Course Objectives: 

Expose students to entrepreneurship environments. Students will develop 
a greater self-awareness of their fit with entrepreneurial environments.
Students will also learn the processes of venture idea generation, idea 
screening, feasibility analysis, and business planning. This will be 
accomplished through a combination of readings, projects, exercises, and 
speakers designed to convey the unique environment of entrepreneurship 
and new venture creation. 

Students who complete MGMT 5500 will: 
  · Understand what entrepreneurship is and why entrepreneurship is 
    important to society; 
  · Acquire tools to creatively solve problems and generate venture ideas; 
  · Learn the difference between an idea and an opportunity and how to 
    evaluate potential opportunities; 
  · Develop new, or improve upon existing, business models; 
  · Write a business plan on a selected venture idea; 
  · Be exposed to the process of starting a business, and to the process 
    of firm growth after startup.

The following topics are covered in this course:

1) Needed: An Entrepreneurial Mindset
2) Framing the Challenge
3) Building Blockbuster Products and Services
4) Re-differentiating Products and Services
5) Disrupting the Rules of the Game
6) Building Breakthrough Competences
7) Selecting your Competitive Terrain
8) Assembling your Opportunity Portfolio
9) Selecting and Executing your Entry
10) Putting Discovery-Driven Entry Strategy to Work
11) Managing Projects with Uncertain Outcomes
12) The Most Important Job: Entrepreneurial Mindset
13) The Entrepreneurial Edge: When Strategy is Discovery

All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of 
honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers.  The
penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an
acceptable defense.

Academic honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarizing,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving assistance from any other
person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge.