New breed of entrepreneurial profs teaches students to learn by doing
Forget the business-school lecture. These profs learn by doing and encourage their students to do the same.
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Rosemary Counter
Rosemary Counter is a Toronto-based writer and journalist whose reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest and many more. She’s currently writing columns at The Globe and Mail, Report on Business and Zoomer magazine. Find her at www.rosemarycounter.com.
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