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Posted in Acton School of Business, Life of Meaning on Feb 17th, 2010
Acton has a few important events and deadlines quickly approaching.
Early application deadline for the 2010 – 2011 Acton program is Wednesday, February 24. The final application deadline is March 31. Start your application early to have all the requirements and materials finished!
Spring Life of Meaning Course registration deadline is Friday, February 26. For more information, [...]
Posted in Class of 2010 on Feb 8th, 2010
Listen to students from the Acton MBA Class of 2010 talk about their third month in the program. After sharing a bit of their backgrounds and why they came to Acton, the students discuss their greatest challenges, what it’s like learning from real entrepreneurs, and the kinds of real-world lessons they have experienced so far.
Posted in About Acton, Acton School of Business, Class of 2010 on Oct 27th, 2009
“I’m not just learning here. You come to Acton and you’re changed.”
Posted in Acton E-Teachers, Awards on Sep 18th, 2009
Congratulations to Ben Allen, CEO of Acton Publishing, for being nominated for the 2009 Austin Business Journal Tech Innovator Awards! The Tech Innovator Awards celebrate the top tech innovators in Central Texas and their accomplishments.
Ben is also a 2007 alumnus and current practitioner at Acton. Acton Publishing creates the curriculum for Acton and online courses and the online sim games.
Winners will be [...]
Posted in Acton School of Business on Sep 16th, 2009
On Monday, Brilliant Magazine featured the Acton School of Business on its web site. The article, entitled “The Business of People,” highlighted the Acton difference.
The article emphasizes how Acton deviates from traditional business schools around the country. These points include Acton’s entrepreneur teachers, the unique Life of Meaning course and the heavy, but healthy, competitive environment [...]
Posted in Acton School of Business, Class of 2010 on Sep 2nd, 2009
As mentioned before, our students are our customers here at Acton and their feedback is invaluable to us. Thus, students fill out detailed, online surveys at the end of each week, grading everything from sessions to lecturers to required readings.
Last week, the incoming class went through Boot Camp, a rigorous week that brings all the [...]
Posted in Acton School of Business, Children's Business Fair, Sim Games on Aug 20th, 2009
With Acton’s 3rd annual Children’s Business Fair just around the corner, our entrepreneurial business school hosted a Children’s Business Fair Boot Camp at the Acton campus yesterday. The event was a huge success! More than 40 young entrepreneurs, aged 6 to 13, spent the afternoon playing Acton’s award-winning simulation games and brainstorming with successful Austin [...]
Posted in Acton E-Teachers, Entrepreneurship & Business on Aug 16th, 2009
You want your company to stand out against all of the other companies that are just like yours. What do you do? Ed Perry comments on how to garner more word-of-mouth marketing.
Sunday morning I sat in The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on South Lamar in Austin, Texas while visiting with someone who was sitting in The [...]
Posted in Acton E-Teachers on Aug 14th, 2009
What is the secret to getting really, really good at something?
In his new book, The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle travels to “hot beds” of talent throughout the world; small places that produced very large numbers of talented people. And what did he discover? That talent isn’t born; it’s grown. The book removes the mystery that [...]
Posted in Job Search, Life of Meaning on Aug 6th, 2009
Do you feel as if you need to prove yourself to others? Read this post by Master Teacher Steven Tomlinson about why we shouldn’t fear failure.
In one of our many, tedious conversations about what I was going to do with my life, my mentor asked me: What do you need to prove? Who does [...]