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Introduction to MGMT 484
Agenda
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•
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What is “entrepreneurship”?
Why be an entrepreneur? Why not?
Why should you be interested in this
class?
QUESTION #1
• What is entrepreneurship?
• Can we define it?
• What do you think?
Some Modern Definitions
• Scott Shane (Case Western) – “Entrepreneurship is an
activity that involves the discovery, evaluation and
exploitation of opportunities to introduce new goods
and services, ways of organizing, markets, processes,
and new materials through organizing efforts that
previously had not existed.”
• Howard Stevenson (Harvard) – “.. The pursuit of
opportunity without regard to resources currently
controlled.”
• W. Gibb Dyer, Jr. (BYU) – “The founding of new
businesses is the essence of entrepreneurial activity.”
What is Entrepreneurship?
•
•
•
•
•
•

Cantillon (1700’s)
Say (1803)
Knight (1921)
Schumpeter (1934)
Kirzner (1973)
Gartner (1988)
Richard Cantillon (1697-1734)
• The entrepreneur is a specialist in taking
on risk
• He “insures” workers by buying their
products (or labor services) for resale
before consumers have indicated how
much they are willing to pay.
Frank Knight (1885-1972)
• Entrepreneur has a two-fold function
– Exercising responsible control (directing the work of
others)
– Securing the owners of productive services against
uncertainty and fluctuations in their incomes

• Distinguished between risk, which is insurable,
and uncertainty, which is not
– Uncertainty includes things like changes affecting the
marketing of consumer products (e.g., fashion trends)

• Profit compensates entrepreneur for bearing
uncertainty
Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950)
• (1934) - “implements change (‘creative
destruction’) within markets through the
carrying out of new combinations”.
• (1942) – The entrepreneurial function “does
not essentially consist in either inventing
anything or otherwise creating the conditions
which the enterprise exploits. It consists in
getting things done.”
• A lot of what an entrepreneur does on a dayto-day basis is not “entrepreneurial”
Israel Kirzner
• Entrepreneur is an arbitrageur
• He or she discovers previously
unknown market opportunities
• Key characteristic is
entrepreneurial “alertness”
Synthesis of “Entrepreneurship”
• In general, even entrepreneurship
researchers can’t agree on what the “best”
definition of entrepreneurship is
• Two main camps
– Discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of
opportunities
– Starting new businesses
Synthesis of “Entrepreneurship”
• Previous economists do a nice job
defining entrepreneurship
– Concerned with decisions surrounding new
profit opportunities
– Concerned with assembling resources
– All in the midst of uncertainty

• But they don’t address who is likely to be
an entrepreneur, or even more important,
a successful entrepreneur
The Economic View of the
Entrepreneurial Decision
access to
resources

other job
opportunities

ability to
organize
resources

specialized
skills

knowledge

entrepreneurship
orientation
Expected
Performance

≥

Performance
Threshold

Source: Gimeno, Folta, Cooper, & Woo (1997). “Survival of the fittest? Entrepreneurial human capital and the persistence of
underperforming firms”. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42: 750-783.
Job generation
• Large firms add and tend to cut back with the business
cycle.
• In most business cycles, small firms add relatively higher
percentage of total net new jobs during the recession
phase.
– During the decade of the 1980’s, the Fortune 1000 cut 3.5 million
jobs
– During the same period, small firms added 10 million jobs
– In 2001, new firm births declined 5.0% and closures rose 4.5%

– the fraction of employment accounted for by business
startups in the U.S. private sector over the 1980-2005
period is about 3 percent per year. This exceeds the 1.8
percent average annual net employment growth. This pattern
implies that job destruction exceeds job creation at existing
businesses and highlights the importance of business
startups for job creation in the U.S. economy
Entrepreneurship is a Multi-step Process

Recognize
Opportunities

Evaluate

Exploit

See also Amar Bhide’s article “The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer” in case packet.
Market
Attractiveness

Industry
Attractiveness

Mission
Aspiration
Propensity for Risk

Ability to Execute
On CSFs

Target
Segment
Value Created

Sustainable
Advantage

Value Chain
Connectedness
QUESTION #2
• Why be an
entrepreneur?
• What do you think?
Why should you be interested?
• Many young people have succeeded:
– Michael Dell - Dell Computers
– Frank Carney - Pizza Hut
– Paul Orfalea - Kinko’s
– Fred DeLuca - Subway.
– Kristy Taylor - SkinCareRx.com

• Opportunity to reap large profits
Why should you be interested ?(cont.)
• Invulnerability of Youth
– Confident, resilient, and ignorant
– Minimum exposure to failure

• Limited Responsibility
– Marriage, children, car, home, etc. suggest higher
opportunity costs if failure

• Physical and Emotional Strength
– Better ability to burn the candle at both ends
Why should you be interested? (cont.)
• Available Resources
– Many are waiting for you to ask for help.
– Take advantage of your “harmless” appearance

