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 […]
My full Kaizen interview with entrepreneur Francesco Clark has been re-published, along with 15 other Kaizen interviews, in More Entrepreneurial Living: 16 More Stories of Innovation, Risk, and Achievement. The theme of the interview is Entrepreneurship and Overcoming Adversity, about which Clark is perfectly positioned to speak. At age 24 he became paralyzed from the
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Phyllis Johnson will speak on “Entrepreneurship, Coffee, and Empowering Women in Africa” to my Business and Economic Ethics class on Thursday, October 6. Johnson is the President and Co-Founder of BD Imports, a Rockford-based company known for giving starts to African women and small businesses engaged in the production and trade of coffee. Johnson is
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Elizabeth Warren’s recent remarks offer a striking glimpse into one prominent strain of American political thought.
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Important 20-minute talk for aspiring entrepreneurs: “Release your Inner Company.” Also check out my fun and informative Kaizen interview with Chisholm.
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Edward Snider is CEO of Comcast-Spectacor, a company that owns the Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia where the teams play, and several other sports-related businesses. For his many accomplishments in his hockey career, Snider was elected to the US Hockey Hall of Fame this month. My Kaizen interview
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I was interviewed by Jeanne Hoffman for Kosmos Online about my work in starting the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. The theme of the podcast is academic entrepreneurship and what goes into starting a new center or institute. Kosmos is a project of IHS for classical liberal academics.
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In a recent Huffington Post piece entitled “Teaching Capitalism in the Last Days of the USSR,” Steve Mariotti discusses his experience teaching business and capitalism to young people during the final days of the Soviet Union. Fascinating. I interviewed Mariotti for Kaizen on his excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Before founding NFTE, Mariotti was
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