Entrepreneurship minor
Minor
The Entrepreneurship minor provides students with the knowledge and skills to start and operate their own business, work for growth-oriented and innovative firms, work in family businesses, and bring entrepreneurial perspectives to their chosen fields. A minor in Entrepreneurship offers a broad range of transferable skills and the skills to develop a strong competence in critical thinking, strategic management, and hands on business experience. Students in any major can benefit from having a minor in Entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship drives global innovation and economic growth. This course exposes business students to the study of entrepreneurship and the venture-creation process. Topics include analyzing new business opportunities, developing business propositions, new venture planning and financing, marketing activities, financial controls, and other topics relevant to the entrepreneurial process. Students interact with faculty, local entrepreneurs, and small business owners/managers.
This course focuses on the challenges and opportunities of managing a growing entrepreneurial venture. Using practical management techniques, students address the management of rapidly growing entrepreneurial firms. Through a variety of learning activities, including case studies, reading, and visiting entrepreneurs, students examine companies, often family-run, during dynamic transition. The course specifically addresses the challenges faced by companies in various stages of growth and the exceptional challenges of rapid growth.