From Plough to Entrepreneurship is motivated largely by the fact that Africans were deprived of economic and political autonomy by white government in South Africa. This marginalisation lies in the complex and interconnected processes of displacement and dispossession by which Africans were first dispossessed of their own land; then deprived of independent productive opportunities. The increasing scarcity of land as scarce commodity and African land ownership in Evaton, best explains the history of African local economic independence. For the local residents, land possession in Evaton provided a space where a moral economy that fostered racial pride and solidarity was forged. This richly sourced monograph develops the logical explanation that sticks together all forces that constrained Africans to give up labour to an industrial economy in Evaton. It provides the reader and student of racialised inequalities in South Africa with an understanding steeped in historical ethnography on how local Africans struggled for economic independence, and how whatever independence their struggles yielded, changed over time in Evaton.
From Heidi Neck, one of the most influential thinkers in entrepreneurship education today, Chris Neck, an award-winning professor, and Emma Murray, business consultant and author, comes this ground-breaking new text. Entrepreneurship: The Practice and Mindset catapults students beyond the classroom by helping them develop an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create opportunities and take action in uncertain environments. Based on the world-renowned Babson Entrepreneurship program, this new text emphasizes practice and learning through action. Students learn entrepreneurship by taking small actions and interacting with stakeholders in order to get feedback, experiment, and move ideas forward. Students walk away from this text with the entrepreneurial mindset, skillset, and toolset that can be applied to startups as well as organizations of all kinds. Whether your students have backgrounds in business, liberal arts, engineering, or the sciences, this text will take them on a transformative journey.
DACMAR is a FAST BUSINESS GUIDE for newbie biotech entrepreneurs. GIVE ME 5 MINUTES: If you know nothing about modern biotech business lingo, grab this book and read the LEARNING BOXES. In 5 minutes, you’ll know DACMAR – you’ll know enough! If you WANT TO BUILD a SUCCESSFUL biotech start-up that delivers new medicines, read the DACMAR ADVANTAGE. Each chapter will take you 5 minutes. By the time you are finished in less than 2 hours, you’ll have the DACMAR ADVANTGE. DACMAR is the basic business building blocks for a biotech start-up. At the conclusion of the DACMAR ADVANTAGE, I take you to the WIN! Your start-up flourishes: you are acquired or go public. Through your entrepreneurial genius, millions of patients will be saved. The DACMAR ADVANTAGE will help you win. ABOUT THE AUTHOR James A. Levine - Dr. Levine, President Fondation Ipsen, has three decades of experience in the healthcare sector principally at Mayo Clinic. For the last 6 years he has been President of Fondation Ipsen, an international science foundation focused on biotech innovation in Rare Diseases. A physician and scientist, James has published more than 200 articles, six papers in Science and Nature plus articles in journals such as, the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet and JAMA. He has written four books published in 19 languages in 37 countries. His business training, focused on entrepreneurship, was from Harvard Business School. With a background in wearable technologies, data gathering and data analytics, and with more than 100 patents and trademarks, Levine helped found 35 companies. He was the Innovator of the Year in the state of Minnesota, the World Trade Fair and NASA. Under the Mayo Clinic NEAT Trademarks, Levine’s team delivered scalable health solutions to 72 US corporations. A great deal of James’ work focusses on biotech development, scalable health solutions and business opportunities in underserved regions in the United States, France and low/middle countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Afghanistan, Jamaica, Asia, Kenya and India. Consulting to the President of the United States, the US State Department, US Army and internationally, James in 2018 was awarded the President’s Medal for promoting social embeddedness. 300 million people live with rare diseases without effective cures. Sustainable solutions require the efficient use of capital to optimize biotechnology companies, maximize impact and minimize suffering.
Exploring the characteristics of 'champion' enterprises, this guidebook helps entrepreneurs develop professionally and grow their business. It charts the problems owner-managed firms are likely to encounter and suggests ways to anticipate and resolve them.
While Botswana's economic development has been extraordinary, little is known about how different social groups have adapted to the new economic opportunitites, This conmprehensive account studies a key group of the new entrepreneurs - the ranchers. It describes their changing lifestyles, their construction of personal and social space, and the way they have adapted to state-initiated political and economic change, showing through a sseries of case studies how ranching has grown from being the preserve of white settlers to include Botswana and other African farmers as well. The relationship between ranching and communal land tenure, and the effect of Botswana's Tribal Land Grazing Policy are analysed in detail, whle the careers of non-elites, the practice of bordermanship, labour relations and the management of multiple enterprises and risks are also covered.
The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948. Yet while much is known about the economic side of the Marshall Plan, the extensive film campaign that accompanied it has been largely overlooked until now. The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans is the first book to explore the use of the Marshall Plan films and, importantly, their distribution and reception across Europe. The study examines every available film – the 170 that remain from the 200 estimated to have been made – and looks at how they were designed to instil hope, argue the case for economic restructuring and persuade the Europeans of the superiority of the liberal-capitalist system. The book goes on to reason that the films served as a powerful weapon in the cultural Cold War, but that the European audiences were by no means passive victims of the US propaganda effort. Maria Fritsche discusses the Marshall Plan films in the context of countries across Western, Northern and Southern Europe, covering the majority of the 17 European countries that participated in the Plan in the process. The book incorporates 70 images and utilises a vast number of archival sources to explore the strategies the US adopted to sway the minds of the Europeans, the problems they encountered in the process and, not least, the varied responses of the European audiences. It is a vital study for any scholar or student keen to know more about postwar recovery in Europe, the legacy of the Second World War or America's relationship with Europe in the 20th century.
Winner of the 2018 Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association Children and Drug Safety traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century, a history that sits at the interface of the state, business, health care providers, parents, and children. This book illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance—many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population. Each chapter of Children and Drug Safety engages with major turning points in pediatric drug development; themes of children’s risk, rights, protection and the evolving context of childhood; child-rearing; and family life in ways freighted with nuances of race, class, and gender. Cynthia A. Connolly charts the numerous attempts by Congress, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and leading pediatric pharmacologists, scientists, clinicians, and parents to address a situation that all found untenable. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy--the site of Martin Luther
