In 2002, the fifth edition of this magnificent masterpiece (1999) was divided into five parts and translated into Chinese in the form of Timmons's "On Entrepreneurship" translation series. Tsinghua University, China Europe International Business School, Nankai University and other top domestic business schools all choose this book as the teaching material for entrepreneurship courses.
The sixth edition (2004) of the English original edition of Entrepreneurship refines the essence of the first five editions, and adds Professor spinelli, a heavyweight in the field of entrepreneurship management, as the second author, which adds fresh blood to the book and greatly updates and supplements its content. This Chinese translation also adds a translator with rich practical experience in entrepreneurship and enterprise management. Both translations are devoted to translation, and the translation is more accurate and smooth.
More detailed introduction and recommendation
Excerpted from Entrepreneurship, preface to the translator.
Jeffrey Timmons, Franklin Ou Lin Distinguished Entrepreneur Professor and Partner Program Director of Bai Sen Business School. Bachelor's degree from Colgate University and MBA from Harvard Business School. Doctor of business administration.
Since the late 1960s, the author has been a leader in entrepreneurship education and research in the United States. He is in his field of study. Innovative curriculum development and related entrepreneurship. New enterprise. The teaching of Enterprise Financing and Venture Capital is recognized as an authority all over the world. Baisen Business School is regarded as a global leader in entrepreneurship education. American News and World Report ranked Franklin Ou Lin Business School as the first in entrepreneurial ability in the past year, and Success magazine also ranked Baisen Business School as the first in entrepreneurial ability. In the Financial Times 20001annual global entrepreneurship ranking, Baisen Business School is also among the best.
Professor Timmons is a bit unorthodox academically. He has resigned twice and won two professorships. 1994 resigned as a professor at Harvard Business School awarded by 1989, and returned to Bai Sen Business School to start teaching at 1982. From 65438 to 0995, he became the first Franklin Ou Lin honorary professor of entrepreneurship. Before that, he was the first scholar to win the Paul Prize. Babson was chairman for two years, and then he became the first person to win the chairmanship of Frederick Hamilton, engaged in the research of free enterprise. 65438-0989, resigned as the above-mentioned professor and accepted the appointment of Harvard Business School. As early as 1973, he opened the first undergraduate major in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in the United States at Northeastern University, and later founded and introduced the EMBA(MBA Executive Class) course, which has been preserved to this day. Business Week 1995 Business Graduate School Guide rated Professor Timmons as "the best professor" and listed him as one of the top ten professors in Harvard Business School. Success magazine (1September 1995) called him "one of the two most powerful smart people in American entrepreneurship" in a special topic. Missy. Slaughter, former chairman of Kaufman Entrepreneurship Leadership Center of Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation, called him "the earliest educator engaged in entrepreneurship education in the United States". GloriaAppel, as the president of PRYDZ Entrepreneurship Research Association before her death in June, 20001,said: "He (Timmons) did more work than any other educator in the United States in promoting entrepreneurship education." 1995 All the teachers, students and friends of Pulitzer Association and Baisen Business School decided to establish and fund Professor Jeffrey Timmons in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Baisen Business School and this field.
1985, he designed and started the cooperation project of PRAIDZ-Baisen Business School, aiming at improving the teaching and scientific research level by organizing successful entrepreneurs and experienced teachers to teach together. This unique new initiative has created a mechanism that enables universities to attract and support entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship educators to participate in teaching. At present, there are about 250 colleges from the United States and 28 other countries. More than 750 entrepreneurial educators and entrepreneurs from this university participated in this project and became graduates of the Pulitzer-Bai Sen Business School cooperation project. Who's Who, the special issue of entrepreneurship research IN In magazine, called him "the sower of entrepreneurship education" and said that the project "has produced earth-shaking changes in the field of entrepreneurship education". This project won two national awards in 1995, and now it is also derived from the Pulitzer-Bai Sen project in Berkeley, and is developing continuously outside the United States. From 65438 to 0998, Dr. Timmons initiated Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Educators (LLEEP for short), which was sponsored by Kaufman Foundation and provided training practice for entrepreneurship educators by Praez-Baisen Project in Berkeley. With the help of SEE, the landmark activity of the Price-Baisen Business School cooperation project, LLEEP recruited a group of the best scholars as collaborators, who came from Stanford University. University of California at Berkeley. University of Colorado at Badil. University of Salax. Umass Network College and Rensse-laer Technical College.
