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.
Entrepreneurial Law
Credit Hours: 2
This course will provide the entrepreneur with a working knowledge of certain essential substantive areas of the law and the ability to work with and use lawyers effectively. The focus will be on the practical legal considerations in forming and sustaining an entrepreneurial enterprise, including entity organization, securities law, operational liabilities, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property law.
Product Design & Development
Credit Hours: 2
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
Social Entrepreneurship
Credit Hours: 1
The course will challenge students to look beyond traditional business practices by using entrepreneurial principles to create a 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 well-being of the population.
Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Credit Hours: 1
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.
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.
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.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Credit Hours: 2
To lead ventures in new or established organizations, cultivating entrepreneurial leadership is essential. This requires leaders to expand their worldviews and continually learn to better lead themselves and others. Entrepreneurial leadership involves a mentality of coordinating resources by collaboratively turning problems into opportunities. Entrepreneurial leaders value character, relationships, curiosity, communication, action, and the processes by which impactful outcomes are achieved.
Innovation and Change
Credit Hours: 2
The primary purpose of the course is to develop an understanding of innovation and change management skills and processes (by focusing on the interrelated concepts of Innovation, Change, & New Value Creation) and applying this knowledge to fostering the creation of new value. Students will also be exposed to real-world entrepreneurial ecosystems, which are designed to enable innovation and entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial Resources
Credit Hours: 1
A central facet of the entrepreneurial process is the attainment and management of key resources. The focus of this course is to offer a practical exploration of key resources available to entrepreneurs. Examples include angels and angel groups, venture capital, crowdfunding, accelerators/incubators, and grant funding, among others
Special Topics/Seminar
Credit Hours: 1-3
Special topics or seminar course for content not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. May include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.
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.
