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3.00 Credits
Explores the challenges and processes for harnessing technological innovation for corporate growth. Integrates innovation in four key dimensions: markets and users, technology (for both products and services), organization, and business models. Uses readings, cases, and exercises to teach students how firms from different industries accelerate corporate growth by internally generating new products and services and how to do this fast and efficiently by leveraging their skills, product technologies, and production processes into growth opportunities. Features a team-based applied project in corporate entrepreneurship. Offers students an opportunity to develop fully featured business plans using business planning tools from CBA G202. Focuses on growth through internal development, as opposed to mergers and acquisitions.
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3.00 Credits
Stresses the operating problems of managing small businesses. Case studies develop analytical approaches for appraising the risks and rewards of potential growth opportunities as well as operating problems. Problems range from locating, evaluating, marketing, and financing a small company to the survival and growth of more established businesses. Guest speakers and entrepreneurs provide pertinent business perspectives to in-class activities.
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3.00 Credits
overs the issues surrounding the creation of a new business in the service and retail sectors. Emphasizes issues relating to the start-up, growth, and operation of business ventures in these areas. Topics include developing a business plan for start-up, market positioning, services design, operations management, sales forecasting, cash flow management, and venture financing with a heavy emphasis on debt financing. Students are asked to develop business plans for services and retail ventures of their own choosing as the class project.
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3.00 Credits
Gives students the opportunity to build a complete business plan for new high-potential ventures. Covers all aspects of the planning process, from the point of view of both the prospective entrepreneur and the potential investor. Explores the demands of the entrepreneurial career through reading, self-assessment exercises, and group projects. Guest speakers from start-up companies, law firms, and venture capital firms provide a window on current experiences in the small-business world. Recommended for prospective entrepreneurs as well as others who may become involved with new ventures.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to provide students with an in-depth exposure to entrepreneurship in the social sector, a rapidly growing segment of the global economy. Uses the case method to expose students to leading entrepreneurs who have developed and implemented business models to solve social problems such as extreme poverty, disease, illiteracy, and economic and social dislocation. Focuses on uniquely creative and driven people who have dedicated their lives to making a difference in the lives of others through values-based entrepreneurship.
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3.00 Credits
Exposes students to the concept of venturing, including new business start-ups (entrepreneurship) and the development of new ventures within an existing corporation (intrapreneurship). Seeks to provide insights into the process, including how to identify and translate innovative ideas into results. Students examine opportunity assessment, the formation of venture teams, and how to best develop a business plan, including research and analysis and plan integration. Students also have an opportunity to develop and present a new venture proposal.
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3.00 Credits
Explores using innovation to build and create value in the larger global context. Examines some of the latest innovation practices: (1) to build and create value within emerging economies, (2) to facilitate social entrepreneurship, (3) to promote sustainable development, and (4) to build and create value at the bottom of the pyramid. Exposes students to what successful entrepreneurs must learn, to balance business demands with the larger need for innovative thinking. Stresses the application of successful practices to generate results. Topics include creating and sharing knowledge and intellectual property, exploiting systems and networks, redefining disruptive innovation, and the steps necessary to make innovation and entrepreneurship happen in a variety of global contexts. Real-life examples and case studies are used to illustrate successful practices.
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3.00 Credits
Offers an in-depth examination of selected issues and problems in entrepreneurship that are of current interest to faculty and students. Specific topics alternate depending on faculty availability and interest as well as student enrollment criteria.
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2.00 Credits
Provides the class with an opportunity to gain insight into the issues of starting a business, selling or buying a business, and expanding a business. Building on previous courses and the class's experience in Washington, D.C., with course MEC G290, each study group works toward the completion of a business plan.
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1.00 Credits
Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on chosen topics.
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