Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs To Fail

By Sramana Mitra I know I am entering highly contentious territory. Academia generally looks down upon entrepreneurs even as they teach entrepreneurship in business schools and other university programs around the world. Meanwhile, I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and little

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Entrepreneurship Education: What DO B-Schools Teach About Venture Capital?

In case you thought otherwise based on the two recent discussions, What B-Schools Don’t Teach You About Venture Capital and Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs To Fail, I actually strongly believe that financing strategy is a very important piece of entrepreneurship education. Venture Capital MUST be taught at B-schools and even engineering schools trying to

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Weigh In On …

Here are three topics for your to weigh in on based on recent discussions: * Are B-Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? * Deficit Reduction: Speculation Tax? * Should short-selling be banned? – The uptick rule got reinstated this week, by the way.

Financial Crisis & Short-Selling

I am not an expert on financial markets. To the extent I write about stocks and markets, I stick to what I know and understand: technology, products, business, and strategy. However, I have often wondered what good does short-selling bring about as a financial tool.

Rakesh Khurana’s Business School Mission Critique

I read an interesting piece in the WSJ this week called Business Schools Forgetting Missions. :: Business-school professors are masters at critiquing everyone else’s work. They pick apart Microsoft Corp.’s strategy; they rebuke Enron-era companies for ethics breakdowns. They are so busy gazing outward that it’s unthinkable for them to rip into their own institutions.

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