Entrepreneurship

Marcoux on entrepreneurship: Schumpeter, Knight, and Kirzner

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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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Interview with Phyllis Johnson on entrepreneurship, coffee, and empowering women in Africa

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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

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Full interview with Francesco Clark posted

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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 to speak at Rockford College

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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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Kaizen interviewee Ed Snider elected Hockey Hall of Fame

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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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