For students of management who have decided to pursue a career as an entrepreneur, this book should provide the knowledge and the skills required. Plus it should be an aid to executives who are often called upon to deal with, and even to manage entrepreneurs. The book is organized into four parts: Evaluating opportunity and developing the business concept; assessing and acquiring necessary resources; acquiring an existing business; and managing the enterprise and harvesting value.

New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur

Business & Money

Stevenson, Howard H.

Management & Leadership

R.D. Irwin

This text--a combination of Harvard Cases and text-- examines the entrepreneurial process from the initial idea through business operations to harvest. It provides the knowledge and skills required for students pursuing careers as entrepreneurs as well as valuable ideas for those in a more structured business setting. Most importantly, it takes a close look at the process of identifying and pursuing opportunity, which has become increasingly important in restoring the competitive position of many U.S. industries in a global marketplace.

New Business Ventures And The Entrepreneur

Roberts,Michael

Grousbeck, Harold Irving

McGraw/Hill/Irwin

Explains how to refine predictive skills, make decisions, measure risk, understand conflict, and improve human interactions

Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L.

Moldoveanu, Mihnea C.

Harvard Business Review Press

As entrepreneurs fuel the economy with start-ups, job creation, innovation, and new technologies, the need to understand the evolving field of entrepreneurship continues to grow. Covering every phase of the entrepreneurial venture, from the basic concepts to emerging issues, this collection of readings by leading academics and practitioners is designed to serve as a handbook for entrepreneurs, as well as for teachers and students of the entrepreneurial process. Newly updated with timely material, professors will find this second edition invaluable for the richness of the cases and the accompanying questions designed to facilitate discussion.

The Entrepreneurial Venture (Practice of Management Series)

Bhidé, Amar

Roberts, Michael J.

Economics

Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way

Philanthropy is a powerful force in our society but the challenges are great, particularly during an economic downturn that has dampened contributions even as the demand for services escalates. Howard Stevenson has written Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way based on his many years as a donor, fundraiser and entrepreneur. He offers practical techniques and real life stories, and brings passion and humor to the art and science of asking for money. Topics covered in the book include: • What motivates donors to give • The four donor questions that you must be able to answer • How to craft compelling messages about your organization and cause • How to think and act like an entrepreneur • What your role is as a fundraising leader • Why and how fundraising can be rewarding and fun!

Spence, Shirley M.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Timberline

Humans are gambling animals—and not just when we invest in the stock market. Every time we take an action—deciding which job applicant to hire, which product to launch— we are betting our time, reputation, effort, and money in the hope of achieving some future result. Some people base their business bets on dumb luck, but the great ones—like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey—make their own luck. Eileen C. Shapiro and Howard H. Stevenson have compressed the complex skills of making your own luck—which they call predictive intelligence—into twelve easy and practical steps. These steps will get you the results you want with the least risk and the most upside. They will help you take smarter risks without the “analysis paralysis” that gets so many people and companies in trouble. Most books about strategy are dull and loaded with jargon. Make Your Own Luck is full of jokes, brain teasers, anecdotes, and unexpected case studies from the Battle of Antietam to the diaper war between Huggies and Pampers. It teaches readers how to build their ability to bet smart and how to use this ability to win in business and in other areas of life.

Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business

Shapiro, Eileen

Portfolio

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