Lunch + Learn: Deborah Cohen (Chair of the History Department)

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Lunch + Learn: Deborah Cohen (Chair of the History Department)

The Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions presents Lunch & Learn.

By Kapnick Center for Business Institutions

Date and time

Thursday, April 20, 2023 · 12:30 - 1:30pm CDT

Location

Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions

2010 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208

About this event

The Kapnick Lunch & Learn is a casual lunchtime event for Northwestern undergraduate students. Come hang out with the Kapnick Center, eat lunch, mingle with classmates and enjoy conversation with our guest speaker!

Lunch & Learn is capped at 10 students.

Out of respect for our guests and your classmates, if you are unable to show up within the first 6 minutes of the start time, please refrain from signing up.

Deborah Cohen in the History Department will be teaching a lecture course (History 254) next fall on global entrepreneurship. She would like to hear from you about what sorts of topics and themes pique your interest. We will be holding a lunch meeting (with lunch) on April 20th at 12:30 to get your ideas about the course.

Here's a brief description of the new class:

This course sets out to answer two big questions: What can history tell us about the making of successful entrepreneurs? How has entrepreneurship shaped the modern world? We will consider how the quest for new products and new markets helped to transform societies, economies and environments from the 1780s through the 1950s. We will ask why and how entrepreneurs as various as Josiah Wedgwood, Madame C.J. Walker, Jamsetji Tata, and Aristotle Onassis exploited opportunities that other people either failed to see or failed to act on. Among the subjects we’ll discuss are the strengths and weaknesses of family firms, the search for capital and the dynamics of globalization and deglobalization.

Topics Covered:

  • Open discussion / Q&A

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Kapnick Center for Business Institutions

The Minor in Business Institutions offered by the Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions is designed to provide Northwestern undergraduates with a rigorous introduction to business and management fundamentals.  The minor is open to all Northwestern undergraduates regardless of major or home school. The minor allows them to build on the set of skills and knowledge they have acquired through other Northwestern coursework to prepare for employment in the business world.  It also allows students to connect their study of business and management fundamentals to broader areas of academic inquiry both by linking the study of principles of business and management to the social science scholarship that these principles are based on and by introducing students to social science and humanities scholarship on the cultural, political, philosophical, literary and social aspects of business institutions. Therefore, the minor is not meant to serve as narrowly conceived pre-professional training.  Instead the minor offers a broad multi-disciplinary perspective on a significant area of inquiry in 21st century society.   Students without extensive quantitative training are particularly encouraged to apply.  The minor is designed so that such students can acquire the necessary quantitative background by completing four basic prerequisite courses in mathematics, statistics and economics.

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