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Entrepreneurship https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/1260043738.jpeg 11 2020 9781260043730 Entrepreneurship, by Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters and Dean Shepherd has been designed to clearly instruct students on the process of formulating, planning, and implementing a new venture. Students are exposed to detailed descriptions of ‘how to’ embark on a new venture in a logical manner. Comprehensive cases at the end of the text have been hand-picked by the authors to go hand-in-hand with chapter concepts, helping to reinforce key topics. The superb author team of Hisrich, Peters, and Shepherd draw from their distinct backgrounds to create a book that addresses the dynamics of todays entrepreneurial challenges. From Bob Hisrichs expertise in global entrepreneurship to Mike Peters background as a both a real-life entrepreneur and academic to Dean Shepherds current research on cognition and entrepreneurial mindset, this book balances the crucial line between modern theory and practice. Includes Connect: A highly reliable, easy-to-use homework and learning management solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools to improve student results.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship, 11th Edition

ISBN10: 1260043738 | ISBN13: 9781260043730
By Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters and Dean Shepherd

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Entrepreneurship, by Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters and Dean Shepherd has been designed to clearly instruct students on the process of formulating, planning, and implementing a new venture. Students are exposed to detailed descriptions of ‘how to’ embark on a new venture in a logical manner. Comprehensive cases at the end of the text have been hand-picked by the authors to go hand-in-hand with chapter concepts, helping to reinforce key topics. The superb author team of Hisrich, Peters, and Shepherd draw from their distinct backgrounds to create a book that addresses the dynamics of todays entrepreneurial challenges. From Bob Hisrichs expertise in global entrepreneurship to Mike Peters background as a both a real-life entrepreneur and academic to Dean Shepherds current research on cognition and entrepreneurial mindset, this book balances the crucial line between modern theory and practice. Includes Connect: A highly reliable, easy-to-use homework and learning management solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools to improve student results.

PART 1 THE ENTREPRENEURIALPERSPECTIVE

1 The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set

2 Corporate Entrepreneurship

3 Generating and exploring new entries

PART 2 FROM IDEA TOTHE OPPORTUNITY

4 Creativity and the Business Idea

5 Identifying and Analyzing Domestic and International Opportunities

6 Protecting the Idea and Other Legal Issues for the Entrepreneur

PART 3 FROM THEOPPORTUNITY TO THE BUSINESS PLAN

7 The Business Plan: Creating and Starting the Venture

8 The Marketing Plan

9 The Organizational Plan

10 The Financial Plan

PART 4 FROM THEBUSINESS PLAN TO FUNDING THE VENTURE

11 Sources of Capital

12 Informal Risk Capital, Venture Capital, and Going Public

PART 5 FROM FUNDINGTHE VENTURE TO LAUNCHING, GROWING, AND ENDING THE NEW VENTURE

13 Strategies for growth and managing implications of growth

14 Accessing resources for growth from external sources

15 Succession Planning and Strategies for Harvesting and Endingthe Venture

PART 6 CASES

CASE 1 TURNER TEST PREP CO.

CASE 2 JIM BOOTHE, THE INVENTOR

CASE 3 A. MONROE LOCK AND SECURITY SYSTEMS

CASE 4 BEIJING SAMMIES

CASE 5 INTELLIGENT LEISURE SOLUTIONS

CASE 6 THE BEACH CARRIER

CASE 7 GORUMET TO GO

CASE 8 THE GRILL KLEEN CORPORATION

CASE 9 MASI TECHNOLOGY

CASE 10   NEOMED TECHNOLOGIES

CASE 11 MAYU LLC

CASE 12 NATURE BROS LTD.

CASE 13 AMY’S BREAD

CASE 14 SUPPLY DYNAMICS

CASE 15 DATAVANTAGE CORPORATION

CASE 16 TIRE VALET: A MOBILE TIRE COMPANY

 

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About the Author

Robert Hisrich

Robert D. Hisrich is the Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Director of the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird. He is also president of H&B Associates, a marketing and management consulting firm he founded.

Professor Hisrich received his B.A. from DePauw University, his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, and honorary doctorate degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and the University of Miskolc (Hungary). Prior to joining Thunderbird, Dr. Hisrich held the A. Malachi Mixon, III Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hisrich was a Fulbright Professor at the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary in 1989. In 1990-91 he was again named a Fulbright Professor in Budapest at the Foundation for Small Enterprise Economic Development, where he also held the Alexander Hamilton Chair in Entrepreneurship. Dr. Hisrich has held visiting professorships at: the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); the Technical University of Vienna (Austria); the University of Limerick (Ireland); the Queensland University of Technology (Australia); The University of Puerto Rico; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He has authored or co-authored twenty-five books, including Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a New Enterprise (translated into nine languages and now in its seventh edition), The 13 Biggest Mistakes that Derail Small Businesses and How to Avoid Them and Marketing. Dr. Hisrich has written over 300 articles on entrepreneurship, international business management, and venture capital, which have appeared in such journals as The Academy of Management Review, California Management Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Sloan Management Review, and Small Business Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship. Besides designing and delivering management and entrepreneurship programs to U.S. and foreign businesses and governments, particularly in transition economies, Dr. Hisrich has instituted academic and training programs such as the university/industry training program in Hungary, a high school teachers entrepreneurship training program in Russia, an Institute of International Entrepreneurship and Management in Russia, and an Entrepreneurship Center in Ukraine.

Michael Peters

Dean Shepherd

Dean A. Shepherd. University of Colorado

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