Louis A. Weil Jr. Professor of Management at Purdue University.
Colleges create courses to meet the needs of the market.
And right now, there is a growing interest in entrepreneurship and small business development. And that translates into related courses at business schools all over the country. Cooper recently shared his findings at a national conference. Reasons range from wanting to do the kind of work they love and not having to work for someone else, to wanting a faster rate of financial and professional growth than traditional employment in a large firm would allow. A National Federation of Independent Business survey states that more than 4.5 million new businesses were started in 1995.