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Virginia Tech Libraries and the Pamplin College of Business are pleased to announce the publication of Fundamentals of Business, a full color, 440+ page free online textbook for Virginia Tech’s Foundations of Business course. This Virginia Tech course averages 14 sections with over 700 students in Fall semesters. The textbook is an open educational resource and may be customized and redistributed non-commercially with attribution (CC BY NC SA 3.0) TABLE OF CONTENTS includes Teamwork in Business, Chapter 1: The Foundations of Business, Chapter 2: Economics and Business, Chapter 3: Ethics and Social Responsibility, Chapter 4: Business in a Global Environment, Chapter 5: Forms of Business Ownership, Chapter 6: Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business, Chapter 7: Management and Leadership, Chapter...

'The Boundless Management textbook is a college-level, introductory textbook that covers the real-world subject of Management. Boundless works with subject matter experts to select the best open educational resources available on the web, review the content for quality, and create introductory, college-level textbooks designed to meet the study needs of university students. This textbook covers: Management -- Principles of Management, Management Levels and Types, Core Requirements of Successful Managers, Additional Roles and Skills of Managers, Current Challenges in Management, Entrepreneurship Organizational Structure -- Defining Organization, Components of an Organization, Common Structures, Factors to Consider in Organization Design, Trends in Organization Organizational Theory -- Why...

Networking Minds for Open Innovation, Solving Complex Problems (video), When you unleash the power of diverse points of view, you can build new solutions, outcomes and even companies, says Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer Amy Wilkinson, who unpacks the toolbox for networking minds, from online prizes to gamification, in this Stanford Graduate School of Business video published Mar 1, 2019, Amy Wilkinson, CEO & Founder of @CorpIngenuity (domain: ingenuitycorp.com), author of The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs #CreatorsCode -- @WSJ columnist -- #Entrepreneurship @StanfordBiz -- her website: amywilkinson.com

In the Venture Capital Game, student entrepeneur teams raise money from venture capitalists and invest money in marketing, R&D, and capacity. Depending on the assignment, the venture capitalists may be other student teams or they may be automated. The entrepeneurs' objectives is to maximize founders' value of their firm. Financial statements are continually updated throughout the game.