Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Learning to think like an entrepreneur isn’t just for people who want to start a business. Entrepreneurial skills benefit everyone. Whether you want to create a startup or innovate in a corporate setting, the Schulze School offers the graduate courses you’re looking for.
This brief introductory course is designed to help the general manager learn to identify and evaluate new opportunities, and understand how to transform innovations into profitable businesses. In this course, begin to develop key skills and knowledge necessary for applying the entrepreneurial process in a corporate context.
Learn to develop financial strategies for various types of businesses. Explore issues related to debt vs. equity financing, sources of financing, advanced financial projections, managing cash flow gap, determining business valuation and using equity in partner and employee compensation. As part of the course, you will create a financing presentation and negotiate financing with a lender or investor. Prerequisites: ACCT 601 and FINC 600
This course explores how to launch new ventures capable of sustained growth over time. Learn about the development of marketing, operating, and financing strategies to guide early stages of a startup, or in managing small and medium-sized businesses. Course curriculum is organized around the components of an effective business plan.
Social entrepreneurship is the practice of identifying, designing, starting and growing successful mission-driven ventures. These include both “non-profit” and for-profit enterprises designed to respond to a specific social need, as well as more traditional ventures working to incorporate ‘socially-responsible’ practices into their business models. The course provides an overview of the processes, challenges and demands of creating ventures that seek to integrate financial and social/environmental benchmarks of success.
This courses is for entrepreneurs, managers and consultants interested in creating and reinforcing entrepreneurial responses within established organizations. Learn how managers affect the nature and rate of innovation through organizational culture, structure, communication, reward and control systems. Course integrates theory and practice through readings, discussions, cases, field work and projects.
Learn to identify, develop and organize family resources for business ownership and for other family initiatives, such as philanthropy and community service. Family resources include family aptitudes, knowledge, experience, skills, identity and culture. Methods for organizing family initiatives include defining family mission, values, and goals. The course will also cover establishing guidelines/policies, and developing governance and decision-making structures, including boards of directors or advisors. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Associate Dean
Professor in Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship