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Since 1986, the Entrepreneur Association (EA) and the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies have welcomed MBA students, alumni, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and a broad array of business executives and professionals for a day of sharing around current topics in entrepreneurship, critical business skills, and emerging opportunities. This year's EA Conference will take place on [...]
Bloomberg Businessweek’s recent article, “College Startups: The ‘New Master’s Degree,’” highlights the growing trend of undergraduate business students launching startups immediately after, or even before, graduation. The article features promising startups from top 20 undergraduate business schools, including Emory University’s Goizueta Business School undergraduate student venture, Campus Bubble. While the article acknowledges the challenges student [...]
Peter Roberts, professor of organization & management, Director of Social Enterprise @ Goizueta In a recent article for the Harvard Business Review, Peter Roberts, professor of organization and management, director of Social Enterprise @ Goizueta, discusses research efforts by Social Enterprise @ Goizueta, which explored how Facebook provides insight into identifying which ventures are worth [...]
Originally posted by Dean Thomas Gilligan in McCombs Today. For the third year in a row, Austin is No. 1 on Forbes’ list of America’s 20 fastest-growing cities in terms of population and economy, thanks in part, say the ranking authors, “to the 51,000-student University of Texas at Austin.” Diving deeper into that news, one discovers the McCombs [...]
Poets & Quants recently featured Adam Healey (MBA ’05) and his wife Christin, entrepreneurs and founders of wedding concierge website Borrowed & Blue. Read more about Adam’s journey moving from management consulting to technology entrepreneurship in the Poets & Quants article, “MBA Startups: A Darden MBA Returned To School To Start A Company.”
You and your friends burned the ships which may take you to corporate corridors and decided to sail on a boat called entrepreneurship. Your B-School is happy with your decision of becoming of job giver so do your professors, the dean at your b-school also took up the initiative to start a foundation for supporting [...]
Business school sometimes get a bad rap in the startup world. Some of it is deserved – it’s big opportunity cost, and until fairly recently, the approach to most business schools to entrepreneurship has been more about theory than practice. Thankfully this is changing. But what is very positive about business school and what hasn’t [...]
The Other 99% Of Entrepreneurs In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected. Yet, the entire world is focused on the 1% that is “fundable.” The media, when pitched a startup story, is interested in [...]
113th 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Jacksonville, Florida Today’s roundtable was co-hosted with the Jacksonville Startup Weekend. For the uninitiated, Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where entrepreneurs come together to pitch ideas, form teams, and learn best practices. This past weekend, the Jacksonville entrepreneurship community hosted their own version of this exciting program. 150 [...]
A very close friend of mine from my college days had the privilege of attending a company sponsored MBA course from the prestigious Asian Institute of Management (AIM). He had to take it as a pre-condition for his moving up to a higher position. He had what is called Executive MBA. If the example still [...]
Mark McNaney: Daniel, I never met your Dad when I was working on...
