Course Descriptions

GM 4403-A3 Global Enterprise

Course Overview
This course focuses on the many aspects of creating and growing a global venture. The concepts of going to market, competitive sustainability and building a company to last are discussed along with the aspects and characteristics of global entrepreneurs and the global entrepreneurship process. The concepts of creativity, innovation and opportunity analysis are discussed in both an individual and corporate setting as are global ethics, citizenship and intrapreneurship (corporate venturing).

GF 4420-A3 Growing An Enterpreneurial Business

Course Overview
This course is an overview and foundation course in entrepreneurship. The course content will be delivered in a variety of methods: traditional lectures on entrepreneurial topics, e-learning and web-based entrepreneurial education content, cases in international entrepreneurship, guest lectures by practitioners, consultants and experienced entrepreneurs, as well as topical, contemporary readings about entrepreneurship. Topics covered will be: what it takes to be an entrepreneur; creating entrepreneurial strategies in large, complex organizations (intrapreneurship); social entrepreneurship; innovation and creativity as competitive strategy; family enterprise; and franchising. The term project is the development of a feasibility study for a new venture.

GF 4430-A3 Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies - Summerim

Course Overview
This course focuses on entrepreneurship and new venture creation in transition economies. It will focus on doing business and business opportunities in Hungary and Slovenia exemplifying doing business in transition economies. Students will have seminars from faculty members at the Budapest University of Economics and the University of Ljubljana, executives and managers of business organizations from various industrial sectors, government officials of the two countries, and capital providers in each country. Company visits and cultural activities will also occur.

GF 5421-A3 Enterpreneurhsip - Valuation of the Private Firm

Course Overview
This is a course for those considering the evaluation and possible acquisition of their own business at some point in their careers. Emphasis is placed on those areas in which the entrepreneur can exhibit significant control. The course consists of lectures, mini-cases, presentations by guest business brokers and entrepreneurs, and a major project - the Evaluation of a Business Opportunity (EBO), followed by student presentations. Lectures cover the various methods of valuation: organizational entities, qualitative evaluation, ratio analysis, comparables, multiples, intra- and inter-industry rules-of-thumb, cash flows, forecasting, pro-formas, Net Present Value, Schilt Model, Gordon Growth Model, and start-ups vs. buy-outs.

GF 5422-A3 Entrepreneurship – The Global Business Plan

Course Overview
This course views entrepreneurship from the perspective of the entrepreneur who wishes to start up a new venture. This course is focused on the development of a business plan as well as providing the basic fundamentals about the challenges and opportunities of the entrepreneur. The course relies on the thoughtful, and enriching, use of guest lecturers whose specialized areas of expertise will add a useful dimension to the course. These practitioners will bring applied perspectives on a variety of new venture elements. Practicing entrepreneurs, legal consultants, venture capitalists and others will present applied knowledge on topics such as: Venture Capital and Angel financing, Intellectual Property, Patents, Copyright and Trademark Legal Issues for the New Venture, Presentation Strategies for Entrepreneurs Presenting Business Plans. Qualifies for TIE II.

GF 5424-A3 Managing the Global Family-Owned Business

Course Overview
This course explores and analyzes family business continuity challenges and best management, family and governance practices for the effective leadership of family-owned businesses. Since the focus is on pragmatic, action-oriented, management, governance and family/business leadership skills, the course will be taught primarily through live and written cases, discussions, lectures and a study/consultation experience with a family business.

GF 5450-A3 Entrepreneurial CEO - Winterim

Course Overview
The Entrepreneurial CEO/Founder Seminar provides an understanding of, and appreciation for, the development and implementation of entrepreneurial strategies and policy development from the perspective of the CEO/Founder of the entrepreneurial enterprise. In this course, students will follow, from a “been there-done that” point of view, the “story” behind entrepreneurial ventures, and importantly, learn first hand both success and failure factors faced by the entrepreneur/CEO along the way. In addition to the obvious benefit of these shared experiences as told by the CEO/Founders, the seminar provides an intimate setting for interaction and personalization of the introductions the student will have with these entrepreneurial leaders.

EMBA Course Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship

Course Overview
The role of entrepreneurship and corporate venture (intrapreneurship) in an economy has been well documented and is of interest to businesspeople, politicians, and university professors and students. Creating and growing a new venture inside or outside the corporation is a task that few individuals are able to accomplish, even though many profess the desire. This course is based on an understanding of all the functional areas of business and applies the tools and analytical techniques of these functional areas to the new venture creation process with a global perspective.

Course Objectives
The primary goal of this course is to provide an understanding of entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial process, and corporate venturing (intrapreneurship) in a global setting. This course will broaden a basic understanding obtained in the functional areas as they apply to new venture creation and growth. Specifically, the course will:

  • Develop an understanding of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process.
  • Integrate functional area material as it applies to new venture creation and growth.
  • Develop an understanding of the role and activities of entrepreneurship in a global setting.
  • Provide an opportunity to evaluate your own entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial tendencies and ability to create a new venture/business plan.
  • Understand the aspects of corporate venturing (intrapreneurship).
  • Understand all aspects of developing and submitting a business plan.