{"title":"Sensitivity Analysis for Decision Making (Análisis De Sensibilidad Para La Toma De Decisiones. Slides)","authors":"Ignacio Vélez-Pareja","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1131544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1131544","url":null,"abstract":"This is a teaching material (slides) accompanying the book in Spanish Decisiones Empresariales bajo Riesgo e Incertidumbre (Managerial Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty). In this material we show how to conduct a sensitivity analysis using the features of a spreadsheet namely, one and two variables tables, secenario analysis and reverse engineering.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130553737","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":"Higher Education in India: Contemporary Issues and Opportunities for Foreign Participation","authors":"R. Mukherjee","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1326011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1326011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview of the contemporary issues and challenges of Indian higher education, and looks in particular at ways in which potential foreign participants can legitimately play a role in the sector. It does not seek to make a case for increased foreign participation, but presumes it to be a medium-term outcome of the process of India's integration into the global economy. Section I presents a brief overview of higher education in India today. Section II discusses important systemic challenges (access, equity, quality) and argues that these problems stem from the lack of public investment and a flawed regulatory structure, resulting in the rapid and unregulated growth of private provision. Section III maps the existing government perspective on foreign and private participation and attempts to show that there has been an increasing dissonance in the government's view of foreign institutions. This signals a growing public debate that can be successfully leveraged by potential entrants. Section IV concludes by briefly suggesting that in the final analysis, meaningful foreign participation hinges on the regulatory system's ability to successfully balance two conflicting objectives - building a world-class educational system, and ensuring that education remains a non-commercial activity that embodies national values and priorities.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129762204","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":"Can Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide Education Policy in Developing Countries?","authors":"E. Jimenez, H. Patrinos","doi":"10.1596/1813-9450-4568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-4568","url":null,"abstract":"Cost-benefit analysis in education is an important tool in the economists' arsenal. However, it is essential that research, especially on the social benefits of education, make further progress to make cost-benefit more analysis. There is a need for more research on the effects of policy interventions on outcomes beyond access to a year in school and what they earn as a result, such as on what children actually learn. Such research should focus on ensuring that the interventions are attributable to outcomes. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to go through the discipline of noting the benefits and costs, even if social rates of return cannot be calculated robustly.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134577338","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":"Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook","authors":"Debbi D. Brock","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1344412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1344412","url":null,"abstract":"As advocates for social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship education throughout our careers, we have gathered a plethora of resources for both faculty new to the field of social entrepreneurship and seasoned veterans who blazed the trail in the early twenty first century. The first version of the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook was published in January 2004 and included twenty schools actively teaching social entrepreneurship courses. The expanded version is a culmination of the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook prepared in partnership with Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka said we are at a tipping point in social entrepreneurship. The growth of the sector now includes over 350 professors who are actively teaching or researching in social entrepreneurship from more than 35 countries, with over 30 national and international competitions, 800 different articles and 200 cases used in social entrepreneurship courses. Our efforts are to consolidate the number of resources available and to catalogue the growing cadre of academics around the world who are collectively building the field of social entrepreneurship. In completing the research on social entrepreneurship programs and faculty, we are inspired by the commitment to teach students how to embrace social entrepreneurship as a career option to make a difference in the world. As individuals seek to find meaningful careers, social entrepreneurs provide an opportunity for young people to be as Gandhi said \"the change you wish to see in the world.\"","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126425790","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 Past as a Strategic Branding Resource: A Case Study of Jay Chou, a Successful Chinese Music Artist","authors":"Zhiyan Wu, Janet Borgerson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1970106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1970106","url":null,"abstract":"We explore a Chinese-styled aesthetic representational branding process, illuminating potential insights into interconnections between art, branding, and consumption in conjunction with processes of aesthetic representation. Interviews with Chinese entrepreneurs reveal concern around Chinese brands’ internationalization, particularly concerning retail strategy. Chinese export brands lack privileged positions in competition with prominent global brands. This paper sheds light on Chinese resources to address these needs by presenting the case of Jay Chou, a prominent Chinese music artist. As Eckhardt and Bengtsson (2007) suggest in the Chinese case it may be productive to engage the past as a strategic brand-signifying practice in a contemporary marketing regime. We investigate permutations of Chinese culture and ideology by linking consumer research and the production and consumption of images with Chinese traditions and artistic conventions of aural and visual perceptions. Thus, cultural issues around Chinese historical and traditional arts are brought into contemporary consumer research.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124092488","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":"Global Entrepreneurship Monitor [GEM] Adult Population Survey Data Sets: 1998-2003: Codebook and Data Set Description","authors":"P. Reynolds, Diana M. Hechavarría","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1022325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1022325","url":null,"abstract":"The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor [GEM] research program was developed to provide harmonized comparisons among countries related to the level of participation in entrepreneurial activities. The initial data was assembled as a pretest of five countries in 1998; by 2003, more than forty countries and three sub-national regions were involved in the program. While the initial design was based on the first U.S. Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics [PSED I], the GEM design evolved to capture a wider range of individual participation in business ownership and management with annual adjustments and enhancements to the data collection procedure. The current consolidated data set focuses on the first six years. The project has continued in 2004-2007, providing a potential for adding more countries and more cases for continuing countries.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115388695","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 Decision Process (El Proceso De Decision)","authors":"Ignacio Vélez-Pareja","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.986521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.986521","url":null,"abstract":"This is a course material from the book Managerial Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty. The book is originally in Spanish and is untitled as Decisiones empresariales bajo riesgo e incertidumbre. The level of the book is basic. We use very few mathematics and it is expected to be used by managers. This Chapter 1 deals with the decision process including some psycohological aspects. In the chapter we study the decision problem, including the sequential approach to decision making.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124601689","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":"Seeding Entrepreneurship Across Campus: Early Implementation Experiences of the Kauffman Campuses Initiative","authors":"L. Hulsey, Linda H. Rosenberg, Benita Kim","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.981057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.981057","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship has long been a fundamental aspect of American society, serving as an important contributor to economic growth. However, only recently has entrepreneurship begun to develop as an academic field in U.S. colleges and universities. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation launched the Kauffman Campuses Initiative in eight U.S. universities to encourage campuswide expansion of entrepreneurship programs and activities. This report provides a cross-site analysis of implementation experiences during the beginning of the grants, based on information collected during the first round of site visits in spring and fall 2005 and a faculty survey in spring 2006.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121388003","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":"Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship","authors":"D. Foster","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.983202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.983202","url":null,"abstract":"This module introduces students to two related but distinct areas of business and entrepreneurship, social enterprise and social entrepreneurship. Both the latter claim a distinction from or within the former in terms of their focus on \"social objects\". While both have a history, they become of increasing global political, social and economic interest, and knowledge of this area will offer significant intellectual capital to students.","PeriodicalId":174643,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Educator: Courses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130138238","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}