Episode 179: The Importance of Entrepreneurial Schools

Episode 179 originally broadcast on November 08, 2008

The School of Business for November 8, 2008

Russ and John present a low-budget show for the ones we're counting on - the innovators and the entrepreneurs. Includes: BusinessMakers Quote of the Week - words of inspiration from someone anonymous; This Week in Business History includes HUGE events such as the discovery of the X-ray, a patent is issued on the electrical plug, WWI ends; Lennon meets Yoko Ono, Johnny Rivers hits No. 1 on the charts and the Edmund Fitzgerald sinks. Navigating Business Jargon - acronyms, technospeak and disclaimers; and Dumbest Moments in Business History - the DoubleTree Club upsets the wrong people.

Dan Steppe of the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship

The BusinessMakers broadcast from the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, a program of the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. WCE is being honored by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review as the No. 1 ranked school of entrepreneurship in the nation. Russ interviews Dan Steppe, director of the program since 2004.

Flashback - Entrepreneurial Schools

Russ revisits past interviews with Thomas J. O'Malia, director of the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California; Leonard Schlesinger, newly-inaugurated president of Babson College near Boston; and Bill Sherrill, founder of what is now the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Houston.