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Founder, Rodel, Inc. and Chairman and Founding Director, The Rodel Foundations
Entrepreneurs are people who view the world in profoundly different ways than almost everyone else. Don will discuss the mindset of entrepreneurship and how that mindset and attitude also cultivate advocates of change. Such change solves problems and provides opportunity, builds value in communities that help support entrepreneurial growth, and is inherent to long term success through constant renewal, re-birth, death of old ideas, and re-birth again. |
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Texas Securities Commissioner, Texas State Securities Board
Denny will address what entrepreneurship educators and practitioners need to know about the role of state securities regulators. Regulators play a vital role, particularly for entrepreneurial ventures, by encouraging capital and job formation and a free and competitive securities market while protecting investors, maintaining the integrity of the securities industry, and protecting the capital markets from fraud. |
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President & CEO, AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
John will address the current and anticipated challenges to management education and what AACSB International is doing to assist management educators worldwide. He will also discuss emerging curricula with special emphasis on entrepreneurship, governance, and enterprise risk management at AACSB-accredited schools. |
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Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship, John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University
Cross-campus initiatives, technology commercialization, students selling via eBay - processes such as these are leading to a revival of interest in small business across campuses. Even more remarkably, theorizing about small business and its impacts is growing across disciplines far outside business schools. As a result, business school based small business programs face a crisis of intellectual leadership. Jerry will describe these trends, make the case for business schools taking up the challenge of intellectual leadership in small business, and suggest some of the most promising opportunities for conceptual and research leadership in academic work on small business. |
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Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University
America’s original entrepreneur, Benjamin Franklin, would feel at home in the 21st Century were he transported here via a time machine. More importantly, he would run a very successful business enterprise. Blaine will detail why Franklin succeeded in 18th Century business and why he would also succeed in 21st Century business. |
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Associate Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and Winner of the First Ewing Marion Kauffmann Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship
Why does entrepreneurship play such a central role in economic growth and long-term prosperity? Economic experimentation. Entrepreneurs are at the heart of the process of economic experimentation, attempting truly novel approaches to the creation of economic value. Scott will speak to how the historical record suggests that long-term American economic growth and prosperity have depended crucially on a policy and business environment that, by and large, has supported the process of economic experimentation. As a result, maintaining a healthy environment for economic experimentation is perhaps the single most important long-term challenge to American competitiveness. |
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Executive Vice President of Aircraft Operations, Southwest Airlines, Inc. and USASBE/SBI Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year for 2001
Jim will discuss the unique financial, cultural, and marketing environments of Southwest Airlines that have enabled the Company to thrive in an otherwise bleak and barren industry wasteland. Key to this has been the Company’s entrepreneurial legacy. |
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