Entrepreneurial & Family Business Studies

Requirements

A total of 12.00 credits with 3.00 credits from the Required Courses, minimum 3.00 credits from the list of ENTR Courses, and remaining credits, if applicable, from the list of other Electives:

Required Courses

Minimum 3.00 credits from the following Required Courses:

• ENTR 4600 3.00 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VENTURE CREATION

  Explores the many dimensions of new venture creation and growth and fosters innovation and new business formations. The focus will be on content and process questions as well as on formulation and implementation issues that relate to conceptualizing, developing and managing successful new ventures.

  Note: open to fourth-year BBA and iBBA students only.
  Course Credit Exclusion: SB/ENTR 4500 3.00.

• ENTR 4700 3.00 FINANCING GROWING VENTURES
  This course engages a range of topics central to the private equity world including the challenges of fundraising, the perspectives of institutional investors, evaluating investment opportunities, structuring deals, monitoring investments and exiting investments.

Elective Courses

Minimum 3.00 credits from the following ENTR Courses:

• ENTR 4400 3.00 FIELD STUDY: INNOVATING WITH ENTREPRENEURS, UNLOCKING NEW VENTURE POTENTIAL

  Provides students with firsthand experience of the opportunities and challenges growing organizations face. Student groups are paired with an entrepreneurial firm to research an opportunity or project for the firm. Limited classes emphasize consulting, market research and presentation skills.

  Prerequisites: Completion of all year 1 and year 2 core courses.

• ENTR 4500 3.00 ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TECHNOLOGY VENTURES

  This course brings forward the challenges and opportunities facing an entrepreneur creating a technology start-up. Students turn an idea into an enterprise by focusing on what customers want.

  Note: open to Years 3 and 4 BBA/iBBA students, students who have completed 60.00 engineering credits in Lassonde School of Engineering, or students with instructor permission.

  Course Credit Exclusion: SB/ENTR 4600 3.00.

• ENTR 4600 3.00 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VENTURE CREATION

  Explores the many dimensions of new venture creation and growth and fosters innovation and new business formations. The focus will be on content and process questions as well as on formulation and implementation issues that relate to conceptualizing, developing and managing successful new ventures.

  Note: open to fourth-year BBA and iBBA students only.
  Course Credit Exclusion: SB/ENTR 4500 3.00.

• ENTR 4700 3.00 FINANCING GROWING VENTURES
  This course engages a range of topics central to the private equity world including the challenges of fundraising, the perspectives of institutional investors, evaluating investment opportunities, structuring deals, monitoring investments and exiting investments.
• ENTR 4800 3.00 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

  This course is for students interested in the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. Using a combination of assigned readings, videos, guest speakers, and extensive interaction with real world social entrepreneurs, students will gain a broad understanding of business models within the field, as well as the challenges and decisions social entrepreneurs face during start-up and on an on-going basis.

• ENTR 4950 3.00 MANAGING THE FAMILY ENTERPRISE
  Family businesses comprise three interacting systems: the business, the family and the ownership systems. This course helps students understand how these systems must be managed through the development stages of a family enterprise. The course pays particular attention to issues of conflict management, succession and governance. It prepares students to advise family business and to understand how advising can help firms avoid pitfalls and reap benefits common to family enterprises.

Remaining credits, if applicable, from the following Elective Courses:

• FINE 3100 3.00 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  In this course, students develop their knowledge and skills as financial managers. The course includes both the study of financial management theories and the analysis of business cases. Building on the basics of financial management introduced in SB/FINE 2000 3.0, the course covers capital structure decisions, dividend policy, working capital management, capital budgeting, business valuation, mergers and acquisitions and risk management. Prerequisite: SB/FINE 2000. 3.00 Course Credit Exclusion: AP/ECON 4400 3.00, (Formerly: AS/ECON 4400 3.00 or AK/ECON 4082 3.00), AP/ECON 4220 3.00 (Formerly: AS/ECON 4420 3.00), and AP/ECON 4410 3.00 (Formerly: AS/ECON 4410 3.00)
• FINE 3050 3.00 PERSONAL FINANCE

  Students learn personal financial management with a focus on professional work in the financial services industry and more so for their own family situation. The main topics include goal-setting, budgeting, taxation, debt management, risk management, insurance, investment principles and practice and retirement planning. Much of the course is based upon realistic problems and cases.
  Prerequisite: SB/FINE 2000 3.00 and Year 3 BBA/IBBA standing required
  Course Credit Exclusion: SB/FINE 4050 3.00

• MKTG 3000 3.00 FUTURE OF MARKETING

  This course develops students’ abilities to reimagine and develop new conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and technologies for future of marketing strategies. Students learn how to communicate novel marketing concepts to management. The course teaches students how to research, create, implement and evaluate innovative marketing plans for nascent digital technologies. Students learn to think and write critically about consumer privacy and ethics.

  Note: Priority given to 3rd year BBA/iBBA students.

• MKTG 3100 3.00 MARKETING RESEARCH

  This course develops a managerial appreciation of marketing research. The steps of the research project are delineated, from problem definition through research design, sample selection, data collection, analysis and presentation. The concepts discussed are integrated into the broader requirements of a marketing information system. A major term project is required.

  Prerequisite: SB/MKTG 1030 3.00
  (Previously offered as SB/ MKTG 2030 3.00).

• ORGS 4500 3.00 DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT SKILLS

  Provides basic instruction in, and extensive opportunities for, the practice of a number of personal and interpersonal skills of value to improving managerial effectiveness, including: stress and time management, presentation and meeting leadership skills, conflict management and negotiation skills, motivating, influencing others and effective listening. Classes are devoted primarily to experiential exercises; therefore, very little absenteeism is permitted. A high percentage of the grade is based on participation in class and the remainder is based on real-world applications of skills covered in this course.

  Previously offered as: SB/OBIR 4500 3.00.

  Prerequisites: SB/ORGS 2100 3.00 (previously offered as SB/ORGS 1000 3.00) (or equivalent) and SB/ORGS 2200 3.00 (previously offered as ORGS 2010 3.00) (or equivalent) or SB/INTL 2300 3.00 (previously offered as SB/INTL 1300 3.00).

• SUST 4300 3.00 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

  Previously offered as MGMT 4300 3.00

  Provides an advanced understanding of CSR by taking a distinctly global focus through readings and case analysis. The global focus not only reflects the main themes and issues raised in CSR debates, but also enables the student to appreciate the topic from the perspective of various regional settings. The emphasis is on providing a conceptual understanding of why CSR has become so important and a basic overview of how corporations have responded to this challenge.

  Prerequisites: BBA: SB/SUST 2060 3.00 (formerly SB/MGMT 2060 3.00 or SB/MGMT 2040 3.00 or SB/MGMT 1040 3.00)
  Prerequisites: iBBA: SB/INTL 1400 3.00 (previously offered as SB/INTL 3400 1.50 and INTL 3500 3.00)