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{"title":"Teaching Business in Tanzania: Evaluating Participation and Performance","authors":"K. Bjorvatn, Bertil Tungodden","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1554899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1554899","url":null,"abstract":"-This is the author's version of the article:\"Teaching Business in Tanzania: Evaluating Participation and Performance\" Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 8, Issue 2-3, pages 561–570, April-May 2010.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126357538","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":"Case Analysis: Comfort N Care","authors":"M. Joshi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1478045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1478045","url":null,"abstract":"Comfort N Care is an organization, which deals in personal loan, home loan and credit card. For Comfort and Care retention and uplifting employees as well as customer satisfaction are most important. Comfort N Care was established an ICICI’s franchisee on 15th October 2000 with joint effort of Mr. Ajay Sharma and Mr. Agarwal who happened to be the vice president of ICICI Ltd. On 27th October 2000 ICICI awarded him the franchisee of home loans too. Comfort N Care slowly positioned itself as one of the strongest franchisee of ICICI Ltd. The key points of success of Comfort N Care are human values, personal motivation, and it focused more on attitudes behavior and ethics. With well coordinated ideas good segmentation, philosophy and innovative organization structure Comfort N Care is more focused on customer satisfaction. Besides that, Comfort N Care has changed focus from intra relations to inter relations, from independence to dependence with changing environment. Its customer and external customer have an open ended and transparent feedback mechanism. By such transparency and commitment Comfort N Care got a good position in the industry and started fulfilling the dream of it’s customer of 'home sweet home' in an effective way Comfort N Care has achieved target three times more than it was fixed by ICICI bank Ltd. Comfort N Care was also rewarded as the 4th best franchisee in India and the best in north India in the year 2002","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128688827","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":"Teradata Reborn","authors":"Michael Goul","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1477025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1477025","url":null,"abstract":"This case is about Teradata, the largest organization focused solely on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, as it is ending its first full year of existence as an independent company in the Fortune 1000. The timing of the case is as Teradata is poised to complete the first quarter of 2009, only recently spun-off from NCR Corporation and now facing an extremely challenging external economic environment and new competitive threats from data warehouse appliance vendors. Thirty years earlier, Teradata was born in a garage, and the entrepreneurial and inventive spirit that enabled its launch flourished despite its ownership by the more conservative NCR Corporation. An important key to Teradata’s ongoing market leadership is the success of its innovation strategy that has balanced product and service research and development priorities. That strategy plays out well as Teradata launches its ‘purpose-built platform family.’ The data warehouse product family consists of bundled solutions enabled by innovation streams that can be traced back to its roots in system architecture, logical data model management and in other related areas. In this case study, major business decisions are addressed, including the concentration of innovation investments by discontinuing select areas of research and development in order to focus on what was most important for the long term success of the company. Teradata’s intellectual property strides are shown to enable the offering of packaged product and service solutions in late 2008 and 2009 that target accelerated customer ‘time to value.’ The company deems this mantra most suitable for a challenging economic climate where data warehouse investments have come under extreme scrutiny. The main protagonist in the case, Vice President of Research and Development Scott Gnau, faces an important quandary. When he meets the CEO, Mike Koehler, will his budget be cut because of the tough economic times, or will his budget be increased as the company reinvests to build innovation streams for the future.‘ Graduate students of business strategy have found the case to be effective in conveying the difficulties and opportunities associated with competing in a two-sided platform market where concomitant innovation with customers and with complementary business partners impacts research and development investment prioritization. Students of data management, business intelligence and computer science have found the case engaging from both the technical content covered in the actual Teradata patents that are discussed and with the future areas of needed research and development as articulated by Teradata visionaries. From parallel architecture innovations to logical data model modularization and synthesis innovations, these students have discovered a company where what is discussed in textbooks is actually in use at Teradata’s customers such as e-Bay, RBC Bank, Cabela’s and Travelocity. Multi-disciplinary students interested in the em","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128770037","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 Effects of Entrepreneurship Education","authors":"R. Weber, Georg von Graevenitz, D. Harhoff","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1445085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1445085","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship. We develop a theoretical model of Bayesian learning in which entrepreneurship education generates signals which help students to evaluate their own aptitude for entrepreneurial tasks. We derive predictions from the model and test them using data from a compulsory entrepreneurship course at a German university. Using survey responses from 189 students ex ante and ex post, we find that entrepreneurial propensity declined somewhat in spite of generally good evaluations of the class. Our tests of Bayesian updating provide support for the notion that students receive valuable signals and learn about their own type in the entrepreneurship course.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116328505","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":"Short-Range Forecasting","authors":"J. R. Freeland","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1421677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1421677","url":null,"abstract":"This technical note presents material on procedures and techniques for forecasting over the next year. Specifically, methods for measuring forecast accuracy and the techniques for time-series forecasting using exponential smoothing with trend and seasonality are presented. Ways of monitoring forecasts and adaptive control procedures are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129003773","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":"Kestrel Ventures, Llc: August 1999","authors":"R. Bruner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1418865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1418865","url":null,"abstract":"In late 1999, three young entrepreneurs are evaluating which, if any, of four companies to buy. They have been searching for a small business to acquire, using the \"search fund\" concept to raise capital to finance their acquisition search and, ultimately, their acquisition. The case relates the concept of the search fund and the experience of the three entrepreneurs in their first nine months of operation. The tasks for the student are to evaluate the progress of the entrepreneurs to date and to recommend action on the four investment opportunities. Little numerical figure-work is required; rather, the analytical challenge is in testing the suitability of investments against strategic and financial criteria. The objectives of the case are to: (1) Explore the attributes of efficient and effective acquisition search, (2) Illuminate the concept of a search fund and the requisites for search-fund success, and (3) Exercise students’ skills in the analysis of investment opportunities.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131544406","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":"Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats Merger","authors":"L. Bourgeois, Paul Hammaker, Chris Aprill, Daniel Payne, Stephanie A. Ring, Kristin Strauss","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1416561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1416561","url":null,"abstract":"Whole Foods and Wild Oats were both natural- and organic-food stores that competed for similar customers on values such as high-quality and healthy products, excellent customer service, knowledge of products, and an enjoyable shopping experience. In February 2007, Whole Foods announced that it would purchase a smaller, yet formidable competitor, Wild Oats. There was tremendous geographic complementarity involved: The merger would give Whole Foods the largest footprint within the natural- and organic-grocery industry in North America.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132176471","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":"An Outflow of Talent: Nativism and the US Reverse Brain Drain","authors":"V. Wadhwa","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1424282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1424282","url":null,"abstract":"As the world hurtles headlong into the deepest global recession since the Great Depression, the controversial cultural and economic tensions that have always existed around the sensitive topics of immigration and immigration policy are again coming to the surface in the United States. A land of immigrants, religious outcasts, and refugees fleeing wars, poverty, starvation, and oppression abroad, the United States has long been viewed as the most welcoming country in the world. Immigrants always believed that their children would have a chance at a more prosperous life than the one their parents led - the ultimate American Dream. Today the political clouds of nativism are swirling in Washington, DC. President Obama and the US Congress, reacting to the ongoing political backlash against financial institutions, have passed a bill restricting US financial companies from hiring foreign nationals on H-1B visas. These visas are the most common type of employment permits for foreigners and have traditionally been a pathway to full citizenship. Before the ink on the bill had dried, the country’s largest financial institution, Bank of America, announced it would rescind job offers from foreign MBA students. The nativist logic is clear: with US unemployment heading towards 10 percent and perhaps beyond, nativists question why US companies hire foreigners to perform jobs that out-of-work Americans could perform. I personally have experienced the building xenophobia. Articles that I have published explaining the economic benefits of open doors immigration policies have created enormous backlash. I have received overtly threatening emails and hundreds of unpleasant messages telling me, in no uncertain terms, that skilled immigrants are no longer welcome here. I have received arguments that are familiar derivations of the nativist logic. Xenophobes claim that immigrants on H-1B visas are paid less than comparable American workers and depress wages. Others argue that immigrants crowd out Americans in similar positions, causing US-born students to lose interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (\"STEM\") fields and to stop seeking education and employment in those critical areas. They add that immigrants filing for patents are displacing Americans who might have filed for patents but could not get good science-related jobs. The xenophobic tide could not have come at a more inopportune time. Even before the nativist sentiment emerged, growing numbers of talented immigrants had been abandoning lives in the United States to return to their homelands. They returned due to growing perceptions that brighter economic futures and greater chances for career and professional advancement lay abroad. With America no longer having the huge economic advantage it once had, other factors are coming more into play, such as the inconvenience of current restrictive visa policies and the anxiety associated with living far from friends and family in an unfamiliar culture. ","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116024738","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":"Introduction to Financial Management (In Spanish)","authors":"Ignacio Vélez-Pareja, Miguel Dávila","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1366118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1366118","url":null,"abstract":"This is a teaching material for a module of Financial analysis at Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar. The educational material was developed with Professor Ricardo Davila from Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. The written material has been modified several times, but the basic content is the one we developed many years ago. This chapter is a broad presentation of accounting concepts in particular of financial statements including the Income Statement, the Balance Sheet and the Cash Budget (the listing of all the inflows and outflows the firm has). We adopted a graphical approach to explain the relationship between the financial statements.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127159672","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":"Losing the World's Best and Brightest: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part V","authors":"V. Wadhwa, A. Saxenian, Richard B. Freeman, A. Salkever","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1362012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1362012","url":null,"abstract":"Foreign national students have come to the United States to study in increasing numbers and participated in some of the most advanced academic research efforts to date, lending enormous brainpower to the development of technological and scientific innovations that benefitted America. The students were drawn to the United States by the country's highly vaunted academic research institutions and enormous budgets for funding basic and applied research. Upon completion of their studies, significant numbers of foreign students have traditionally chosen to remain in the U.S. to work full-time or pursue post-doctoral work. More recently, as the economies of the developing world have grown rapidly and Western economies have grown less quickly, anecdotal evidence has begun to suggest that fewer foreign national students wish to stay in the U.S. after graduation. Reports in the popular press, and elsewhere have suggested that many of these students now believe that greater opportunities exist elsewhere in the world. To date, there has been very little empirical research, aside from the NSF surveys, into the post-graduate intentions of foreign nationals, and the key factors driving their decisions to seek to stay in the U.S. or to move abroad. This paper attempts to fill some of this void. This paper is based on an Facebook survey of 1,224 foreign nationals who are currently studying in institutions of higher learning in the United States or who had graduated by the end of the 2008 academic school year. We found that foreign national students in our sample are planning to leave the U.S. after graduation in numbers that appear to be higher than the historical norm as measured in STEM disciplines. A significant percentage of these students also say they intend to open businesses in the future. This expressed intention is prevalent among Indian and Chinese nationals currently studying in the U.S. This would appear to be a marked contrast to the recent past, when Chinese and Indian degree holders were very likely to stay in the U.S. and continue working or in a research capacity (even more so in the PhD ranks).","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121893396","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}