Congratulations to Robin Weekley Bruce, Acton Scholar 2010, as a recipient of a Texas Business Hall of Fame scholarship!
Robin, along with 18 other outstanding students, will be accepting a $10,000 scholarship on Nov. 8, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio. Recipients come from higher education institutions across Texas. She also was one of the [...]

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Congratulations to our 2009-2010 awards recipients!
Thanks to everyone who made Acton’s 2009-2010 school year such a stellar year. Five people particularly stood out:
This year’s Case Teacher of the Year was awarded to

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Acton receives a special honor thanks to our students.
The Acton School of Business has been given the honor of making The Princeton Review’s second annual “Student Opinions Honors for Business Schools” list. Acton is 1 of the 15 graduate schools in the General Management category. Other categories include Accounting, Finance, Global Management, Marketing and Operations.
The [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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In a recent interview with Jon Aleckson of Web Courseworks, Clark Aldrich further discusses Acton and its growing list of simulation games developed to teach the key tools and skills every entrepreneur needs to create a successful business. Listen to the interview and watch Clark take you through “Robo Rush: Can You Make a Profit [...]

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The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading interactive media awards competition, recently announced its 2009 award winners.
Both sim games that the Acton Foundation entered, Robo-Rush! and Galactic Zappers, won bronze awards in the “best video game” category.
“The fact that our learning games are wining awards in video game and entertainment categories is extremely encouraging.  It further [...]

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In a recent interview, Clark Aldrich, one of the country’s leading experts on eLearning and simulation games, praised Acton and our recently developed, award-winning Sim Games for Entrepreneurs.
He said he was impressed for seven reasons:
First, to understand Acton, you have to realize that they are one of the hottest business schools for Entrepreneurship.  This [...]

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The pricing simulation game that Acton built in late 2008 has been recognized with a recent award.  The 15th Annual Communicator Awards recognized Price Point in their Interactive Gaming category.
The Communicator Awards honors creative excellence for communications professionals.  We received the Award of Distinction, which we are quite happy to receive.
For more on the awards, [...]

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