The purpose of course is to introduce entrepreneurial principles used in identification and assessment of economically viable business opportunities. Graduate level requirements include engagement in an advanced level of critical classroom dialogue, a feasibility study requiring gathering and assessing background data on a social and/or economic problem with a potential entrepreneurial solution to the identified problem.

Units: 3

This class is designed to strengthen your customer management skills and further your understanding of a set of powerful ideas about how to manage customers for superior business performance. You will be exposed to a set of well established and effective strategies to create, deliver and sustain superior customer value, as well as some of the most novel and cutting edge ideas in customer management. At the conclusion of the course, you will have acquired both formal frameworks and fresh ideas about how to acquire and retain customers.

Units: 3

Value maximization; simulation of value distribution; sources of venture capital; timing of initial public offering; new venture ownership structuring.

Units: 3

Role of entrepreneurship and innovation in economic growth. Development of new venture idea and assessment of financial requirements and potential.

Units: 3

In this course, you will focus your business and entrepreneurial skills on contemporary technology challenges and opportunities in the form of ventures.

Units: 3

This course will focus on topics of fundamental macroeconomics, accounting, management and marketing.

Units: 3

In our rapidly changing global environment, companies cannot be static ... they must continually adjust, adapt, and redefine themselves to remain competitive. Innovative and entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors are necessary for firms of all sizes to prosper and flourish. The challenges include creating an environment for new ideas within companies, and encouraging employees to act on these ideas. This course examines Corporate Entrepreneurship as a broad concept that includes the generation, development, and implementation of new ideas, behaviors, products, services, systems, plans, and programs within established organizations. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper and higher overall scrutiny of work.

Units: 3

In this course you will focus your business and entrepreneurial skills on contemporary healthcare challenges and opportunities.  Through a series of readings, case studies, discussions, guest speakers, and assignments, you will explore a number of contemporary healthcare problems and identify entrepreneurial solutions to these problems. Graduate-level requirements include completion of one additional assignment. Each graduate student will help facilitate one of the classes by gathering additional readings, preparing a brief presentation, preparing a set of discussion questions, or developing an in-class activity.

Units: 3

Recent surveys indicate that innovation is at the top of the agenda for  more than three-quarters  of executives; at the same time, nearly as many report failing to meet their own hopes and expectations for their innovation initiatives. This graduate level course will focus in on what is increasingly understood to be a primary reason for the gap between aspirations and outcomes for innovation and entrepreneurship: the leadership and organization of the innovative process. As companies shift their thinking about innovation from being a fundamentally technological or mechanistic endeavor to one that is more organic, creative, and human-centered, so have they shifted their management concerns. Among them: What role does innovation play in overall strategy and where does it fit into strategic plans? What kind of leadership (or leaders) is required to develop an innovative culture? What are the implications for organizational structure and process? Is organizational innovations needed before companies can achieve their innovation objectives? Through readings, cases, exercises, and projects, we will explore these and related questions on the intangible contributors to innovative success for both existing and new firms.

Units: 3

This course is organized as an introduction to entrepreneurial principles for those seeking to develop an owner-operated, life-style business. The primary audience for this course is for those interested in starting a business in the traditional small business business mode with the aim to achieve high growth. Participants will learn how to start, expand and grow their business with an emphasis on learning practical skills including effective leadership, negotiation and managing conflict with confidence. Effective recruitment practices and how to make your business indispensable to your customers are among key real world skills taught. At the end of the course, student groups will compete to sell a similar assigned product in the marketplace and reflect on their experience.

Units: 3

This course examines socially centered entrepreneurship under a global umbrella. Our global interdependence teaches us to look for opportunities anywhere. We realize more than ever that no person, team, company or country is an island. Our personal lives and the lives of the local organizations around us depend on issues at the international level, and the trend will likely continue.

Units: 3

Focusing your business and entrepreneurial skills on social and/or environmental problem solving. Graduate-level requirements include the experience to pitch the social entrepreneurship venture they have developed. Also the graduate students will have the experience to facilitate classes.

Units: 3