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Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson College, USA
Buenos Aires, Argentina • March 28–30, 2007
IAE-Universidad Austral
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad de San Andrés
Buenos Aires, Argentina
THE INSTITUTIONS
Babson College, the global leader in entrepreneurship education and research, IAE-Universidad Austral, and
Universidad de San Andrés, are bringing an exciting opportunity to Argentina. Through the Price-Babson
Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE), Babson College has shared its entrepreneurship education
expertise with academics and entrepreneurs from around the world. For more than 20 years, the Price-Babson
program has been the foremost entrepreneurship faculty development program, with more than 1,350 alumni
worldwide. Participants, who consist of academics teamed with entrepreneurs, are encouraged to identify, plan,
and personalize their entrepreneurship teaching strategy, as well as to improve as teachers, learners, researchers,
colleagues, and entrepreneurs.
Now, with the support of a Babson Argentinian alumnus, Babson College and our partner schools are pleased to
bring a customized version of SEE to entrepreneurship educators in Argentina. In an intensive, three-day Babson
SEE program at IAE-Universidad Austral, we will explore the entrepreneurial process, the “art and craft” of teaching
and learning entrepreneurship, and core topics in the discipline. The goal of the program is to help all participants
become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship. While the course will be taught primarily in
English, simultaneous translation will be available for those more comfortable with Spanish. Topics covered in the
program include:
• The Quest for Master Teaching • Family Enterprising
• Mapping the Entrepreneurship Territory • Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mind-set • Entrepreneurship Curriculum and Alternative Pedagogies
• New Venture Creation • Entrepreneurial Finance
• The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action
PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROGRAM
Who should attend? Anyone actively involved in teaching entrepreneurship in the region or who would like to
become involved! Even those with years of teaching experience will find this a valuable learning and sharing expe-
rience. Ideally, your college or university should have a serious commitment to entrepreneurship education and
research. It already may have entrepreneurship courses, an entrepreneurship major, or perhaps plans to launch one
soon. Those who hope to expand faculty and course offerings will certainly want to consider attending this program.
Please note that the program requires attendees to apply in teams, where each team consists, at a minimum, of one
teacher and one entrepreneur interested in the teaching of entrepreneurship. In addition, because of the important
role that government policy can play in encouraging and supporting the creation of new enterprises in Argentina,
the Babson SEE program encourages the participation of a number of policymakers from throughout the region.
Therefore, we encourage universities interested in attending to include faculty, entrepreneurs, and policymakers
on their teams.
WHY REQUIRE TEAMS WITH ENTREPRENEURS?
We require that each team include an entrepreneur because, quite simply, entrepreneurs can make excellent teachers.
This belief is rooted in several premises:
• Teaching effectiveness and educational value in new ventures and entrepreneurship courses can be
greatly enhanced by educators who bring significant entrepreneurial experience to the classroom.
• Successful entrepreneurs are, by necessity and natural inclination, superior learners and superior teachers—
they do this every day. Many have a keen interest in teaching, but feel a need for assistance with
teaching skills, syllabus and course development, and pedagogy—especially the case method—and related
“how-to-teach” approaches. They know they cannot be effective with “war stories” alone.
• These prospective educators are sensitive to the need to balance relevant, rigorous, and disciplined
course content and pedagogy with the unique lessons and insights that practical experience alone
can bring into the classroom.
BABSON COLLEGE
Stephen Spinelli Jr., vice provost for entrepreneurship and global management and The Lewis Family
Distinguished Professor at Babson College, was a founder of Jiffy Lube International Inc., a national franchise;
and founder, chairman, and CEO of America Oil Change Corporation. He completed the Price-Babson Program
and was inspired to become a full-time educator through SEE and his MBA experience at Babson College. After
earning his PhD at the University of London, he joined Babson’s entrepreneurship faculty. Professor Spinelli
has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Boston Globe, Entrepreneur, and Inc. magazine.
He has authored numerous business cases and recently coauthored the following books: How to Raise Capital,
Business Plans That Work, Franchising: Pathway to Wealth Creation, and New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship
for the 21st Century (7th edition). His current research interests focus on the wealth creating potential of entrepre-
neurial alliances. Professor Spinelli is a consultant to national and regional companies.
Jeffry A. Timmons, Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, is
known internationally for his research, innovative curriculum development, and teaching in entrepreneurship,
new ventures, entrepreneurial finance, and venture capital. In 1984, Professor Timmons collaborated with the
Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies to launch the Price-Babson SEE Program, aimed at improving teaching
and research by teaming faculty with highly successful entrepreneurs wishing to teach. Professor Timmons has
authored several books, notably New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century (7th edition), the
groundbreaking The Entrepreneurial Mind (1989), and Venture Capital at the Crossroads (1992). For almost 40
years, he has been immersed in the world of entrepreneurship as an investor, director or adviser in private and
public companies, and investment funds. In April 2006, Professor Timmons was appointed chair of the
International Academic Steering Committee for the National Entrepreneurship Research Center at Tsinghua
University in Beijing, China.
IAE-UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL
Sylvia Torres Carbonell is a full-time professor at IAE Business School, Universidad Austral,
in Buenos Aires, Argentina; founder and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the
same school; and director of the Argentinian GEM research team. Also, she has been the coor-
dinator of the International Development Bank-IAE Cooperation Regional Program for Small
and Medium Sized Firms training, and currently is managing director and member of the
Board of Endeavor Argentina, an international nonprofit organization with the mission to pioneer a new approach
to global development by stimulating and supporting entrepreneurship in emerging countries. She is interested in
leadership, entrepreneurship and new enterprise development, business planning for startups and new businesses
for larger companies, management of small businesses, strategic human resource management, entrepreneurial
organizational culture, and public policies to foster entrepreneurship in Latin America. Professor Torres Carbonell
completed the Price-Babson SEE program.
UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS
Sergio R. Postigo is professor and coordinator of the Karel Steuer Entrepreneurship course
at Universidad de San Andrés. Also, he is professor of economics and Industrial Development,
specializing in small and medium businesses, at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, and
at Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento. He is a visiting professor at ECSP (France) and at
UDD (Chile), and he is founder and partner of Dinamica (Network to help Entrepreneur
Societies). Professor Postigo completed his doctorate studies in the European doctoral program at Universidad
Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and at Växjö University (Sweden), with specialization in entrepreneurship.
Professor Postigo earned his MBA degrees from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales and Universidad
Autònoma de Barcelona. His areas of expertise are entrepreneurship and education, and corporate entrepreneurship.
Professor Postigo completed the Price-Babson SEE program.
APPLICATION PROCESS AND FEES
Scholarship applications must be received via e-mail or fax by February 1, 2007. Results of the application process
will be communicated by February 15, when the selected teams will receive information on how to finalize the
registration process and pay their fees. The registration fee is $1,500 (USD), which covers the cost of registration,
program sessions, and materials for the duration of the program.
We look forward to welcoming you to Babson SEE in Argentina!
INQUIRIES CAN BE SENT TO:
Enio Pinto
Program Manager
Institute for Latin American Business
Babson College, Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
+781-239-5833 (phone); +781-239-6410 (fax)
[email protected]
Janet Strimaitis
Managing Director
Symposia for Entrepreneurship Educators
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson College, Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
+781-239-5023 (phone); +781-239-4178 (fax)
[email protected]
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During this description point arthur m. blank center for entrepreneurship babson college, usa.
bg
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson College, USA
Buenos Aires, Argentina • March 28–30, 2007
IAE-Universidad Austral
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad de San Andrés
Buenos Aires, Argentina
THE INSTITUTIONS
Babson College, the global leader in entrepreneurship education and research, IAE-Universidad Austral, and
Universidad de San Andrés, are bringing an exciting opportunity to Argentina. Through the Price-Babson
Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE), Babson College has shared its entrepreneurship education
expertise with academics and entrepreneurs from around the world. For more than 20 years, the Price-Babson
program has been the foremost entrepreneurship faculty development program, with more than 1,350 alumni
worldwide. Participants, who consist of academics teamed with entrepreneurs, are encouraged to identify, plan,
and personalize their entrepreneurship teaching strategy, as well as to improve as teachers, learners, researchers,
colleagues, and entrepreneurs.
Now, with the support of a Babson Argentinian alumnus, Babson College and our partner schools are pleased to
bring a customized version of SEE to entrepreneurship educators in Argentina. In an intensive, three-day Babson
SEE program at IAE-Universidad Austral, we will explore the entrepreneurial process, the “art and craft” of teaching
and learning entrepreneurship, and core topics in the discipline. The goal of the program is to help all participants
become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship. While the course will be taught primarily in
English, simultaneous translation will be available for those more comfortable with Spanish. Topics covered in the
program include:
• The Quest for Master Teaching • Family Enterprising
• Mapping the Entrepreneurship Territory • Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mind-set • Entrepreneurship Curriculum and Alternative Pedagogies
• New Venture Creation • Entrepreneurial Finance
• The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action
PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROGRAM
Who should attend? Anyone actively involved in teaching entrepreneurship in the region or who would like to
become involved! Even those with years of teaching experience will find this a valuable learning and sharing expe-
rience. Ideally, your college or university should have a serious commitment to entrepreneurship education and
research. It already may have entrepreneurship courses, an entrepreneurship major, or perhaps plans to launch one
soon. Those who hope to expand faculty and course offerings will certainly want to consider attending this program.
Please note that the program requires attendees to apply in teams, where each team consists, at a minimum, of one
teacher and one entrepreneur interested in the teaching of entrepreneurship. In addition, because of the important
role that government policy can play in encouraging and supporting the creation of new enterprises in Argentina,
the Babson SEE program encourages the participation of a number of policymakers from throughout the region.
Therefore, we encourage universities interested in attending to include faculty, entrepreneurs, and policymakers
on their teams.
WHY REQUIRE TEAMS WITH ENTREPRENEURS?
We require that each team include an entrepreneur because, quite simply, entrepreneurs can make excellent teachers.
This belief is rooted in several premises:
• Teaching effectiveness and educational value in new ventures and entrepreneurship courses can be
greatly enhanced by educators who bring significant entrepreneurial experience to the classroom.
• Successful entrepreneurs are, by necessity and natural inclination, superior learners and superior teachers—
they do this every day. Many have a keen interest in teaching, but feel a need for assistance with
teaching skills, syllabus and course development, and pedagogy—especially the case method—and related
“how-to-teach” approaches. They know they cannot be effective with “war stories” alone.
• These prospective educators are sensitive to the need to balance relevant, rigorous, and disciplined
course content and pedagogy with the unique lessons and insights that practical experience alone
can bring into the classroom.
BABSON COLLEGE
Stephen Spinelli Jr., vice provost for entrepreneurship and global management and The Lewis Family
Distinguished Professor at Babson College, was a founder of Jiffy Lube International Inc., a national franchise;
and founder, chairman, and CEO of America Oil Change Corporation. He completed the Price-Babson Program
and was inspired to become a full-time educator through SEE and his MBA experience at Babson College. After
earning his PhD at the University of London, he joined Babson’s entrepreneurship faculty. Professor Spinelli
has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Boston Globe, Entrepreneur, and Inc. magazine.
He has authored numerous business cases and recently coauthored the following books: How to Raise Capital,
Business Plans That Work, Franchising: Pathway to Wealth Creation, and New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship
for the 21st Century (7th edition). His current research interests focus on the wealth creating potential of entrepre-
neurial alliances. Professor Spinelli is a consultant to national and regional companies.
Jeffry A. Timmons, Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, is
known internationally for his research, innovative curriculum development, and teaching in entrepreneurship,
new ventures, entrepreneurial finance, and venture capital. In 1984, Professor Timmons collaborated with the
Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies to launch the Price-Babson SEE Program, aimed at improving teaching
and research by teaming faculty with highly successful entrepreneurs wishing to teach. Professor Timmons has
authored several books, notably New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century (7th edition), the
groundbreaking The Entrepreneurial Mind (1989), and Venture Capital at the Crossroads (1992). For almost 40
years, he has been immersed in the world of entrepreneurship as an investor, director or adviser in private and
public companies, and investment funds. In April 2006, Professor Timmons was appointed chair of the
International Academic Steering Committee for the National Entrepreneurship Research Center at Tsinghua
University in Beijing, China.
IAE-UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL
Sylvia Torres Carbonell is a full-time professor at IAE Business School, Universidad Austral,
in Buenos Aires, Argentina; founder and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the
same school; and director of the Argentinian GEM research team. Also, she has been the coor-
dinator of the International Development Bank-IAE Cooperation Regional Program for Small
and Medium Sized Firms training, and currently is managing director and member of the
Board of Endeavor Argentina, an international nonprofit organization with the mission to pioneer a new approach
to global development by stimulating and supporting entrepreneurship in emerging countries. She is interested in
leadership, entrepreneurship and new enterprise development, business planning for startups and new businesses
for larger companies, management of small businesses, strategic human resource management, entrepreneurial
organizational culture, and public policies to foster entrepreneurship in Latin America. Professor Torres Carbonell
completed the Price-Babson SEE program.
UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS
Sergio R. Postigo is professor and coordinator of the Karel Steuer Entrepreneurship course
at Universidad de San Andrés. Also, he is professor of economics and Industrial Development,
specializing in small and medium businesses, at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, and
at Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento. He is a visiting professor at ECSP (France) and at
UDD (Chile), and he is founder and partner of Dinamica (Network to help Entrepreneur
Societies). Professor Postigo completed his doctorate studies in the European doctoral program at Universidad
Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and at Växjö University (Sweden), with specialization in entrepreneurship.
Professor Postigo earned his MBA degrees from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales and Universidad
Autònoma de Barcelona. His areas of expertise are entrepreneurship and education, and corporate entrepreneurship.
Professor Postigo completed the Price-Babson SEE program.
APPLICATION PROCESS AND FEES
Scholarship applications must be received via e-mail or fax by February 1, 2007. Results of the application process
will be communicated by February 15, when the selected teams will receive information on how to finalize the
registration process and pay their fees. The registration fee is $1,500 (USD), which covers the cost of registration,
program sessions, and materials for the duration of the program.
We look forward to welcoming you to Babson SEE in Argentina!
INQUIRIES CAN BE SENT TO:
Enio Pinto
Program Manager
Institute for Latin American Business
Babson College, Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
+781-239-5833 (phone); +781-239-6410 (fax)
[email protected]
Janet Strimaitis
Managing Director
Symposia for Entrepreneurship Educators
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson College, Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
+781-239-5023 (phone); +781-239-4178 (fax)
[email protected]
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