Advancing business education through telling — and teaching — engaging business stories.
An imprint of Braun Ink, the Braun Collection is a suite of True Business Adventure Tales, comic book case studies, and CEO conversation cards that intimately acquaint a hybrid audience of business students, business professionals, and business enthusiasts with leaders across industries and geographies. Our action-packed tales go deep fast to uncover the lives, backgrounds, obstacles, and best and worst ideas of the decision-makers who have changed business and indeed capitalism.
For coaches and educators, our Braun Collection products include teaching notes, presentations, video shorts, and live video visits with authors and subjects of the books and comic books.
The Braun Collection is also a separate nonprofit organization set up by Braun Ink to fund Storyteaching®—the teaching of Braun Collection True Business Adventure Tales in MBA and undergraduate business programs. This storyteaching service is based on Braun Collection's firm belief that teaching great stories is the best way for students to learn.
Furthermore, the Braun Collection nonprofit raises funds to be able to tell the great business stories of nonexecutives, such as service workers, line workers, cashiers, and others.
Entrepreneur Lanham Napier leads public company Rackspace and creates thousands of tech-related jobs in San Antonio, Texas. When Microsoft, Amazon, and Google enter the industry, everything changes.
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Chemical salesmen John Haugh and Michael Shaughnessy innovate in the global plastics industry, financing the growth of their polymers company, ColorMatrix, by obsessively selling — and they call their simple plan "SALES FIRST!"
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Entrepreneur Linda Hall and her MinuteClinic team raise capital, grow and position the company, and develop the patient strategy it's known for today — but she wishes she had managed several relationships differently.
The story of Paul Schumacher, founder of America's largest on-your-lot custom homebuilder, Schumacher Homes — especially how the company survived the financial crisis of 2008–2010.
Charlie Braun, owner of a small Cleveland manufacturing business, faces a dilemma: should he pay a desperate employee's bail during a global pandemic?
Rebecca Boenigk takes her company public but finds operating as a small public company is inefficient. Should she fix the problems — or do a complex, costly go-private transaction?
BizBio® Conversation Cards are handsomely designed, informative trading cards for business enthusiasts — art, entertainment, and education all in one. Each card features six custom-created icons, fifty words of biographical text, and custom imagery about an iconic business leader.
Cards arrive in an attractive burlap bag and look great on a coffee table or work desk. Educators use BizBios in classrooms so students can appreciate the breadth of leadership in modern business.
- Starter Set (25 cards)
- Full Set (50 cards)
- Jumbo Set (75 cards)
- Theme — Minority & Underrepresented
- Theme — Immigrant & Foreign Business
- Theme — Crisis Management, Turnaround, Coronavirus
- Theme — Dealmaker & Restructurer
- Theme — Entrepreneur, Founder, Innovator
- Theme — Industrial, Agriculture, Utility, Conglomerate
- Theme — Services, Media, Entertainment, Travel
- Theme — Tech, Software, Biotech
- Theme — Retail, Food, Beverage, CPG
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