TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Real Origin of the Franchise
In this video lesson, Sir Harold Evans describes the remarkable story of Martha Matilda Harper, a beauty salon owner who invented franchising, one of the most successful business models today. [5:49]
Scholastic
Scholastic: Serving Up Economics
This lesson plan describes how students can use a restaurant setting to study the basic concepts of economics, while they learn business, math, and even get to eat.
Other
Entrepreneur Network: Business Recordkeeping: Source Documents
This page describes the importance of source documents and how to handle them.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash believed in women's talents. Read about the development of her successful cosmetics company and see a hedcut from an exhibit of these dot drawings in the Wall Street Journal.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Levi Strauss
Investigate the biography of entrepreneur Levi Strauss including his early life, starting a business in San Francisco, making blue jeans, and fun facts on this site.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Steve Jobs
Students learn about the biography of entrepreneur Steve Jobs including early life, starting Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak, NeXT, Pixar, the iPod, the iPhone, and fun facts on this site.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Walt Disney
Kids learn about the biography of entrepreneur Walt Disney including early life, work as an artist, beginning animation, movies and television, theme parks, and fun facts on this site.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Widows in Israel
In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Maggie L. Walker
Maggie Lena Walker was an entrepreneur and the first female bank president in the United States. Find out about the personal life and many impressive career firsts of this African American teacher and businesswoman.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Captains of Industry: Second Industrial Revolution
This tutorial looks at the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States and the most famous and successful industrial entrepreneurs of that time. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor's Handbook: Patents
This site has everything you would want to know regarding United States patents is included in this handbook for the "Aspiring entrepreneur."
Other
Junior Achievement Resource Room
The preeminent national organization that offers students educational experiences in business and economics, Junior Achievement, has a great list of web resources for students and educators. Explore career preparation, college...
Other
The Mint: Be Your Own Boss
Website helps students learn about money management and making sound financial decisions. Students can take this quiz designed for teens to find out if they have what it takes to own their own business.
Other
Hershey History
Online collections of historically significant documents relating to Milton Hershey, the business and the town.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place in Africa. Here in a Ghanan village, young Kojo cannot afford to go to school after the death of his father. His resourceful...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Sarah Breedlove Walker
An illiterate, impoverished daughter of freed slaves built the largest black-owned business in America, made a fortune, and touched thousands with her philanthropy.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Fred Smith
Acting on observations he'd made in a college economics paper, Smith built a unique hub-and-spoke delivery network to keep pace with the developing computer industry. In 1973, Smith launched Federal Express with his own money and...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Martha Matilda Harper
A former servant developed an influential beauty regimen -- and innovated business practices when she created the first franchise system of independently owned salons in the U.S. and Europe.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Martha Stewart
Kids learn about the biography of entrepreneur Martha Stewart including her early life and careers, writing books, fun facts, and building a brand and billion dollar business.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: John D. Rockefeller
Kids learn about the biography of entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller including his early life, building standard oil, business monopoly, fun facts, and charitable giving on this website.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Andrew Carnegie
Kids learn about the biography of entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie including his early life, building his steel empire, business philosophy, libraries, fun facts, and charitable giving on this site.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Sam Walton
A webpage containing information about the biography of entrepreneur Sam Walton including early life, first retail store, starting Walmart, building a business, and fun facts.
A&E Television
Biography: Paul Allen
Biography.com offers a three-page biography of entrepreneur and investor Paul Allen.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Milton Hershey
A biography of entrepreneur Milton Hershey including early life, starting a candy business, making chocolate, and building a business and town on this site.