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{"title":"Rodale Press (a)","authors":"Catherine Elliot, L. Bourgeois, Marcien Jenckes, Daren Samuels","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1583271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1583271","url":null,"abstract":"DOESN'T MEET STANDARDSMaria Rodale, 32-year-old heir apparent to Rodale Press (Runners' World, Bicycling, Organic Gardening, Prevention Magazine) is about to begin a sabbatical to prepare herself for her as-yet-to-be-determined leadership role. She must consider several challenges: ascertaining her new job and convincing the chairman (her mother) to share power, gaining the confidence of more-experienced senior management, navigating family (shareholder) politics, and charting a new corporate direction and strategy. See also the B case (BP-0394).","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123949794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physicians for You, LLC: Estimating Asset-Related Expenses","authors":"Mark E. Haskins","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1583297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1583297","url":null,"abstract":"Students explore the variability in earnings due solely to the need to make estimates for several common financial statement asset-related expense items. They consider depreciable asset lives and residual values; estimated uncollectible accounts receivable; and temporary versus permanent losses on marketable equity security investments. The case can be used as an asset module capstone case either an undergraduate- or graduate-level introductory financial reporting/accounting course. Alternatively, it could be used to introduce the asset module of an accounting course. A new medical practice is about to be launched and is seeking investors. As one of the doctors puts the final touches on a pro forma income statement, he must make several estimates that are required/allowed under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to finalize the projected first year earnings figure.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116743649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (D)","authors":"Edward D. Hess","doi":"10.1515/9780804777568-031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804777568-031","url":null,"abstract":"This case could be used in courses about entrenpreneurship and managing small businesses. The founder and patriarch of a family business is confronted by his children regarding succession, equitable distribution of money from the business to nonworking family members, and nepotism. THe transition from first- to second- and third-generation involvement creates major challenges to the family harmony and the business beyond the life of the founding generation. There is a B case [ENT-0124] that examines these issues further.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117019647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The E-Choupal Initiative","authors":"Alexander Horniman, S. Venkataraman, Jenny Mead","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1583301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1583301","url":null,"abstract":"An international corporation’s agricultural business division reviews its seven-year-old IT initiative among rural Indian farmers. Suitable for learners at all levels, the case is ideal for modules on strategic change, transformational change in a value chain, and development at the bottom of the pyramid. It also provides excellent insight into how corporations can improve both profits and lifestyles in developing nations while bolstering their worldwide competitiveness. The e-Choupal initiative provides Internet access to connect and unite farmers by teaching them more efficient farming methods and wholesaler accountability strategies. Should the company expand the initiative throughout the country? Given India’s size and the various challenges involved, expansion would not be an easy task.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133272315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study of Entrepreneurial Orientation & Inclination for Entrepreneurial Carrier of Management Students in India: An Empirical Analysis","authors":"G. Popli","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1579905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1579905","url":null,"abstract":"Since the last decade of twentieth century India has strived for an experienced and unprecedented economic turn-around. The country has witnessed a structural shift in GDP Growth, propelled largely by new investments and the growth of the value enhancing services sector. Now, the Indian Economy is the fourth largest economy in the world and is going to be a dominant force in the new world order in the coming years. With the rest of the world looking up at India and China mainly because of low-cost manufacturing in services, countless business opportunities have opened up in this respect in both the countries. Entrepreneurship seems to be a viable mode for the economic development in a country like India which is still a developing economy. With entrepreneurship assuming greater significance in the current economic scenario, the paper aims at studying the orientation and inclination of NCR Delhi based final year management students towards entrepreneurship and make suggestions for fostering entrepreneurship among management students in India. This paper is based on a descriptive study on entrepreneurship orientation conducted amongst the management students across the National Capital Region of Delhi. This study throws light on the entrepreneurship initiatives among management students in NCR, Delhi, the area which witnessed a phenomenal increase in the number of B-Schools in the recent years. The study not only helps in understanding the preferences and aspirations of management students regarding entrepreneurship but also describes the different factors favoring and hindering entrepreneurship. The present study reveals some interesting trends regarding entrepreneurship which are somewhat different from the available body of knowledge regarding entrepreneurship climate in the country. The findings of the study will help the Management Institutes, Central Government and others agencies concerned in formulating policies and strategies to further boost the change in trend seen among the students and at the same time will help the coming generations in making India a critical force in the global economy.