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Price-Babson College Symposium Educates Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship Educators

WELLESLEY, Mass., June 27 PRNewswire-USNewswire — Entrepreneurship educators from around the world joined real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2008 Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE 24) at Babson College.

The intensive four-day program explored the entrepreneurial process and core topics in the discipline. Sixty-two entrepreneurship educators — 40% international from 12 countries — attended.

The program is designed to help participants become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship. Topics covered included:

The Entrepreneurial Teacher: The Issues, The Challenges, The Stakes

Mapping the Entrepreneurship Territory

Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset

The Case Study Method

Idea Lab

Trajectories in Entrepreneurship Education: The Path of Social Entrepreneurship

Overview of Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Curriculum Design

Alternative Pedagogies for Entrepreneurship Education

The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action

Babson Professors Heidi Neck, Andrew Zacharakis, Les Charm, and Candida Brush led the program. Babson case writer Carl Hedberg gave a presentation on "Writing Mini Cases on the Fly" and Steve Mariotti spoke to the group regarding his work with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).

Since 1984, Babson has trained more than 1,880 academics and entrepreneurs from 510 academic institutions, government organizations, and foundations in 55 countries, to teach entrepreneurship combining theory and practice to tens of thousands of students each year.

Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit http://www.babson.edu.

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