Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

In this introductory course you will learn a deliberate process of opportunity recognition. You will learn how to generate ideas that fit within your and your team's mindset, as well as your knowledge, skills and abilities intended to improve the likelihood of success. Once your opportunity is identified, you will determine its level of feasibility from the conceptual stage, industry and competitive analysis, through legal and financial risk areas, leading to a a "go or no go" decision. Topics include the individual and team mindset, identifying, growing and seizing opportunities, the founder and the team, and growth strategies. Financial topics include verifying the cost structure, making credible assumptions, identifying financial needs and sources, and preparing forecast financial statements, leading to a final presentation pitching the feasibility of your opportunity.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Corporate entrepreneurship refers to alternative approaches that existing firms use to innovatively generate new products, new services, new businesses and new business models. This course emphasizes the cultivation of each student's ability to evaluate innovations and business models for development in a corporate setting.It emphasizes various kinds of internal corporate ventures and multiple "external" collaborative approaches that include corporate venture capital investments, licensing and different types of alliances and formal joint ventures. Special emphasis will be placed on skills needed to promote and manage corporate entrepreneurship, including opportunity recognition, selling an idea, turning ideas into action, developing metrics for venture success and strategies for aligning corporate entrepreneurial projects with company strategies and growth opportunities and managing the conflicts that may arise between existing businesses and corporate entrepreneurial ventures. Students will also†learn to†identify the elements of an organization's culture, structure and reward and control systems that either inhibit or support the corporate entrepreneurship, and analyze how corporate entrepreneurial activities relate to a company's ability to drive innovation throughout the organization.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Social entrepreneurship is about applying innovative financial and operational solutions to ameliorating intractable social problems such as health care, education, poverty, climate change and human rights. This course will not only introduce you to the issues and challenges faced by social entrepreneurs the world over, but will also focus on the various business models adopted by social enterprises. The class will be case-based (2 books) with two short exams, one additional book to read, and an out of class project (individual or group--your choice).

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

MBA 650

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Create a viable business plan that will determine the potential of your opportunity to your audience of management, employees, investors, financial institutions, and other potential stakeholders. In this course, you will explore your opportunity deeper in order to prepare and defend a business plan that addresses the opportunity and its effect on a startup or existing organization, all leading to risk-reward analyses that will determine the amount of capital/funding you will need and how you will finance your opportunity.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Corporations place high importance on innovation and new product development for competitiveness and profitability. Since many companies are operating in a global environment, there‚?s a need to find ways to harness the talent of people at multiple locations. This course is designed to teach global innovation and new product development using ‚?virtual team and connectivity‚ techniques involving multiple locations/countries, while equipping students with the necessary knowledge, expertise and capabilities towards this goal. This course may also be conducted with Suffolk Law School students.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Small businesses are confronted with situations that may have a profound impact on the success and failure of the entity. Too often, small business founders and owners do not have the macro-level understanding of the effect of their decision making process, and that of their management team and employees. Today, small business comprise more than half of all employment and are the growth engine of the next eceonomy. In this case-driven course, you will understand the various aspects of business with a focus on established small businesses and the associated challenges of success and failure. This course will cover the challenges associated with startups, growing and turnaround situations. You will learn how to identify problems and develop solutions that confront small businesses through case analysis, presentation, and assessment where you will have the opportunity to analyze a situation as manage, owner, investor, or other stakeholders.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Over the past decade, the world of business and the environment has exploded. Beginning as an engineering-driven movement among a handful of companies during the 1980s, many firms have learned that improved environmental performance can save money and create competitive advantage. Much of the focus over the last 30 years has been on larger businesses. But now the big businesses are encouraging their small and mid-sized enterprises vendors and partners to pay attention to these concerns also. Consequently, the "greening" of Small Business is of utmost importance as many small businesses are a part of the supply chains of larger companies. And improving their performance can strengthen the business relationships of all parties by becoming cleaner, greener and sustainable businesses. This course will cover all aspects of green and sustainable business from innovation to new products to greening of the supply chain. It will cover how small and large businesses like General Electric, General Motors and others are paying attention to this very critical topic and taking actions which benefit the environment as well as their bottom lines and thus creating entrepreneurial opportunities in this growing market.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This advanced course is held in an experiential setting to help entrepreneurial-minded students, managers, etc. develop and practice their business skills working with real startups or small business under pro bono consulting arrangements. This course will be under the supervision of a faculty member, coach and advisor. Students will learn to assess client situations, develop alternatives and identify and defend solutions, at times within the client organization. This course is offered as a joint practicum with Suffolk Law School or as an independent study.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This course will provide an opportunity for Sawyer Business School students to work together with Suffolk Law School students to learn and integrate basic legal and business skills. Teams of graduate business and law students will analyze an outside small business or startup with client interviews, problem analysis, statement of work negotiation, project management, development of alternatives, recommendation of a strategic solution, including an implementation plan. The client will be an entrepreneur operating in a dynamic business and legal environment. By exposure to real life business client problems students will have the opportunity to operate as business advisors and lawyers. Students will work together throughout the semester on organizational, governance, strategic and related business and legal problems confronted by all business clients. Students will be assigned readings that will enable them to function effectively as members of an advisory team. Those teams, composed of a balance of business and law students, will work throughout the semester with the same client, culminating in managing a client project, as well as presenting a business and legal strategic plan. This course is co-taught by Sawyer Business School and Suffolk Law School faculty.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Social entrepreneurship is about applying innovative financial and operational solutions to ameliorating intractable social problems such as health care, education, poverty, climate change and human rights. This course will not only introduce you to the issues and challenges faced by social entrepreneurs the world over, but will also focus on the various business models adopted by social enterprises. The class will be case-based (2 books) with two short exams, one additional book to read, and an out of class project (individual or group--your choice).

