Online Business Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate 

Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Credit Hours: 2
Innovation & Entrepreneurship offers MBA candidates the opportunity to understand how starting your own business can alter your life's path. The course offers an overview of the concepts and tools of entrepreneurship, involving 1) finding or creating opportunities, 2) critical success factors in the creation of new ventures, and 3) the significance of entrepreneurship for economic development.

Strategic New Venture Development
Credit Hours: 2
This class provides hands-on learning on what it's like to start a company. Our goal is to create an entrepreneurial experience for you with all the pressures and demands of the real world in an early-stage startup. The class is designed to provide the experience of how to work as a team and turn an idea into a company.

Strategic Communication
Credit Hours: 2
Strategic Communication challenges students to master writing, listening, presentation, and interpersonal skills to lead in business environments. Students will develop strategies to promote engagement and loyalty with internal and external stakeholders. Emphasis is placed on credibility management, audience analysis, research, revision, and rehearsal to equip students for professional success.

Business Ethics/Legal
Credit Hours: 2
Review of the American legal process and ethical frameworks for gauging business decisions.

Organizational Behavior
Credit Hours: 2
Concepts and theories of organizational behavior and human resources management for MBAs.

Planning and Operations Management
Credit Hours: 2
In this course, we will discuss advanced concepts of operations planning, operations functions, current operations management practices, analytical techniques related to operations management problems, and applying these concepts and techniques in practice.

Financial Accounting
Credit Hours: 2
Students will learn to construct and analyze financial statements of for-profit corporate enterprises. The basic accounting model including financial statement recording and preparation will be covered. A major emphasis will be placed on using financial statements for decision making by investors, creditors, and other users. Basic ratio analysis and valuation concepts will be introduced.

Managerial Accounting
Credit Hours: 2
This course emphasizes the use of accounting information for internal planning and control. Introduces students to types of managerial information used to effectively and efficiently run businesses. Covers basic issues in costing (activity based and product); generation and interpretation of information for planning and strategic decision-making (pricing, make-or-buy analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis); production and use of information related to performance measurement.

Strategic Management
Credit Hours: 2
Examines management decisions and actions to improve an organization's competitiveness in global business environments. Uses a variety of pedagogies to integrate strategies, and students will develop skills to formulate, implement, and evaluate organizational strategies that play across the energy industry in rapidly changing environments.

Financial Statement Analysis
Credit Hours: 2
This course will cover financial statements of publicly traded companies, income statements, balance sheets, related disclosures, income tax reporting, accounts receivable, stockholders' equity transactions, non-GAAP financial metrics, and forecasted financial statements for company valuation.

Digital Marketing
Credit Hours: 2
This course provides the practical knowledge and insights required to establish objectives and strategies, properly select the digital marketing platforms to engage consumers, monitor and measure the results of these efforts. Learn how to manage, analyze a successful digital marketing presence for an organization, techniques for gaining internal/external influences to achieve organizational goals that benefit society as a whole.

Omnichannel Marketing Strategy
Credit Hours: 2
Students design and execute seamless customer experiences across all marketing channels, coordinating messaging, timing, and personalization using AI-powered strategy and automation. The course covers customer experience optimization, brand consistency management, and local/regional adaptation. Students create unified, personalized customer journeys driving engagement and conversion.

AI in Marketing Research
Credit Hours: 2
Students learn contemporary marketing research methodologies integrating artificial intelligence with traditional practices. Students design, execute, and analyze research projects while critically evaluating AI-generated insights. The curriculum emphasizes ethical considerations, automated research processes, hybrid methodologies, synthetic data generation, and real-time analytics for strategic application.

Management Information Systems
Credit Hours: 2
This course examines the role of information technology, and its management, in supporting an organization's (internally- and externally-focused) operations and strategies. Particular attention is given to issues associated with the funding and building of business and technology architectures to enable efficient, effective, and adaptable operational, tactical and strategic actions.

Social Entrepreneurship
Credit Hours: 1
The course will challenge students to look beyond traditional business practices by using entrepreneurial principles to create public good. The design of the course assumes that entrepreneurs are powerful agents of social and economic change who, if properly harnessed, can drive a sustainable economy and environment as well as improve the equity, health, and wellbeing of the population.

Corporate Entrepreneurship
Credit Hours: 2
Corporate Entrepreneurship is about understanding how and why some firms can maintain their entrepreneurial spirit, competitiveness, and growth, whereas others cannot. It is about creating work environments where innovation is the norm, where employees are encouraged to work entrepreneurially, where leadership is supportive (not controlling), and where firms are organized to take advantage of opportunities.

Economics of Innovation
Credit Hours: 2
This is a graduate-level course on economics of innovation. The ultimate learning objective of this course is to improve students' analytical skills and critical thinking in topics that relate to the key determinants of innovative activities in modern economies and the implications of innovation for growth and development.

Entrepreneurship Law
Credit Hours: 2
This course will provide the entrepreneur with a working knowledge of essential substantive areas of the law and the ability to work with lawyers effectively. The focus will be on the practical legal considerations in forming and sustaining an entrepreneurial enterprise, including entity organization; sources of funding; securities laws; employment benefits; operational liabilities; financing; mergers and acquisitions; and intellectual property.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Credit Hours: 2
Sustainable entrepreneurship uses the tools of entrepreneurship to address environmental challenges in for-profit and nonprofit contexts. The course will cover concepts such as systems thinking, life cycle assessments, and climate change as sources of opportunities for entrepreneurs. Understanding the underlying principles allows for improving the environment while maintaining financial viability.

Product Design & Development
Credit Hours: 2
Graduate Standing and Departmental Permission. The focus of Product Design and Development is integration of the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the firm in creating a new product. It is expected that each student will prepare for and attend all of the class sessions and enhance class discussions. Participation in a team project is central to this course.

Capitalizing the New Venture
Credit Hours: 2
This course will cover various aspects of financing entrepreneurial ventures. Topics will include methods of financing, financials, techniques for valuing new businesses and financial structure. Funding sources examined will include commercial banks, small business investment companies SBIC, Business Angels, IPO, Series A & B & C financing, acquisitions, LBO, and venture capital companies. These processes are often referred to as sourcing, diligence and valuation. Concepts are illustrated through Harvard Business School, Babson College, and Stanford Cases, supplemented by notes and reading.

Entrepreneurial Growth Strategies
Credit Hours: 2
Focuses on growth processes and systems, attracting the right people, managing cash-flow, shareholder decision-making; financial and market-driven options for long-run competitiveness, organizational structures, and management team issues; strategic planning from a resource-based perspective; transition planning for the corporate entity, family dynamics and communication issues; and leadership empowerment.