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Faculty ContactS: Donna Kelly, Heidi Neck, Joel Shulman, Tim Habbershon
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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*
•EPS 3521 Venture Growth Strategies <credits>
And
Choose 2 of the following:
•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 3525 Social Enterprise Management <4 credits>
•EPS 3526 Value Selling for the Entrepreneur <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 4570 Franchising, Licensing, and Distributorships <4 credits> (Inactive)
•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>
Courses suggested but not required:
•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.
•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.
•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 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.
•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 3525 Management Communications <4 credits>
Effective management communications are essential to discovering creative solutions to business problems.
•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
