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Faculty Contacts: Brad George, Erik Noyes, Joel Shulman
*Faculty contacts serve as "advisors" to those students who have an interest in the given concentration.
You should feel free to contact these faculty with questions.
The Entrepreneurship Concentration focuses on opportunity, recognition, assessment and realization. Entrepreneurship students will be able to holistically apply the management skills of traditional business disciplines to the recognition and shaping of entrepreneurial opportunities, and to the development of business models that will make use of those opportunities in ways that create value. The skills learned through an Entrepreneurship Concentration are vital for the success of any business ¡V large or small, public or private, corporate or not-for-profit, local or global. While the Entrepreneurship Concentration will give a broad skill-set for business, it will also provide highly customized paths for success in very specific business systems including new ventures, franchises, corporate ventures, socially responsible companies, and family controlled enterprises.
Required Course:
•EPS 3501, EPS 3502, or EPS 3503 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures (or ACE), 4 credits
And
Choose 1 of the following:
•EPS 3511 Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Business Plan, 4 credits *OR*
•EPS 3520 Managing a Growing Business <4 credits> *OR*
And
Choose 2 of the following:
•3505 Great Entrepreneurial Wealth: Creation, Preservation and Destruction
•EPS 3511 Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Business Plan (if not used as a required course above)
•EPS 3515 Family Business Management, 4 credits
•EPS 3520 Managing a Growing Business (if not used as a required course above)
•EPS 3521 Venture Growth Strategies (if not used as a required course above)
•EPS 3522 Entrepreneurship in Latin America, 4 credits
•EPS 3523 Environmental Entrepreneurship, 4 credits
•EPS 3527 Social Entrepreneurship by Design, 4 credits (may be taken as co-req to EPS 3501)
•EPS 3530 Living the Entrepreneurial Experience, 4 credits
•EPS 3540 Raising Money: VCs, Angels and Incubators, 4 credits
•EPS 3545 Family as Entrepreneur, 4 credits
•EPS 3550 Corporate Entrepreneurship, 4 credits
•EPS 3572 Entrepreneurship in Asia, 4 credits
•EPS 3576 Family Enterprises, 4 credits
•EPS 3577 Real Time Case Study, 4 credits
•EPS 3579 The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Challenge, 4 credits
(PLEASE NOTE: EPS 1210: The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Challenge <4 credits> will NOT satisfy the concentration.)
•EPS 3580 Marketing for Entrepreneurs, 4 credits
•EPS 3581 Family as Entrepreneur, 4 credits
•EPS 3591 Creating an Enterprising Culture in Your Organization, 2 credits
•EPS 3610 The Observational Entrepreneur: From Obstacle to Opportunity, 4 credits
•MIS 3515 Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship: Assessing Opportunities and Viability of Hi-Tech Startups or Products, 4 credits
•MKT3526: Value Selling for the Entrepreneur (formerly EPS3526), 4 credits
Courses suggested but not required:
•LAW 3500 Commercial Law, 4 credits
This course follows a small business from formation through financing, acquisition to IPO ¡V investigating the Uniform Commercial Code as it relates to sales, commercial-paper-secured transactions, and bankruptcy; fundamentals of personal, intellectual, and real property; estates and trusts; banking; insurance; and leases, mergers, and acquisitions.
•MKT 3500 Marketing Communications, 4 credits
This course examines the nature and role of communications in marketing, focusing on the goals and uses of advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing, and personal selling in achieving the communications objectives of marketing.
•MOB 3525 Management Communications, 4 credits
Effective management communications are essential to discovering creative solutions to business problems.
•MOB 3530 Managing Contemporary Ethical Issues, 4 credits
The course objective is to develop effective analysis and problem-solving abilities ¡V essential skills for budding entrepreneurs.
MKT 3560 Marketing and Developing New Products, 4 credits
This course introduces the students to some of the critical, integrative issues involved in the development and marketing of new products and services ¡V beginning with a market study, and then working all the way through to the product's profitable transition to market maturity.
•MOB 3571 Accomplishing Strategy, 4 credits
This course helps managers and entrepreneurs build the future of their business ¡V focusing on the strategy processes that produce outcomes, the initiatives that shape organizations, and the vectors that create the future.
•MOB 3580 Negotiations, 4 credits
This course explores the many ways that individuals think about and practice conflict resolution, including interpersonal, global, and cross-cultural interactions
•ECN 3615 Money, Banking and the Economy, 4 credits
For anyone in business, it is important to understand the influence that the banking system has upon interest rates, economic growth, and price and employment stability.
•ECN 3635 Technological Entrepreneurship and the Market Economy, 4 credits
Anyone going into business, whether as a budding entrepreneur or working for someone else, must be aware of the importance and influences of technological changes ¡V this course explores technology as a factor of economic growth, automation, the work force, and industrial adaptation.
