Entrepreneurial Resilience in New Orleans Hurricanes, oil spills, and Louisiana politics — the latest issue of Kaizen features my interview with entrepreneur Jay Lapeyre, CEO of The Laitram Corporation. I met with Lapeyre in New Orleans to discuss natural disasters and corrupt politics, leadership, and the state of American manufacturing in our global economy. Also […]
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VC David Rose’s 14-minute TED pitch on pitching to venture capitalists: Summary: Key traits about yourself to communicate: Integrity, Passion, Experience, Knowledge, Skill, Leadership, Commitment, Vision, Realism, Coachability. Content structure: Grabbing their emotional attention, solid data and logical progression, strong ending with believable upside. Plus presentation tips. See also my Kaizen interview with venture capitalist
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Check out Rocket Singh, Salesman of the Year, an engaging movie with a healthy business ethics kick. The main character is a young college graduate with mediocre grades who lands a job at a computer sales company. He is soon confronted with corrupt-but-usual practices in the company, and his naïveté puts him on the fast
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Forthcoming in January 2012. Profiles in Liberty main page.
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Here is a simplified flowchart, developed for my business ethics courses, reflecting my understanding of subprime mortgages’ contribution to the crisis. Let me emphasize that this is only about the subprime contribution of the overall crisis. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac enabled much spillover into non-subprime mortgage sectors, government-set capital requirements and other regulations enabled
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During my visit to Francisco Marroquín University, I led a one-hour seminar on entrepreneurial ethics. Subtopics: * Three moral types: Carly, Tonya, and Jane. * Six questions in ethics. * Egoism, Altruism, and Predation. * Entrepreneurial ethics: entrepreneurial success and virtue. * Why hasn’t the case for liberty convinced everyone? * Entrepreneurial ethics in contrast
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In this 17-minute video, Dr. Alexei Marcoux explains three competing theories of entrepreneurship–Schumpeter’s, Knight’s, and Kirzner’s. For more information: Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight, and Israel Kirzner. Dr. Marcoux’s lecture is part of the Entrepreneurship and Values series. Other lecturers in the six-part series include Terry Noel, Stephen Hicks, William Kline, and Robert Salvino. The video
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In my interview with Phyllis Johnson after her talk at Rockford College, Ms. Johnson and I discussed her entrepreneurial career as well as the challenges faced by coffee farmers in Africa–most of them low-paid women with little-to-no business education and who, in many cases, are not allowed to own farmland due to cultural, religious, or