Entrepreneurship

Graduate Certificate

This class will strengthen your customer management skills and further your understanding of powerful ideas about managing customers for superior business performance. You will be exposed to well-established and practical strategies to create, deliver, and sustain superior customer value and some of the most novel and cutting-edge ideas in customer management.

This graduate-level course will focus on what is increasingly understood to be a primary reason for the gap between aspirations and outcomes for innovation and entrepreneurship: the leadership and organization of the innovative process. Through readings, cases, exercises, and projects, we will explore these and related questions on the intangible contributors to innovative success for existing and new firms in manufacturing, services, and nonprofits.

This course examines Corporate Entrepreneurship as a broad concept that includes the generation, development, and implementation of new ideas, behaviors, products, services, systems, plans, and programs within established organizations. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper and higher overall scrutiny of work.

Learn value maximization, simulation of value distribution, sources of venture capital, timing of initial public offering, and new venture ownership structuring.

In this course, you will focus your business and entrepreneurial skills on contemporary technology challenges and opportunities in the form of ventures.

This class will focus on topics of fundamental macroeconomics, accounting, management, and marketing.

This course is organized to introduce entrepreneurial principles for those seeking to develop an owner-operated lifestyle business. The primary audience for this course is those interested in starting a business in the traditional small-business mode to achieve high growth. Participants will learn how to start, expand, and grow their businesses with an emphasis on learning practical skills, including effective leadership, negotiation, and managing conflict with confidence.

Examine socially centered entrepreneurship under a global umbrella. Our global interdependence teaches us to look for opportunities anywhere. We realize more than ever that no person, team, company, or country is an island. Our personal lives and the lives of the local organizations around us depend on issues at the international level, and the trend will likely continue.

Learn to focus your business and entrepreneurial skills on social and/or environmental problem-solving. Graduate-level requirements include experience in pitching the social entrepreneurship venture they have developed. Also, the graduate students will have the experience to facilitate classes.

 This course may include special topics in entrepreneurship, such as the marketing of innovations and early-stage technologies, the entrepreneurial dimensions of colleges and universities, intellectual property protection and management, and other potential new topics. Grading scales will be determined topic-by-topic but include at least one comprehensive exam or one comprehensive term paper/research project.