• Opportunity to control own destiny
• Opportunity to reach your full potential
• Opportunity to make a difference
– With employees – Jim Dodson, The Dodson Group
– With social concerns – Steve Row, Sun Garden
Furniture
Source: Dun & Bradstreet 19th Annual Small Business Survey, 2000
Why should you be interested? (cont.)
• Number of young entrepreneurs is increasing
– Jobless managers and execs <40 starting their own
businesses surged to 36% in 2002-1.a
– <25s are 7% of all business start-ups in England.b
• 44% of young entrepreneurs are women, compared to 33%
of all entrepreneurs
• 9% of young entrepreneurs come from non-white ethnicity
• Young entrepreneurs are better prepared – 43% prepare a
business plan, compared to 39% of all entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur numbers increase”, East Bay Business Times-May 28, 2002.
“Young Entrepreneurs: Tomorrow’s Business Leaders” , December 4, 2001, published by Barclays

a“
b
Owner Ages at Business Formation
35%

33%

32%

30%
25%
20%
Percent of Owners

15%

16%
11%

10%

6%

5%

2%

0%
Under 25

25-34

35-44

45-54
Age

Sources: National Federation of Independent Business and Wells Fargo Bank

55-64

65 or over
Why NOT to be an Entrepreneur
• Uncertainty of income
• Risk of losing entire invested capital
• Lower quality of life until business gets
established
• High levels of stress
• Complete responsibility
New Firm Survival Rates
•

According to Dun & Bradstreet study of businesses between 1989-1992:
– 66% of businesses remain open at least 2 years.
– 50% remain open at least 4 years.
– 40% remain open at least 6 years.

• Study of Canadian firms found roughly the same:
Why should you be interested in this class?
• Help overcome high rate of failure
• It is the entrepreneur, not the idea that can
provide the advantage
• Training in entrepreneurship becoming
more commonplace
• Importance of business plans
• Provides a simulation experience
Today’s Learning Objectives
• Understanding the roots of entrepreneurship.
• Understanding the entrepreneurial process.
• Understanding that entrepreneurial opportunities
exist for a number of reasons.
• Understanding many of the benefits to being an
entrepreneur, and that the benefits come with
risks.
• Understanding that this class is designed to help
protect against those risks.
For Next Time

• Prepare R&R Case
– Calculate the breakeven level of sales units
for Bob Reiss and two other stakeholders
• Review of breakeven analysis -

http://www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P06_7530.asp

• (Use the actual numbers in the case, not the
forecasted numbers)

– (Re)-read material on the case method
• Plan on attending evening movie on 1/20
• Take a look at Special Topics projects

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Session 2 fundamentals of entrepreneurship

