Creating effective business plans for entirely new ventures, or creating new venture business plans within corporations, government, nonprofit, or social organizations is central to entrepreneurship, innovation, and potential highimpact results. This is a practical, experiential course that focuses on the process of creating a new venture business plan. The course also covers growing and scaling the venture. Students create their own new venture business plan as an integral part of the course.

Entrepreneurship is a driving and dynamic force in developed, developing, and less developed counties around the world. This course explores the complex considerations in developing, starting, and growing an entrepreneurship enterprise in multiple contexts and cultures. The utilization of alternative entrepreneurship and micro ventures strategies are also explored. Prerequisite: MGMT-660.

Entrepreneurship new venture startup implementation depends on critical operational, financial, and legal strategies and execution. This course focuses on these important components of an entrepreneurial business plan implementation and running the business or nonprofit new venture and their practical implementation.

Entrepreneurship is a critical component in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and social entrepreneurs can be a dynamic change agent for society and this course provides an in-depth exposure to starting a new nonprofit as well as creating new ventures within an existing nonprofit organization. The course focuses on entrepreneurship thinking and the process for successful new ventures within a nonprofit context. In addition, entrepreneurships’ actual and potential contribution to changing lives, improving the environment in which we live, and its contribution to overall national, regional, and local economic and social development are also included.

Topics vary by section. Rotating topics may include current managerial challenges, institutional change, interorganizational issues. Repeatable for credit with different topic.

This course covers modern management theory and practice for planning, organizing, leading, and deploying human capital to maximize organizational and personal success. Students learn about the individual in context, including motivation, human capital planning, performance management, organizational culture, decision making and leadership of self and others.

Entrepreneurship is a critical component in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and social entrepreneurs can be a dynamic change agent for society and this course provides an in-depth exposure to starting a new nonprofit as well as creating new ventures within an existing nonprofit organization. The course focuses on entrepreneurship thinking and the process for successful new ventures within a nonprofit context. In addition, entrepreneurships’ actual and potential contribution to changing lives, improving the environment in which we live, and its contribution to overall national, regional, and local economic and social development are also included

Topics vary by section. Rotating specialized tax topics or analysis of current tax legislation. Topics include taxation of banks, insurance companies, security transactions, tax exempt organizations, cooperatives, natural resources, or accounting periods and methods. Repeatable for credit with different topic

The purpose and operations of security markets; investment instruments and their characteristics; introduction to portfolio and capital market theory; theory of valuation, bonds, and the term structure of interest rates; options, commodity and financial futures; investment companies; and international investments

Speaking and presenting will help students in every phase of their careers from the first interview when they have to respond to questions, to the middle years when they have to represent their companies on the telephone or in face to face interactions with clients, to later in their careers when they have to make speeches in front of hundreds of people. The purpose of this course is to help the student sharpen presentation skills, both informal and formal. It will also teach techniques to build self-confidence when placed in front of a crowd.

This foundational course is designed to introduce students to digital marketing principles and tools, and how to leverage these tools in order to engage customers and create growth business growth.