ENT Entrepreneurial (ENT)

This course is designed to introduce students to the entrepreneurial process from conception to birth of a new venture. Students will examine elements in the entrepreneurial process--personal, sociological, and environmental--that give birth to a new enterprise. Critical factors for starting a new enterprise such as alternative career prospects, family, friends, role models, the state of the economy and the availability of resources will be explored. Students will be introduced to practical tools they can use to further their careers in business, both in entrepreneurship and in more traditional company environments. This course simulates the experiences that entrepreneurs undergo in conceiving, launching, and operating new businesses. The courses enables students to evaluate an entrepreneurial career for themselves. In doing so, it provides want- to-be entrepreneurs with a framework for selecting, funding, and starting their own new ventures. CTENTR001, effective Spring 2016.

This course is designed for students who want to manage growing companies in an increasingly professional manner while still maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit that brought the company to its current growth position and for students who want to manage larger companies to emphasize innovation and the management of opportunities rather than to concentrate on the efficient management of ongoing operations. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to measure economic performance and obtain information for management decision-making, management control systems for innovative companies, short-and long-run planning in owner-managed businesses, and entrepreneurship in managing growing companies.

This course examines how entrepreneurs create and manage emerging ventures in other countries and create and manage start-up emerging ventures which are global in at least one important aspect. The case analyses and classroom discussions sraw on and integrate multidisiplinary concepts, skills,and insights. - marketing, operations, finance, control, decision-making, leadership, ethics, governance, negotiations - all in the service of starting and managing entrepreneurial ventures. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to identify and assess business models for international start-ups, venture valuation, sources of financing, deal structuring, cross-cultural issues in entrepreneurship, creating strategic alliances, managing/ leading a small multinational organization, international acquisitions, managing entrepreneurial ventures in situations of financial distress and under changing contexts, and managing global expansions of ventures.