Teachers & Entrepreneurs on Acton’s Princeton Review Ranking

Reflecting on “Most Competitive Students in the US” Just a few weeks ago, right after The Princeton Review ranked Acton students as the “most competitive MBA students in the US”, we spoke to Acton alumni and students about what that competition means to them. According to The Princeton Review,...

How Loyal Will You Be?

In our most recent contribution to the ongoing series “Notes From Acton” published on Forbes.com, we discus the limits of loyalty and offers a strategy that can help you determine exactly what that term means to you and to your business. Practice Placing Limits On Loyalty How will you...

Flying the Good Flight with Master Teacher Jack Long

Aviation Aid Missions to Haiti, Mexico and Belize Take Jack’s Plane to “Highest and Best Use.” Next week Master Teacher Jack Long, Chairman and Co-founder of SchoolAdmin, will take to the skies. Once again he’s volunteering his plane and piloting skills in what’s become an ongoing series of aviation missions that he’s...

Your Path to Fraud, Saving Money, and Print-To-Own Nikes

Entrepreneurship in the News: April 2012 In our seemingly never-ending newsfeeds, it’s easy to miss some great stories on entrepreneurship. Here are a few of our favorites over the last month.  Falling Into Fraud… Was it character or context? And what does it mean for you? On April 17, NPR’s Planet...

Jeff Sandefer’s State Policy Network Speech

On November 3, 2009, Acton co-founder and Master Teacher Jeff Sandefer spoke at the 2009 State Policy Network 17th Annual Meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. Introduction Jeff Sandefer is an entrepreneur, a teacher and a passionate defender of freedom. As an entrepreneur, he founded his first company at age 16;...

What Acton Teachers Are Reading This Summer

In addition to teaching and running companies, Acton teachers are life-long learners who are constantly looking for opportunities and resources to hone their own business skills. As a result, Acton teachers are avid readers. Here are some of the books that most influenced them. All of these, and more,...

How To Fix Business Schools

In response to a recent debate on the Harvard Business Review website about how traditional MBA programs contributed to current economic crisis, Master Teacher Jeff Sandefer had the following comments: Most business schools don’t care much about students or their journeys through life. Until this changes, ancillary efforts like...