E-Clips Cornell’s Premiere Video Clip Collection Covering Everything you Need to Know in Business Get what you want and when you want it @ http://eclips.cornell.edu/

Highlights:      ‚ For use by educators, Students and entrepreneurs      ‚ Over 4000 clips based on 200+ interviews           • Diverse pool of "virtual guest speakers"           • Well-known names and "everyday heroes"           • Small and large businesses      ‚ Short, focused clips (30 sec. - 3 min.)      ‚ Transcripts available      ‚ Search titles, transcript or by themes      ‚ Download various video formats      ‚ Download pre-assembled introductory       Powerpoint slides with case notes included

The Collection

E-Clips provides business educators, students and entrepreneurs with real-world expert views on topics related to business, entrepreneurship and leadership.  Designed for use inside and outside the classroom, the collection is made of up thousands of individualized video clips created from in-depth video interviews with or presentations by entrepreneurs and other experts. Interviewees include startup and experienced entrepreneurs, business leaders (corporate and non-profit), venture capitalists, bankers, angel investors, and employees of startup companies. 

Entrepreneurship is not just for business majors anymore.  People with all kinds of gifts are involved in directing their own career paths and creating their own businesses.  Musicians, actors, designers, veterinarians, lawyers, scientists – all have career options with entrepreneurial dimensions.  The database provides role models from a wide variety of fields and disciplines and provides content that is relevant to business, entrepreneurship and leadership education well beyond the borders of the business school.  

Using the Collection in Teaching Entrepreneurship

E-Clips was created by Prof. Deborah Streeter, the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management, with students and entrepreneurship educators in mind.  Streeter’s original concept was to create a “virtual panel” of experts, to be used to stimulate discussion, illustrate concepts, and create a real-world feel in teaching entrepreneurship. The flexibility of having clips (as opposed to feature-length video) allows the instructor to intersperse the digital video material with the text-based or discussion-based exposition in the classroom.   The clips can be inserted into PowerPoint presentations and played (when appropriate) in combination and alternation with other conceptual material. Instructors can also make the video clips available on-line to students, using the pre-assigned themes or creating a themed collection specific to the course.

For an introductory period users can access clips for free.  To register as an “early user” contact Deborah Streeter at dhs4@cornell.ed.