Entrepreneurship

Portuguese translation of “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

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My essay “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” has been translated in Portuguese by Matheus Pacini and Vinicius Cintra. Here is “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” in HTML or PDF. Other versions: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf]. Originally published in Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring […]

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O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo

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“O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês em The Journal of Private Enterprise 24(2), 2009, 49-57. Tradução por Matheus Pacini. Revisão por Vinicius Cintra, 2014. Resumo O

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“What Justifies Liberal Capitalism: Are Hayek’s, Rand’s, and Friedman’s Answers Compatible?” My 2013 Atlas Summit lecture

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The one-hour video of my lecture is at the Atlas Society site and at YouTube. The lecture starts at 3:40, after the introduction, and is about 45 minutes long, followed by a question-and-answer session. The sub-topics are: * 13 initial arguments for liberal capitalism. * Some quotations from Mises, Schumpeter, Jouvenel, Smith, Hayek, Mill, Rand,

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Interview with Zoltan Cendes now online

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My Kaizen interview with entrepreneur Zol Cendes on the theme of Entrepreneurial Software is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship site. I met Mr. Cendes in Naples, Florida, to discuss his experience founding Ansoft, a $900 million software company that revolutionized engineering modeling. The interview was originally published in Issue 29 of

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Kaizen 29: The Zol Cendes interview

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Entrepreneurial Software The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with Zoltan Cendes. We met in Naples, Florida, to discuss Mr. Cendes’s experience founding Ansoft, a $900 million software company that revolutionized engineering modeling. My favorite images from this issue show the uses of Ansoft’s software in improving the air and fluid dynamics for

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The Innovator’s DNA — and Montessori education

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Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator’s DNA (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), identifies the often-shared traits of innovators, but then makes this striking point about how the innovative became innovative: “‘It’s fascinating when we interview these famous entrepreneurs to realise that they grew up in worlds where adults paid attention to these innovation skills.’ Most

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John Chisholm — “Unleash Your Inner Company” talk

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In this 20-minute “Unleash Your Inner Company” talk, entrepreneur John Chisholm (San Francisco) discusses: * the values that motivate entrepreneurs; * the mutually-reinforcing traits of passion and perseverance; * finding unique customers needs; * fitting those needs to one’s own uniqueness, strengths, and weakness; * how entrepreneurs are leaders; * his own entrepreneurial experiences; *

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