ENTREPRENEURIAL GROWTH STRATEGIES

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 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 724

Examines growth strategies that extend the firm's scope into new businesses and geographies. Most firms operate in multiple products, markets, and geographic arenas. Explore complementarities (and costs) of operating in a portfolio of strategic arenas defined by products, customers, and global markets. This includes the analysis of strategic choices to vertically integrate (e.g., internal suppliers) as well as maintaining external alliance partners.

MHR 415

Covers innovation and entrepreneurship in an existing corporate environment. Adopt the perspective of decision-makers who must evaluate the potential of new technologies, decide on their adoption, and establish their implementation in the current firm's activities and products. Discuss how established firms can build an internal environment such that all employees adopt entrepreneurial behaviors and generate their own technological or business model innovations.

MHR 423

Synthesis of material from accounting, economics, finance, operations management, human resources, law, marketing, and technology to consider problems in corporate and business-level strategy; top management problems; discussion of actual business cases.