I finished up my Essentials of Economics class yesterday. Took a 2 hour exam on macroeconomics. I have to say that the class definitely exceeded my expectations. The instructor's goal was to allow us to pick up the Wall Street Journal and understand the majority of what's written in there. It's amazing how much I just used to gloss over most of those articles about the economy. I can only hope that every major world leader understands the basics of economics. Now that I finished the class I can't imagine having not taken it.
I think Duke can have one of the strongest entrepreneurial communities in the world. Are we there yet? Well, not yet. But there's a tremendous amount of momentum that I saw build in just the past two years while I was getting my MBA at Duke. While leading Duke's 10th annual business plan competition, the Duke Start-Up Challenge (DSC) , last year, I witnessed a near doubling of participation on campus in just a single year. The interest on the ground was clearly there and building rapidly. But now that I'm an alum, I'm looking back and wondering ... how do we rev-up the Duke entrepreneurial community even more? I read a great article by Daniel Isenberg, a professor of management at Babson, called " How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution " in the June edition of the Harvard Business Review. Isenberg outlines nine prescriptions for governments that want to create entrepreneurship ecosystems in their countries. Although he was focused on governments an
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