Howard Stevenson of Harvard Business School once argued that the essence of enterprise is the pursuit of opportunities regardless of the resources you currently control.
Two of the school's Enterprise Enrichment Groups (Skinners' International and The Fred Ice Fundraising Group) were challenged to set up two competing businesses and sell their products at break time.
Most importantly, I realized I had become entirely cynical of the whole public school enterprise.
FORBES: Reader Story: I Quit My Passion and Took a Boring Job
Also just announced is a new professorship of Indian business and enterprise to be established at Judge Business School, part of Cambridge University.
Instead of a uniform school system, charters represent an enterprise where education happens better, quicker and more efficiently.
"Endowed with significant creative capacity and a large consumer base, India and China are rapidly reshaping the global knowledge economy of tomorrow, " Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the school, said in a statement announcing the event.
She is a fellow at the Belfer Center of Harvard's Kennedy School and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
But Ms Teather said the government would support it in setting up as an independent, not-for-profit social enterprise "to carry on its outstanding work driving up the quality of school meals".
Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, near Durham, is the first school in the north-east of England to introduce the system to combat truancy.
They are Dover Christ Church Academy, St Augustine Academy, The Duke of York's Royal Military School, John Wallis Academy, The Knole Academy and Wilmington Enterprise College.
The school pounds into them a fervor for space exploration that sounds like that of Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise in Star Trek.
Meanwhile the Richard Ivey School of Business has also announced a revamp of its MBA course structure, incorporating what it calls "cross-enterprise leadership".
Students are encouraged to participate in a variety of extracurricular activities, including The Carolina Entrepreneurship Club and Students in Free Enterprise, and to exploit school-sponsored programs like The Carolina Launch Program, designed to guide students through the process of starting up their own venture.
应用推荐