Peter Harrington

Great teaching: Entrepreneurship, enterprise & business | Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs

Can you Teach Entrepreneurship?
ByPeter Harrington November 27, 2014September 18, 2018

The question “Can you teach entrepreneurship?” has received much attention over the last decade. People who teach entrepreneurship have an important job to do. However, much like the relationship between a ‘product’ and its life sustaining ‘market’, more consideration needs to be given to how people learn/engage with this subject. For me, academia stills over-emphases…

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The listening skill pill win £500! (competition now closed)
ByPeter Harrington October 23, 2014September 18, 2018

It intrigues me that I’ve never found a course focusing on effective listening. Whilst we know listening is one of the most important skills to acquire, many of us also recognise our inability to listen well…

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Cappadocia Ballooning
ByPeter Harrington August 31, 2014October 15, 2026

Waking to the sound of an alarm shouldn’t be part of any holiday. But this morning, the family is Cappadocia ballooning. It’s 4am. In 20 minutes, a minibus will collect us from our stunning cave hotel. In little over an hour, and before the sun has risen, we will be climbing towards Turkey’s rich and loyal blue…

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Social Media Business Ethics
ByPeter Harrington July 30, 2014September 18, 2018

Reaching for my camera (rather than my daughter’s foot) as Megan falls from a Chicago skyscraper, suggests an untruth is perhaps at play…

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Making a living on the road
ByPeter Harrington June 22, 2014September 18, 2018

Recent visits to the Far East as well as African continent have demonstrated that hitchhiking remains a popular means of transport. But whilst dozens of people with outstretched thumbs lined my route from Uhmslanga to Durban, it was the mothers with babes on their backs, risking life and limb in the car-frenzied city of Jakarta,…

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Great teaching: Entrepreneurship, enterprise & business | SimVenture: Global impact of a business simulation

Why use Business Simulations?
ByPeter Harrington June 22, 2014May 29, 2020

Countless reports have been published (including this by Lord Young) stating good entrepreneurship education requires experiential, hands-on learning. So you might think it would be easy to answer the question: Why use business simulations? Engaging learners so they make decisions, deal with risk and consequences as well as solve problems creates a rich and dynamic…

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Film treasures all entrepreneurs should find
ByPeter Harrington May 29, 2014September 18, 2018

By accident, I recently discovered a powerful and uplifting film about global social entrepreneurship. Concerned I’d never heard about this brilliantly-made & influential production (See 1. Who Cares?), I decided to search the web to uncover other film treasures all entrepreneurs should find. What I found may stagger you…

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Crowdfunding Challenges Banks
ByPeter Harrington April 27, 2014September 26, 2018

Following a short interview at Cumbria’s ‘Wasdale Head Inn‘ I secured my first-ever paid job in 1984 as a kitchen porter. Fresh out of school, my new hotel home was at the end of a long valley, 8 miles from the nearest shop and another 3 to the nearest town. And that’s where I found…

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