To provide DSEF Fellows and other Academic Partners with relevant teaching content to use in their classrooms, the Foundation has produced two 10-minute videos designed to educate students about business trends such as big data analytics and the sharing economy, and to advance their understanding of the direct selling channel. Tools such as these allow DSEF to reach thousands of students beyond those who attend our campus programs and other events.

Earlier this year, DSEF held a Campus Event on Micro-Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy at Belmont University, featuring Lori Bush, retired President and CEO of Rodan + Fields, and Will Reinhart of the America Action Forum. Through the video teaching tool based on the day’s discussion, students will learn how direct selling is an effective, modern, go-to-market strategy, as well as a mainstream form of micro-entrepreneurship.

In June at DSA’s Annual Meeting, DSEF featured a general session panel, “What Big Data Can Do for You.” The new classroom video based on the panel discussion — and featuring Dr. Liz Davis, University of San Francisco; John Parker, Amway; Bill Schmarzo, EMC; Frank Perkins, Saleforce.com; and Brian Hopkins, Forrester Research — will help students understand how successful companies turn data into actionable business strategies.

 

What Big Data
Can Do for You

Micro-Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy