Sloan becomes as borderless as the entrepreneurship class itself. It also examines the impact of Internet technologies on entrepreneurial opportunities. Eastern time, an hour entrepreneurs on every continent can manage. Before class, students log on to the subject's private Website to read materials related to that day's featured entrepreneur. During class, they converse with the entrepreneur via a speaker phone.
Discussion continues afterward on an electronic bulletin board.
Most Wednesday evenings, Entrepre-neurship without Borders resumes in a virtual classroom. At 9 p.m., students log on to an Internet chat room to talk with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists around the world, or with their professor. Through this creative use of distance learning, Simon Johnson's students develop a special understanding of the interaction between economies and entrepreneurship in ways that are virtually hands on.