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131446185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study of Entrepreneurial Orientation & Inclination for Entrepreneurial Career of Engineering Students","authors":"G. Popli, D. Rao","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1530288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1530288","url":null,"abstract":"In India, over 2 LAKH engineering graduates pass out of the portals of Engineering Colleges every year and the high unemployment rate among qualified young engineers has been a cause of worry for the policy makers. The Government of India is looking forward to the under 25 population as the future pool of entrepreneurs and job providers. With entrepreneurship assuming greater significance in the current economic scenario, the paper aims at studying the orientation and inclination of NCR Delhi based final year engineering students towards entrepreneurship and make suggestions for fostering entrepreneurship among engineering graduates.The objectives are:a. To study the entrepreneurial orientation of NCR Delhi based final year engineering students to assess their suitability for entrepreneurship. b. To study the entrepreneurial inclination of NCR* based final year engineering students to understand their perceptions about entrepreneurship.c. To assess the extent to which the sample group is inclined towards entrepreneurial career d. To make suggestions for fostering entrepreneurship among engineering graduates.The sample of 200 final year engineering students of various engineering college in the National Capital Region of Delhi was chosen through stratified random sampling technique. Data was collected through two structured questionnaires. A questionnaire consisting of 15 questions was administered to ascertain their entrepreneurial orientation on a 5-point Likert scale. Further, the same sample was administered another questionnaire to understand their perceptions about entrepreneurship and their inclination towards entrepreneurial career. The major findings of the study have been that (a) there is a change in the perception of the engineering students regarding entrepreneurship in India; (b) the majority of the students, who are planning to take up entrepreneurship, are looking for it only after gaining some industrial exposure; (c) the respondents have expressed interest in infrastructure, housing, manufacturing and hospitality; (d) the majority of the students would like to start with a small business; (e) Government policies and lack of financial resources are perceived to be factors hindering entrepreneurship; (f) Entrepreneurship be taught as a separate subject to the Engineering students. The practical training be made an integral part of the curriculum.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125405884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stock Analysis: Johnston Press Plc.","authors":"Kevin L. Meyer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1567036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1567036","url":null,"abstract":"Stock analysis of Johnston Press Plc., a Scottish newspaper publisher.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122611014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Universities, Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development","authors":"T. Åstebro, Navid Bazzazian","doi":"10.4337/9780857936493.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857936493.00013","url":null,"abstract":"There has been an increased trend in the number of spin-offs generated by universities in the past thirty years. Past research reveals that the majority of these start-ups are located in the same region as the university from which they originated. In this paper, we investigate critically what universities do to encourage entrepreneurship to increase regional economic development. We will also discuss whether maximizing local entrepreneurship necessarily maximizes total welfare. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence reviewed in this paper indicates that policy changes at universities typically have very little impact on commercialization of research and the benefits to the universities are marginal. For example, current evidence indicates that creating incubators and science parks on university grounds have no discernable effects on local start-up rates. Further, from a theoretical perspective we have reviewed articles showing that introducing Technology Licensing Offices (TLOs), the most popular method to stimulate research commercialization, may likely introduce economic inefficiencies, hold-ups and decision biases that deviate from what is optimal. The median university among the top U.S. research-based institutions creates less than two academic spin-offs per year and so the relative effects on local economic conditions through TLO efforts and policies are bound to be marginal. Nevertheless the evidence also shows that the scientific stature of the faculty, the commercialization culture at the university, and the sheer number of science and engineering students graduated do have important positive effects on local start-up rates. Increasing expenditures on university staff and students causes increases in regional productivity growth and innovation and the marginal effects are much bigger in structurally weak regions. Evidence confirms that university spin-offs disproportionally favor local development. Maybe as much as 80 percent of all university spin-offs are and remain locally situated. However, universities that maximize local effects will not maximize their societal impact. Instead, it appears more efficient if universities simply try to maximize licensing revenues and not worry about the number of spin-offs and their locations.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128493220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: Changing Demographics, Economic Crisis and Investment in Human Capital","authors":"Mariam Orkodashvili","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1546649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1546649","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report raised the issue of the role of federal government in the development of higher education system. The paper focuses on one of the issues raised by the Spellings Commission, access to higher education. The paper suggests that today access still remains an issue for higher education in the U.S. Adjusting to changing demographic trends, increased ethnic diversity and increased enrollments with limited federal resources and complicated federal aid system is still a challenge of the future. The question that remains to be answered is: ‘Will the federal government sustain its traditional commitment to equalizing opportunities for higher education?’","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129113004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Importance of Simulation and Modelling in a Business Management Curriculum","authors":"A. Dey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1498318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1498318","url":null,"abstract":"Business decisions are made mostly in uncertain and dynamic environment where input variables keep changing. Unfortunately students of a business management course are ill equipped to tackle such situations because most often the problems in the class are solved assuming input variables are constant over time. Mean values are used which hide the variability. This paper makes out a case for the introduction of a Spreadsheet based Simulation and Modeling course in business management curriculum to alleviate such problems. A model helps the analyst to predict the effect of changes to the system. A model should be a close approximation to the real system and incorporate most of its salient features but should be less complex. Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time that will help in drawing inferences concerning the operating characteristics of the real system. Simulations can either be done by using specialized software which are expensive; not easily available; require special expertise to operate and are applicable to a limited set of problems; or by using any spreadsheet software. This paper further endorses using Excel spreadsheet as a powerful simulation tool because it is easily available and has required features for simulation. Introduction of such a course has immensely benefited over thousand students and their recruiters at three prestigious management institutes in and around Delhi, India.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"25 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115551431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}