Inc.com‘s Donna Fern discovers that GenY startups have their “own way of looking at existing products and services and judging them not quite up to snuff for their own needs. Their response: I can do better.” Her article features online services Mint, Unigo and Ignighter.
Meanwhile, Jeff Cornwall describes this new generation of entrepreneurs as “using entrepreneurship as not just an economic tool, and not just a social tool as we see with their fascination with Social Entrepreneurship, but as a cultural tool.”
At Small Business Trends, Anita Campbell has collected stories of business owners who found creative ways to save money while growing their businesses.
Serial entrepreneur and “father of angel investing in New York,”according to Crain’s New York Business, David S. Rose gives a TedTalk on the 10 most important things you need to know before pitching your idea to venture capitalists. Along the way, he also includes 5 tips on making good PowerPoint presentations.
Below is a two-part interview of CEE’s executive director Dr. Stephen Hicks with Spring 2009 CEE guest speaker Dr. David Mayer about his forthcoming book, entitled “Freedom’s Constitution,” which focuses on his libertarian interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Below is a two-part interview of CEE’s executive director Dr. Stephen Hicks with Spring 2009 CEE guest speaker Dr. David Mayer discussing his lecture, “Thomas Jefferson and the Holy Cause of Freedom,” about Jefferson’s writings on the nature and importance of liberty.
The latest issue of Kaizen features our interview with Kevin O’Connor, co-founder and former CEO of DoubleClick. DoubleClick is the world’s largest Internet advertising technology company and was recently acquired by Google for $3.1 billion. Also featured in Kaizen are reports on a new course coming soon from Professor Asongu, our guest speakers, and projects by students Bridget Markin, Khetsiwe Dlamini, Stacy Moore, and Goran Mamic.
A PDF version of Kaizen is available here. We will soon post the full version of the interview with Mr. O’Connor.
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During the Fall 2007 semester, the Center offered prizes for the best two student projects in Professors Hicks and Rezazadeh’sCapitalism in the Modern World course. The projects involved researching a country’s political and economic history, and students were judged on the basis of the quality of their analysis and the effectiveness of their presentations, both oral and written. The winners, Paul Lindsay and Emily Wallen, received $300 each. Below are brief video clip excerpts of their presentations.
In the new CEE-sponsored course, Entrepreneurship and Ethics, students were asked to develop in-depth case studies of a major entrepreneur’s life, character, style, challenges, and innovations. Student presentations included Stacy L. Moore on Andrew Mellon, Khetsiwe Dlamini on Richard Branson, Goran Mamic on Mayer Rothschild, and Bridget Markin on Coco Chanel. Below are brief video clips from their presentations.
Below is a two-part interview of CEE’s executive director Dr. Stephen Hicks with Spring 2009 CEE guest speaker Dr. C. Bradley Thompson about his forthcoming book, to be titled “Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea.” The book will focus on the early 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss’s influence on the founders of Neoconservativism.
Rockford College philosophy professor Shawn Klein was quoted in Brendan I. Koerner’s Mr. Know-It-All column in Wired Magazine’s April 2009 issue. Klein responded to a question concerning losing and humiliation in sports competitions. He has a follow-up to the article on his blog. Professor Klein will be offering his sports ethics course again during the Fall 2009 semester.
