INTRODUCTION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

MHR 722

Describes activities and skills necessary to start and manage an enterprise. Includes decisions about domain, purchase versus start-up, preferred market, financing, legal form, staffing, organization structure, location, and legal requirements. Describes the entrepreneurial role in business initiation.

MHR 441

Designed for undergraduate students interested in learning about the fundamental issues related to starting and managing technology-based new ventures. Encourages students to consider how technology-based solutions can solve economic and socially oriented problems.

MHR 422

Focuses on the process of starting and growing a new venture. Develop and utilize a set of qualitative and quantitative skills that can be applied in this context. Topics include how to assess and quantify growth potential of an entrepreneurial opportunity, how investors value startups, and how startups are effectively managed. Acquire a set of cross-functional concepts in finance, law, marketing, and strategy.

MHR 321

Learn how to create a socially-engaged businesses and how to use entrepreneurial approaches to non-profit ventures. Activities include developing mission statements, assessing social impact, seeking funding from varied sources. Guest lecturers, cases, role playing. Grounded in management theory.

MHR 320

Develop capabilities to conceive of new ventures that create value and critically analyze the role of entrepreneurship in society. Activities include: Imagine/design new ventures, identify markets and funding sources, develop founding teams, do scholarly research on impact of entrepreneurship.