COURSES

Undergraduate Level Courses
MSOM 304 Entrepreneurship: Starting & Managing a New Enterprise
Exposes students to the behaviors required to successfully launch a new business, tools to identify and evaluate opportunities, and the issues critical to a new firm. These issues include organizational structure, effective marketing strategy, operational logistics, legal issues, financial projections, financing options, and available support structures.

MGMT 451 New Venture Creation
Explains the process of conceptualizing and creating a new venture. Using central concepts of innovation, strategic opportunities, and globalization, students learn to evaluate new venture opportunities and consider the external environment's impact. Students gain greater understanding of entrepreneurial concepts by developing business plans that address critical issues, including management composition and structure, effective business and functional strategies, operational logistics, legal issues, financial projections, and financing options.

Graduate Level Courses
MBA 705 Venture Capital and Private Finance
Considers market microstructure of venture capital and private finance: costs and benefits from employing private financing, interaction between the financiers and entrepreneurs, financial analysis of potential ventures, and investor exit strategies.

MBA 711 Entrepreneurship
Considers the fundamental aspects of entrepreneurship and the process of new venture creation. This course draws on a broad range of business disciplines including management, marketing, finance, and accounting to develop evaluation and execution skills.

MBA 714 Managing Growth of Small Businesses
Focuses on unique challenges faced by small and entrepreneurial firms that seek long-term growth. This course builds on concepts and knowledge of creating a start-up company, and introduces processes and strategies required to become a significant player in an industry segment. It is designed for students interested in understanding opportunities and problems in their own businesses, employment in small or entrepreneurial businesses, or exploring corporate entrepreneurship within large firms.

MBA 719 Entrepreneurship Laboratory
Permits MBA students to work with the entrepreneurial community to gain first-hand knowledge of the process of soliciting second-stage funding for new businesses, evaluating applications for second-stage funding, consulting for entities seeking funding, and negotiations for obtaining second-stage funding.

MBA 752 Ideas to Companies
Focuses on discovery and development of an achievable business concept. The centerpiece of the course is development of the formal business plan and associated presentation materials. Students will be assigned to teams, and must hypothesize a new business, research and test their hypothesis, and develop a comprehensive written business plan.