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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I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Using Great Entrepreneurs to Teach Great Philosophy” at the Free Minds / Atlas Society seminar in Anaheim next week. The complete list of speakers and talk titles is available starting here. While in California, I’ll also be interviewing a stylish entrepreneur for an upcoming issue of Kaizen.
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A high-energy video feature on the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, hosted by Rock Valley College. I participated in a panel discussion at the event and am featured in the video for about 30 seconds starting around 3:15. Thanks to Chris McGill for inviting me, and kudos to the event’s organizers for a good-spirited, information-rich day.
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I’ll be speaking as part of the final panel for the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour at Rock Valley College. Friday, April 15, 2011 from 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (CT) Rock Valley State College Student Center Atrium 3301 N. Mulford Road Rockford, IL 61114 Further information.
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The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with the excellent Eduardo Marty, founder of Junior Achievement in Argentina as well as in several other south and central American countries — including Cuba, before he and his professors were arrested for teaching entrepreneurship and kicked out of the country. The theme of the interview
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Jack Stack is the CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, one of the great turnaround success stories of this generation. Stack is also the author of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. I recently interviewed Stack in Springfield, Missouri for a forthcoming issue (February 2011) of Kaizen. “Open-book Management” is addressed
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Michael Strong and Magatte Ward spoke at Rockford College. Strong is the co-founder (with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Chief Visionary Officer of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. He is also the author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems. Wade is a serial entrepreneur raised
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