Profiles in Entrepreneurship or Business Concepts for English Practice

Profiles in Entrepreneurship: Leaving More Than Footprints

Author: David C Nelson

Profiles in Entrepreneurship showcases success through the experiences of 29 highly successful entrepreneurs in their own words. Learn about topics like opportunity recognition, risk assessment, leadership, and how to compensate for limited resources from the first-hand accounts of leaders like Herb Kelleher, Red McCombs, and Katie Brickman Harvey. Each profile includes a look at their driving motivation, tactics, and strategies, highlights of their professional experiences, and a question and answer session. Also included is 2 hours of video--where the profiled entrepreneurs discuss their experiences as if they were addressing your own class. Profiles in Entrepreneurship provides the real-world experience and wisdom in a way that both engages and informs.

Table of Contents:

1. Sam Barshop, Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 2. Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines 3. Ray Benson, Bandleader, Asleep at the Wheel 4. Stacey Bishkin, BBH Exhibits, Inc. 5. Randi Shade, Charitygift.com 6. Heriberto Guerra, Jr., SBC Communications, Inc. 7. Robert F. McDermott, USAA 8. Richard E. Tankerson, Carver Academy via Metropolitan Transit Authority 9. Jim Kozlowski, Texas Growth Fund & TGF Management Corp. 10. Walter Embrey, Embrey Development Company 11. C. Patrick Oles, Jr., Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 12. Lowell Lebermann, Centex Beverage, Inc. 13. Nelson Wolff, Sun Harvest Foods 14. Katie Brickman Harvey, KG Brickman, Inc. 15. Charles E. Amato, Southwest Business Corporation/Employees Life Holding Company 16. Steve Hicks, AMFM, Inc. 17. Ian Fisher, Builders First Source 18. Gary Woods, McCombs Enterprises 19. Jan A. Lehman, Lehman McLeskey 20. Thomas Meredith, Dell Ventures 21. Jesse Luxton, Former President, CEO National Picture and Frame 22. Bob Marbut, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. 23. Sonny Melendrez, Radio Personality 24. Peter Holt, The Holt Companies 25. Todd Maclin, Chase Bank 26. H.B. Zachry, Jr., H.B. Zachry Company 27. Bobby Inman, Venture Capitalist 28. Lionel Sosa, Media Consultant 29. Red McCombs, McCombs Automotive/Minnesota Vikings

Go to: Reflexology for Womens Health or Resiliency in the Face of Disaster and Terrorism

Business Concepts for English Practice

Author: Barbara Tolley Dowling

This book is a business-oriented English text with both an academic and an applied focus. It is intended for intermediate to advanced students of English who have an academic and/or professional interest in business. For students with little or no business terms are defined in the glossary. Those with experience in the business world and advanced language proficiency will be able to move more quickly through the readings and on to move more quickly through the readings and on to the application exercises and task-based activities.