  • 2. Agenda • • • What is “entrepreneurship”? Why be an entrepreneur? Why not? Why should you be interested in this class?
  • 3. QUESTION #1 • What is entrepreneurship? • Can we define it? • What do you think?
  • 4. Some Modern Definitions • Scott Shane (Case Western) – “Entrepreneurship is an activity that involves the discovery, evaluation and exploitation of opportunities to introduce new goods and services, ways of organizing, markets, processes, and new materials through organizing efforts that previously had not existed.” • Howard Stevenson (Harvard) – “.. The pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” • W. Gibb Dyer, Jr. (BYU) – “The founding of new businesses is the essence of entrepreneurial activity.”
  • 5. What is Entrepreneurship? • • • • • • Cantillon (1700’s) Say (1803) Knight (1921) Schumpeter (1934) Kirzner (1973) Gartner (1988)
  • 6. Richard Cantillon (1697-1734) • The entrepreneur is a specialist in taking on risk • He “insures” workers by buying their products (or labor services) for resale before consumers have indicated how much they are willing to pay.
  • 7. Frank Knight (1885-1972) • Entrepreneur has a two-fold function – Exercising responsible control (directing the work of others) – Securing the owners of productive services against uncertainty and fluctuations in their incomes • Distinguished between risk, which is insurable, and uncertainty, which is not – Uncertainty includes things like changes affecting the marketing of consumer products (e.g., fashion trends) • Profit compensates entrepreneur for bearing uncertainty
  • 8. Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) • (1934) - “implements change (‘creative destruction’) within markets through the carrying out of new combinations”. • (1942) – The entrepreneurial function “does not essentially consist in either inventing anything or otherwise creating the conditions which the enterprise exploits. It consists in getting things done.” • A lot of what an entrepreneur does on a dayto-day basis is not “entrepreneurial”
  • 9. Israel Kirzner • Entrepreneur is an arbitrageur • He or she discovers previously unknown market opportunities • Key characteristic is entrepreneurial “alertness”
  • 10. Synthesis of “Entrepreneurship” • In general, even entrepreneurship researchers can’t agree on what the “best” definition of entrepreneurship is • Two main camps – Discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities – Starting new businesses
  • 11. Synthesis of “Entrepreneurship” • Previous economists do a nice job defining entrepreneurship – Concerned with decisions surrounding new profit opportunities – Concerned with assembling resources – All in the midst of uncertainty • But they don’t address who is likely to be an entrepreneur, or even more important, a successful entrepreneur
  • 12. The Economic View of the Entrepreneurial Decision access to resources other job opportunities ability to organize resources specialized skills knowledge entrepreneurship orientation Expected Performance ≥ Performance Threshold Source: Gimeno, Folta, Cooper, & Woo (1997). “Survival of the fittest? Entrepreneurial human capital and the persistence of underperforming firms”. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42: 750-783.
  • 13. Job generation • Large firms add and tend to cut back with the business cycle. • In most business cycles, small firms add relatively higher percentage of total net new jobs during the recession phase. – During the decade of the 1980’s, the Fortune 1000 cut 3.5 million jobs – During the same period, small firms added 10 million jobs – In 2001, new firm births declined 5.0% and closures rose 4.5% – the fraction of employment accounted for by business startups in the U.S. private sector over the 1980-2005 period is about 3 percent per year. This exceeds the 1.8 percent average annual net employment growth. This pattern implies that job destruction exceeds job creation at existing businesses and highlights the importance of business startups for job creation in the U.S. economy
  • 14. Entrepreneurship is a Multi-step Process Recognize Opportunities Evaluate Exploit See also Amar Bhide’s article “The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer” in case packet.
  • 15. Market Attractiveness Industry Attractiveness Mission Aspiration Propensity for Risk Ability to Execute On CSFs Target Segment Value Created Sustainable Advantage Value Chain Connectedness
  • 16. QUESTION #2 • Why be an entrepreneur? • What do you think?
  • 17. Why should you be interested? • Many young people have succeeded: – Michael Dell - Dell Computers – Frank Carney - Pizza Hut – Paul Orfalea - Kinko’s – Fred DeLuca - Subway. – Kristy Taylor - SkinCareRx.com • Opportunity to reap large profits
  • 18. Why should you be interested ?(cont.) • Invulnerability of Youth – Confident, resilient, and ignorant – Minimum exposure to failure • Limited Responsibility – Marriage, children, car, home, etc. suggest higher opportunity costs if failure • Physical and Emotional Strength – Better ability to burn the candle at both ends
  • 19. Why should you be interested? (cont.) • Available Resources – Many are waiting for you to ask for help. – Take advantage of your “harmless” appearance • Opportunity to control own destiny • Opportunity to reach your full potential • Opportunity to make a difference – With employees – Jim Dodson, The Dodson Group – With social concerns – Steve Row, Sun Garden Furniture
  • 20. Source: Dun & Bradstreet 19th Annual Small Business Survey, 2000
  • 21. Why should you be interested? (cont.) • Number of young entrepreneurs is increasing – Jobless managers and execs <40 starting their own businesses surged to 36% in 2002-1.a – <25s are 7% of all business start-ups in England.b • 44% of young entrepreneurs are women, compared to 33% of all entrepreneurs • 9% of young entrepreneurs come from non-white ethnicity • Young entrepreneurs are better prepared – 43% prepare a business plan, compared to 39% of all entrepreneurs Entrepreneur numbers increase”, East Bay Business Times-May 28, 2002. “Young Entrepreneurs: Tomorrow’s Business Leaders” , December 4, 2001, published by Barclays a“ b
  • 22. Owner Ages at Business Formation 35% 33% 32% 30% 25% 20% Percent of Owners 15% 16% 11% 10% 6% 5% 2% 0% Under 25 25-34 35-44 45-54 Age Sources: National Federation of Independent Business and Wells Fargo Bank 55-64 65 or over
  • 23. Why NOT to be an Entrepreneur • Uncertainty of income • Risk of losing entire invested capital • Lower quality of life until business gets established • High levels of stress • Complete responsibility
  • 24. New Firm Survival Rates • According to Dun & Bradstreet study of businesses between 1989-1992: – 66% of businesses remain open at least 2 years. – 50% remain open at least 4 years. – 40% remain open at least 6 years. • Study of Canadian firms found roughly the same:
  • 25. Why should you be interested in this class? • Help overcome high rate of failure • It is the entrepreneur, not the idea that can provide the advantage • Training in entrepreneurship becoming more commonplace • Importance of business plans • Provides a simulation experience
  • 26. Today’s Learning Objectives • Understanding the roots of entrepreneurship. • Understanding the entrepreneurial process. • Understanding that entrepreneurial opportunities exist for a number of reasons. • Understanding many of the benefits to being an entrepreneur, and that the benefits come with risks. • Understanding that this class is designed to help protect against those risks.
  • 27. For Next Time • Prepare R&R Case – Calculate the breakeven level of sales units for Bob Reiss and two other stakeholders • Review of breakeven analysis - http://www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P06_7530.asp • (Use the actual numbers in the case, not the forecasted numbers) – (Re)-read material on the case method • Plan on attending evening movie on 1/20 • Take a look at Special Topics projects