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Pioneer of entrepreneurship (and former ENT Interest Group chair) Bob Brockhaus passed away last week. His SLU obituary is posted here and his general one is here (which mentions his preferred charities). He was one of the first 20 people in history to teach entrepreneurship, founder of one of the first 20 entrepreneurship centers in the world and head of nearly every entrepreneurship organization (ICSB, USASBE, SBIDA, etc.). Locally he was active in Boy Scouts and even a local alderman. At a time in the 1970's when business schools were generally actively against entrepreneurship (at a time when "the proper focus of a business school should be the Fortune 500") he was a tireless proponent of a rigorous discipline of entrepreneurship and helped set the model  the Entrepreneurship Division lives by today. He was always ready to help and a friend to all. Do something nice for someone else in entrepreneurship in Bob's name. He'd like that.

-  Jerome Katz, Robert H. Brockhaus Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, Chaifetz School of Business, Saint Louis University

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Jerome Katz
Brockhaus Chair in Entrepreneurship
Saint Louis University
jerome.katz@slu.edu
314.302.0641
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Bob was a pioneer -- a person who ventured into uncharted waters, who forged a path when one did not exist.  All of us stand on the shoulders of people like Bob, Arnie Cooper, Jeff Timmons, Karl Vesper and others.  We should use the sad loss of Bob to celebrate the pioneers, and the foundation they built for the knowledge base and dynamic discipline we have today. The first entrepreneurship course I taught, way back in 1983 when there was not much in the way of textbooks on entrepreneurship or structures for how to teach it, became a course of ideas and issues and debates based on the writings of Bob and others. 

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Michael Morris
Professor
University of Notre Dame
Gainesville FL
+15746319880
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2024 02:00
From: Norris Krueger
Subject: Bob Brockhaus 1940-2024

"Do something nice for someone else in entrepreneurship in Bob's name. He'd like that."

So true. Bob WAS a prince - always a smile and a supportive word (and the occasional much-needed-nudge!)

Not just the slayer of ENT's first sacred cow :)

I love Jerry's idea -- to pay it forward. Will you join me? (Anything that I might do for you?)

Norris

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