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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Entrepreneurial Resilience in New Orleans My full interview with Jay Lapeyre is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. Lapeyre is the CEO of The Laitram Corporation. I met with him in New Orleans to discuss natural disasters and corrupt politics, leadership, and the state of American manufacturing in our global economy.
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Four breakthrough trends that will transform the next generation. An energizing talk by Peter Diamondis, founder of the X Prize Foundation and head of Singularity University: computing power and access to it, robotics, artificial life, and personal space travel. Plus how to leverage the unbelievable amounts of untapped human potential out there. (Thanks to R.L.
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From Wired magazine’s profile of Reid Hoffman. I like this section where Hoffman says that each one of us needs to “think about our lives as entrepreneurs, using this playbook as a way five years from now to be in more control of my life, create more value in myself and the world around me,
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