In the past decades, Dr. Timmons has helped Baisen Business School to carry out several new activities, including Baisen-Kaufman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Kaufman Foundation /EL Challenge Award. Pulitzer Prize for Challenge. Business plan competition and CEO seminar. 1997 initiated the establishment of the first full scholarship for MBA students, with a special prize of $900,000, from the Pulitzer Institute for Entrepreneurship Research. Every year, a Pulitzer-Bai Sen Alumni Scholar is awarded to Gloria. Appel commemorates the scholar in memory of his long-term patron. Colleagues, friends. A: In addition to teaching, Professor Timmons also devoted his main energy to the joint projects and activities of Pritz-balrog Business School sponsored by Kaufman Foundation and balrog Business School, including new research and curriculum development. He played an outstanding leadership role in project development and teaching, and set up entrepreneurship courses in many ethnic universities in the United States to help Native Americans seek economic self-reliance and community development. 200 1 year1October, Professor Timmons was awarded by the Oklahoma legislature for his contribution in the field of entrepreneurship and was named as the entrepreneurship ambassador. At present, he is doing the same work for other minority communities, especially promoting entrepreneurship education programs in traditional black schools.
1999, as a special adviser to the American Entrepreneurship Committee. The climax of the Committee's work was the American seminar held in 20001year1month, which was organized by the John F. Kennedy School of Politics of Harvard University. The American Entrepreneurship Council was co-sponsored by Kaufman Center for Entrepreneurship Leadership, and Professor Timmons was the chairman of this meeting.
As a researcher and author with a wide range of knowledge, he has written nine books, including this textbook published for the first time in 1974. Entrepreneurship was published by in. Success and The Wall Street Journal were rated as entrepreneurial classics, which have been translated into Japanese and are now being translated into Chinese. In 1996 and 1998, in. List the first edition of this book as one of the eight books that entrepreneurs must read. His book Venture Capital at the Crossroads (1992), co-authored with William Bagriff, a colleague of Bai Sen Business School, is regarded as the foundation work of venture capital industry, and this book has also been translated into Japanese. Prior to this, Professor Timmons wrote Entrepreneurial Thinking (1989). Business opportunities of new enterprises (1990). Planning and financing of new enterprises (1990). Insider guide to small business resources (1982). The Encyclopedia of Small Business Resources (1984) has also written some chapters for other books, including the MBA Entrepreneurship Book (1994 and 1997). He has written more than 100 articles and papers, which have been published in many important journals such as Harvard Business Review and Enterprise Risk Magazine, and has written a large number of teaching cases. On 1995, he cooperated with Sam Taylor to develop a new series of videos about entrepreneurship. Sam Taylor is one of the producers of "Pursuing Excellence" series on PBS, and the other producer is tom peters. Professor Timmons also appeared IN the media in the United States and many other countries, and was published by IN. Success. Wall Street Journal. New york Times. Los Angeles Times. Business weekly. Professional women. Money and USA Today has been quoted many times, Rolling Stone (1997). Boston globe (1997). Success (1994) interviewed his characters exclusively.
Dr. Timmons received such praise: "He can put what he taught into practice." One of his former students is now a software entrepreneur. When Rolling Stone interviewed the entrepreneur, it described his feelings about Professor Timmons' teaching very succinctly: "I went to his class and couldn't wait to rush into the classroom at once. When I get to the classroom, I never want to leave again! " For over 30 years, Dr. Timmons has been exploring the world of entrepreneurs. He is an investor in several private enterprises and investment funds. Directors and/or consultants, including directors and/or consultants in Boston. New Hampshire. Elularone, the first mobile phone company in Maine. Boston communications group. BI consulting company. SpetrumEquityln-vestors。 Internet securities company. )。 HaseapitalPartnem and so on. 199 1, the founding member of the board of directors of Kaufman Entrepreneurship Leadership Center of Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation, served as the president of Kaufman Center and special adviser to the board of directors from 1996. He founded the Kaufman partnership project in this center and served as the provost. The purpose of this pioneering cooperation project is to create important value for aspiring venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, just as the honorary title of RhodesSholar and WhiteHouseFellowsPrograms create value for political and public enterprises. In 200 1 year, Dr. Timmons became a member of the newly established Dean's Committee of Franklin Ou Lin Institute of Technology. In 1994 and 1996, he also served as Ernst &; Young) national assessor of the annual entrepreneur award.
Dr. Timmons received his MBA and MBA from Harvard Business School, where he participated in the study of the National Defense Education Act. He graduated from Colgate University with a bachelor's degree and became a scholar of Scott Pepper Foundation. From 199 1 to 2000, he was a director of Colgate University. He and his wife Sarah, who have been married for 36 years, live on a 70-acre private farm in New Hampshire. In winter, they spend it on the Brie Island plantation near Savannah, Georgia. He is keen on outdoor sports: fishing. Playing golf and hunting with his two hounds, Anne and Britz. He is one of the founders of the Green Passage Project in Wampak Heights, New Hampshire. He actively participated in the activities of Henry Forklift Foundation and Wildlife Conservation Trust in New Hampshire, and was the director and director of the New England Wood Owners Association. He is a member of many other wildlife and nature organizations, including the hill protection organization. Harris center. Nature conservation organization. Trout & Quelun Co., Ltd., Atlantic Salmon Alliance and grouse Association.