On April 5th Atlas held a half day conference, “Improving Students’ Appreciation of Free-Market Thinking Through the Academy”, just prior to the APEE meeting in Guatemala.
The keynote speaker for this meeting was Jeff Sandefer, Professor and CO-Founder of Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. His speech was entitled, An Alternative Model for Educating Business Leaders.
In the coming days Atlas will be posting audio from each of the panel discussions.
Introduction
Jeff Sandefer lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a teacher.
As an entrepreneur he has founded a number of successful companies — his first at age 16. He recently sold Sandefer Capital Partners, an oil and gas investment firm that had several billion dollars in assets.
Business may be his day job, but Jeff’s passion is teaching. While at the University of Texas, students awarded Jeff with the school’s Outstanding Teacher fives times and he was selected by Business Week as one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States.
Six years ago Jeff and the group of successful businessmen who created UT’s entrepreneurship program left to start the Acton School of Business. The school’s grueling 100 hour a week program has won numerous awards, including having the Princeton Review- the gold standard of business school rankings- name Acton’s students the “most competitive” MBA’s in the nation, and rank its faculty in the top three in the nation - above Harvard, Stanford and Wharton- for the last four years in a row.
Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he served for over a decade on the school’s Visiting Committee. He is also a longtime director of National Review magazine and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Listen to Mr. Sandefer’s speech:
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