Entrepreneurship Courses (for First-Year students): Spring Semester

Entrepreneurial Thinking (ENTRE 758) Q4 (also offered Second Year Q1)
(G. Fairchild)

This course is about learning to think and act entrepreneurially in order to create new value in the world through new products, new solutions, new ventures, new business units, new distribution channels, new firms, new business models, new technologies, and business transformation. The emphasis will be on the art and science of “creating something new from little.” The orientation in the course will be to challenge students to think about how they can create, finance, and build or change a productive business organization with commonly available resources (e.g., intelligence, insight, energy, initiative, and personal relationships). Students will learn to use this orientation wherever new venture creation may occur, namely, through the actions of an independent entrepreneur or in a large, established firm.

Course objectives:

• Enable students to develop an attitude, mind-set, and skills that are crucial for becoming a creative business person. These skills and mind-set are applicable both in the context of starting a new firm and in starting new ventures in a large, established company.