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• Lessons of the Last Bubble

  - 2007-07-01

  Notable Papers and ArticlesLessons of the Last Bubble; Tim Laseter, David Kirsch, and Brent Goldfarb; strategy + business; www.strategy-business.com/resiliencereport/ resilience/rr00044This paper by faculty from the University of Virginia Darden School Laseter and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business finds that the dot-com failure rate between 2000 and 2002...

  Tags: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, University of Maryland, University of Virginia

• Top 50 programs/national

  - 2005-04-01

  ABOUT THE RANKINGS Entrepreneurship programs typically fall into one of three categories: Comprehensive offering the widest variety of resources, Entrepreneurship Emphasis (a smaller number of entrepreneurship faculty, courses and initiatives), or Limited Curriculum only a few faculty teaching a limited number of courses. The study identified and ranked...

  Tags: Boston, Chicago, Columbia University, Computer Associates International Inc., Entrepreneurship, HARDWARE, Philadelphia, Syracuse University, University of Arizona, University of Virginia

• Rita Frances Dove

  - 2005-01-01

  Rita Frances Dove Rita Frances Dove (born 1952) is a poet, writer, and educator. In 1993, she became the youngest to hold the title of poet laureate of the United States Library of Congress. In announcing Rita Frances Dove's appointment, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said, "I take much...

  Tags: CAREER, Entrepreneurship, Germany, professor, University of Virginia

• Traveling Salesman Markets Wares to Fans at College Park, Md., Football Game.

  - 2003-11-13

  By Kathy Van Mullekom, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 13--NEWPORT NEWS, Va. John Smith and his mobile football field cruise college campuses, hoping to cash in on fans eager to display their team spirit. ...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, football, Games, MARKETING, mobile, University of Virginia

• Rita Frances Dove

  - 2003-01-01

  Rita Frances Dove Rita Frances Dove (born 1952) is a poet, writer, and educator. In 1993, she became the youngest to hold the title of poet laureate of the United States Library of Congress. In announcing Rita Frances Dove's appointment, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said, "I take much...

  Tags: CAREER, Entrepreneurship, Germany, professor, University of Virginia

• Darden School Business Plan Competition Showcases Ventures

  - 2001-04-27

  Business Editors/Education Writers CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 27, 2001 The busy young parents of twins envision a personalized baby book created online, then custom-printed. A University of Virginia research professor's years of research result in a patent for a revolutionary drug that may greatly reduce death from heart and...

  Tags: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, professor, University of Virginia

• A Renaissance Man.(Bill Crutchfield, founder of Crutchfield Corp.)

  - 2001-01-01

  Bill Crutchfield "Success is measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles one has overcome," said Booker T. Washington. Those words ring true for any entrepreneur, including Bill Crutchfield, founder of Crutchfield Corp. ...

  Tags: call-center, car, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Retail, University of Virginia, Virginia