STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION

MHR 716

How startups and business accelerators create and diffuse innovation. Topics covered include the basic economics of startups and business accelerators, the development of acceleration platforms, the accelerator model of innovation sourcing and selection, and fostering mindsets of innovation.

MHR 723

Integrative approach to strategic management, including strategy formulation/implementation at business unit, corporate levels. Cases, discussion, lecture, simulation are used to communicate concepts. Emphasizes development of unique tools for analysis of companies and industries, application of knowledge to business problems.

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 741

Designed for graduate 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 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.