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Introduces entrepreneurship, focusing on the following questions: What is
entrepreneurship and how do you become an entrepreneur? How do you find or
create ideas that might become businesses? How can you determine if the ideas
have merit in the marketplace? How do you start a firm that, from the
beginning, is market oriented and focused on what customers need and are
willing to buy? Gives students an opportunity to conduct detailed evaluations
of new business ideas.
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ENT 1344
Starting and Managing a New Business
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4 QH |
Identifies the key principles and practices needed to start a business from the
initial idea to the management of profits and further expansion. Covers such
topics as alternative approaches to business entry, initial team building,
managing interactions with initial customers, establishing control systems,
legal matters, and building necessary external relationships. Gives students an
opportunity to analyze a new venture.
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ENT 1352
Planning and Growing New Ventures
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4 QH |
Focuses on how entrepreneurs turn small businesses into larger businesses.
Includes planning, forecasting sales, increasing production, designing new
products or services, designing distribution and managing a sales force,
managing personnel, using strategic linkages with other companies to increase
market presence, and working with a growing customer base. Discusses how to
manage a small firm in hard financial times. Offers students an opportunity to
develop comprehensive business plans for new or existing businesses as term
projects.
Provides students with an opportunity to apply their business training through
an analytical, problem-solving technique learned in the classroom. Expects
student teams to interact with owners and managers of local small businesses to
analyze problems and opportunities and develop recommendations, and to devote
the equivalent of two days per week to collecting information. Combines
experience with occasional class meetings and frequent team meetings with a
faculty member. Sponsored by the United States Small Business Administration
(SBA). Requires students
to present interim progress reports and final written and oral reports to the
client company and the SBA. Prereq. Junior standing or permission of
instructor.
Allows students who have received approval to undertake independent study in
lieu of any course required in the various concentrations. Students present
proposals to an Independent Studies Committee for evaluation and approval.
Every proposal requires a detailed outline of the objectives and plan of study
and must be accompanied by a supporting statement from the supervising faculty
member under whose direction the study will take place. A copy of the final
report prepared by the student is presented to the appropriate Independent
Studies Committee. Further information about the Independent Studies Program
can be obtained from concentration coordinators.
Same as ENT1591.
Same as ENT1591.
Same as ENT1591.
Same as ENT1591.
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