Homework "A" assigned after Business Basics #1
Please read:
- "IDEO product development." Harvard Business Case (2000/2007).
- "Discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities." (Shane, 2003: ch 3).
- "How entrepreneurs connect the dots." Academy of Management Perspectives (2006).
- "The Innovator's DNA." Harvard Business Review (2009).
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4TPxoqusP2m5TLL
Please submit this Homework "A" by midnight before boot camp. This is individual homework.
Homework "B" assigned after Business Basics #2
Please visit Aceminor's Wordpress blog and submit all three parts of the homework into the Comments section of
the three homework posts. Due Wednesday 5th Feb (midnight).
Please visit Aceminor's Wordpress blog and submit all three parts of the homework into the Comments section of
the three homework posts. Due Wednesday 5th Feb (midnight).
Please read for Week #1 (February 25th): Creativity, team formation issues, and organizing
- "Teaching with case studies."
- "Lean Forward Media." Harvard Business Case (2006).
- "Creativity and the role of the leader." Harvard Business Review (2008). (Added 2nd February: please read this too)
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 1 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3DWxnRNFkAT6eEd
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Please read for Week #2 (March 4th): Storytelling & marketing
- "United Breaks Guitars." Harvard Business Case (2011).
- "Storytelling that moves people." Harvard Business Review (2003). (very short article, about 4 pages)
- "Discover your products' hidden potential." Harvard Business Review (1996).
- "Turn customer input into innovation." Harvard Business Review (2002).
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 3 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0AlkvrytrHWivZ3
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Please read for Week #3 (March 11th): Doing good or/while being ugly?
- "Homeless World Cup." Stanford Business Case (2010).
- "Should entrepreneurs lie?" Harvard Business Review (2010).
- "Ethical considerations of the legitimacy lie." Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (2009).
- "Drug dealing and legitimate self-employment." Journal of Labor Economics (2002). Please skip Section V (pp 547-553).
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 4 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6KUyO7sSK1NjrVz
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Please read for Week #4 (March 18th): Risk and uncertainty
- "Sittercity." Harvard Business Case (2009).
- "Disciplined entrepreneurship." Sloan Management Review (2004).
- "Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies." Journal of Business
Venturing (1999). Do your best to read the whole article.
- "The No Man." Bloomberg Businessweek (2013).
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 5 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3wb6SP8r5bZEMqV
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Please read for Week #5 (April 1st): The emotions of entrepreneurship
- Health Nut (2009)
- Note on Decision-Making, Emotions, and Entrepreneurship (2008)
- The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship (2013)
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 8 (by Label)
- Homework:
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Please read for Week #6 (April 15th): Capture of value
- "ttools." Kellogg Business Case (2006).
- "Appropriating the returns from industrial research and development." Brookings Papers on
Economic Activity (1987). Please read only pp 783-813.
- "Disciplined entrepreneurship." Sloan Management Review (2004).
- "Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies." Journal of Business
Venturing (1999). Do your best to read the whole article.
- "The value captor's process." Harvard Business Review (2007).
- Homework:
Short Papers are due in Week #7, via Qualtrics. The deadline for Short Papers is 11:59pm on Tuesday 22nd April. Please see your syllabus for details.
- "Teaching with case studies."
- "Lean Forward Media." Harvard Business Case (2006).
- "Creativity and the role of the leader." Harvard Business Review (2008). (Added 2nd February: please read this too)
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 1 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3DWxnRNFkAT6eEd
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Please read for Week #2 (March 4th): Storytelling & marketing
- "United Breaks Guitars." Harvard Business Case (2011).
- "Storytelling that moves people." Harvard Business Review (2003). (very short article, about 4 pages)
- "Discover your products' hidden potential." Harvard Business Review (1996).
- "Turn customer input into innovation." Harvard Business Review (2002).
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 3 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0AlkvrytrHWivZ3
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Please read for Week #3 (March 11th): Doing good or/while being ugly?
- "Homeless World Cup." Stanford Business Case (2010).
- "Should entrepreneurs lie?" Harvard Business Review (2010).
- "Ethical considerations of the legitimacy lie." Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (2009).
- "Drug dealing and legitimate self-employment." Journal of Labor Economics (2002). Please skip Section V (pp 547-553).
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 4 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6KUyO7sSK1NjrVz
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Please read for Week #4 (March 18th): Risk and uncertainty
- "Sittercity." Harvard Business Case (2009).
- "Disciplined entrepreneurship." Sloan Management Review (2004).
- "Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies." Journal of Business
Venturing (1999). Do your best to read the whole article.
- "The No Man." Bloomberg Businessweek (2013).
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 5 (by Label)
- Homework: https://uvafeb.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3wb6SP8r5bZEMqV
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Please read for Week #5 (April 1st): The emotions of entrepreneurship
- Health Nut (2009)
- Note on Decision-Making, Emotions, and Entrepreneurship (2008)
- The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship (2013)
- Accounting for non-accountants ch 8 (by Label)
- Homework:
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Please read for Week #6 (April 15th): Capture of value
- "ttools." Kellogg Business Case (2006).
- "Appropriating the returns from industrial research and development." Brookings Papers on
Economic Activity (1987). Please read only pp 783-813.
- "Disciplined entrepreneurship." Sloan Management Review (2004).
- "Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies." Journal of Business
Venturing (1999). Do your best to read the whole article.
- "The value captor's process." Harvard Business Review (2007).
- Homework:
Short Papers are due in Week #7, via Qualtrics. The deadline for Short Papers is 11:59pm on Tuesday 22nd April. Please see your syllabus for details.
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Misc readings
- "Explicitly searching for useful inventions: Dynamic relatedness and the costs of connecting versus synthesizing." Scientometrics (2011).
- "How to kill a team's creativity?" Harvard Business Review (2002).
- “Opportunity discovery, problem solving, and the theory of the entrepreneurial firm." Journal of
Management Studies (2007). (Do your best. It's OK to skip the stuff about the hazards.)
- "Dangers of feeling like a fake."
- "Explicitly searching for useful inventions: Dynamic relatedness and the costs of connecting versus synthesizing." Scientometrics (2011).
- "How to kill a team's creativity?" Harvard Business Review (2002).
- “Opportunity discovery, problem solving, and the theory of the entrepreneurial firm." Journal of
Management Studies (2007). (Do your best. It's OK to skip the stuff about the hazards.)
- "Dangers of feeling like a fake."