Paper Airplane Entrepreneurs

Mays Business School

For this unusual lesson at Mays Business School, Management Clinical Associate Professor Richard Lester tasked the students in his graduate-level foundations of entrepreneurship class with the team creation of an aircraft that met specific criteria: it must use the same number of sheets of paper as team members, and carry $1 in coins. Each team decided the weight of the paper, design of the craft, and the combination of coins to equal $1. Once the prototypes were developed, each team delivered…