Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Education Conference at Rockford University

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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship is hosting a conference March 31-April 1 on Entrepreneurial Education. Speakers T. K. Coleman (Praxis) María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual) Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University New Orleans) Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University)  Marsha Familaro Enright (The Great Connections Seminars)  Terry Noel (Illinois State University)  Jed Hopkins (Edgewood College)  Amy […]

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Interview with Lall Singh on Entrepreneurial Finance in England

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[This is my full interview with Lall Singh, first published in the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s Kaizen newsletter.] Introduction: Lall Singh is CEO of Capital Instruments based in London, England. Capital Instruments is an investment consulting firm that provides finance, management, and marketing expertise in several European companies as well as projects in Canada

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Do entrepreneurs need formal education? Lall Singh answers

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On the value of formal education for entrepreneurs, British entrepreneur Lall Singh says this: “Formal education is the way to go. You have to load yourself with the key thinking. I found that originally—and this was having qualified as an accountant—you’ll still find yourself blinkered in the market because you don’t understand the marketing aspects;

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Dr. Terry Noel on the Virtuous Entrepreneur [video interview transcript]

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks. Our guest today is Professor Terry Noel, who teaches Entrepreneurship and Management at Illinois State. He is here today at Rockford College speaking on the theme of the virtuous entrepreneur. Interesting title, but

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Kaizen 31: British entrepreneur Lall Singh

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The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s interview with Lall Singh on the theme of Entrepreneurial Finance in England. Also featured in this issue of Kaizen are guest speakers Robert Garmong, Douglas Rasmussen, and Piotr Kostyło, as well as our Entrepreneurial Education conference and a conference we hosted with the Austrian Economics

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Coffee entrepreneur Phyllis Johnson — video interview transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Part I Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks. My guest today is Phyllis Johnson, who spoke in the Business and Economics Ethics class today on the theme of Coffee, Entrepreneurship, and Women in Africa. Ms. Johnson is the founder and

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Qué nos pueden enseñar los emprendimientos acerca de la vida [Spanish translation]

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Por Stephen R.C. Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of my article “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us About Life,” originally published in English by The Wall Street Journal.] Tomar riesgos y experimentar son cosas que todos podemos hacer, y no sólo en nuestras carreras. A menudo pensamos en los emprendedores como personas más extraordinarias que el resto. Toman grandes

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Engineering Ethics talk in Chile — report

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Here’s a report (in Spanish) on my lecture at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile, to a group of engineering students and faculty. Thank you to Professor Ruth Murrugarra for inviting me. I also did a short follow-up interview (in English) with Andrea Millar Bruna, posted here: AMB: Which are the essential skills for success

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