss the realities of professional science — multi-tasking, grant-writing, travel, and learning from failure — the adequacies and inadequacies of American science education, and the likely future of America’s pre-eminent position
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I’ll be giving an invited talk at the 25th anniversary of the Liberty Forum, the largest liberty-oriented conference in Latin America. The conference is to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil on April 16 and 17. The overall theme of the conference program is 2037: What Brazil will be yours? I’ll be speaking on Education:
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