Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship Case Studies
William D. Bygrave · 1997
58/100
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Real ventures, real financials, and a genuinely credentialed Babson author make this more useful than most casebooks — but it's a 1990s companion volume that leans hard on a parent text and predates the modern internet economy. Good for a classroom, not a general shelf.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing55
Originality45
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit80
Human-eye read40
Penny’s verdict58
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