Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana

Maybe you’re writing your thesis for a master’s degree in fine arts and you suddenly get an idea to start a poetry-slam cafe. Or you’re in law school and want to hang up a shingle….

Hellgate High School’s DECA students opened the school’s first store in 10 years Wednesday in what had been an old storage closed, and, in an even earlier life, a ticket booth.

he history of enterprise isn’t really about eureka moments. It’s mainly about people putting things together that were never put together before,” Evans said.

Billings Career Center students Sean Kober, James Newman, Michael Armstrong, Weston Smith and their High School Business Challenge (HSBC) instructor Harvey Langager will be recognized for their first place finish in the spring 2005 HSBC…

"Innovation is as important to us as oil is to the Middle East,"

Welding students’ older college counterparts say that the welding program at the COT has opened a world of opportunity for them. Some are already working — demand for proficient welders is high — while others wish to pursue further education.

When Dustin Diefenderfer, Jesse Woodson and Bobby Bachman finished presenting their Montana State University College of Business Management 475 project, there was a "stunned silence," said Nicholas Bourdeau, Treasurer of Montana Mediation Association (MtMA).

Roughly 150 high school juniors and seniors will assemble on the Utah State University campus July 31 through Aug. 6 for Utah Business Week. The intensive educational program is designed to teach the students about…

An entrepreneur is not a person, but a personality, the personality living inside of each and every person on the face of the earth, the personality who dreams.

Given the entrepreneurial energy we have in the United States, active policies are of relatively limited importance. The focus has been and should continue to be on ensuring that we have the proper passive policies in place to allow our entrepreneurial spirit to thrive. Entrepreneurship cannot be planned or managed centrally. Rather, we should have in place basic institutions to facilitate business transactions, along with minimal interference in the actual operation of businesses. In writing our regulations, we should carefully weigh the costs and benefits while keeping in mind that excessive interference can squash or misdirect our greatest advantage.