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

In this introductory course you will learn a deliberate process of opportunity recognition. You will learn how to generate ideas that fit within your and your team's mindset, as well as your knowledge, skills and abilities intended to improve the likelihood of success. Once your opportunity is identified, you will determine its level of feasibility from the conceptual stage, industry and competitive analysis, through legal and financial risk areas, leading to a a "go or no go" decision. Topics include the individual and team mindset, identifying, growing and seizing opportunities, the founder and the team, and growth strategies. Financial topics include verifying the cost structure, making credible assumptions, identifying financial needs and sources, and preparing forecast financial statements, leading to a final presentation pitching the feasibility of your opportunity.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Corporate entrepreneurship refers to alternative approaches that existing firms use to innovatively generate new products, new services, new businesses and new business models. This course emphasizes the cultivation of each student's ability to evaluate innovations and business models for development in a corporate setting.It emphasizes various kinds of internal corporate ventures and multiple "external" collaborative approaches that include corporate venture capital investments, licensing and different types of alliances and formal joint ventures. Special emphasis will be placed on skills needed to promote and manage corporate entrepreneurship, including opportunity recognition, selling an idea, turning ideas into action, developing metrics for venture success and strategies for aligning corporate entrepreneurial projects with company strategies and growth opportunities and managing the conflicts that may arise between existing businesses and corporate entrepreneurial ventures. Students will also†learn to†identify the elements of an organization's culture, structure and reward and control systems that either inhibit or support the corporate entrepreneurship, and analyze how corporate entrepreneurial activities relate to a company's ability to drive innovation throughout the organization.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship,MBA Strategic Management

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Corporations place high importance on innovation and new product development for competitiveness and profitability. Since many companies are operating in a global environment, there‚?s a need to find ways to harness the talent of people at multiple locations. This course is designed to teach global innovation and new product development using ‚?virtual team and connectivity‚ techniques involving multiple locations/countries, while equipping students with the necessary knowledge, expertise and capabilities towards this goal. This course may also be conducted with Suffolk Law School students.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship,MBA International Business

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

The overall objective of this course is to develop skills needed for you to succeed as a franchisee, franchisor, or franchising executive. The franchising method of doing business is increasing rapidly worldwide. Many products and service businesses are managed through franchising networks. Consequently, there is an increasing need among franchise firms for executives and entrepreneurs with franchising knowledge, and there are increasing opportunities for people to attain business ownership as franchisees. The course will deal with the important aspects of starting, developing and managing both franchise networks and franchises within those networks. Specific attention will be given to franchisor-franchisee relationship, and how both sides contribute to their mutual success. Profit opportunities, legal considerations, and international aspects of franchising will be discussed as well.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Over the past decade, the world of business and the environment has exploded. Beginning as an engineering-driven movement among a handful of companies during the 1980s, many firms have learned that improved environmental performance can save money and create competitive advantage. Much of the focus over the last 30 years has been on larger businesses. But now the big businesses are encouraging their small and mid-sized enterprises vendors and partners to pay attention to these concerns also. Consequently, the "greening" of Small Business is of utmost importance as many small businesses are a part of the supply chains of larger companies. And improving their performance can strengthen the business relationships of all parties by becoming cleaner, greener and sustainable businesses. This course will cover all aspects of green and sustainable business from innovation to new products to greening of the supply chain. It will cover how small and large businesses like General Electric, General Motors and others are paying attention to this very critical topic and taking actions which benefit the environment as well as their bottom lines and thus creating entrepreneurial opportunities in this growing market.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

MGES 826

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This advanced course is held in an experiential setting to help entrepreneurial-minded students, managers, etc. develop and practice their business skills working with real startups or small business under pro bono consulting arrangements. This course will be under the supervision of a faculty member, coach and advisor. Students will learn to assess client situations, develop alternatives and identify and defend solutions, at times within the client organization. This course is offered as a joint practicum with Suffolk Law School or as an independent study.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Entrepreneurship