AEM 4380: Entrepreneurial Strategy for Tech Ventures explores the application of strategy on high growth startups. Taught by Professor Michael Roach in Spring every year, the class has become a student favorite for students across all disciplines. Currently you can attend AEM 4390 on Tue/Thursday between 11:40 and 2:40 to take a glimpse of what the class offers!
The eCornell Webseries enables the full time student to gain critical knowledge about entrepreneurship. Read on for an exclusive WebSeries promotion for E@D readers and to learn from Chris Wofford about how you could gain insights on this topic from the comfort of your room.
“This class is a lot different than armchair learning” is the way Professor Wessels explains her new course. She is the Executive Director of the Center for Transformative Action and is launching a new course, AEM 4940, where students learn social entrepreneurship by working with Anabel’s Grocery throughout the course.
What were you doing over winter break? While everyone’s answer varies, fifteen students had the opportunity to help small business leaders in a developing nation. This January, Deborah Streeter launched the first semester of AEM 3382: Social Enterprise Development. Students visited El Rodeito, Honduras for one week over break, met with small businesses, and are spending the spring semester developing solutions for the businesses’ problems.
Does your family own a business? Are you interested in starting a business? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions or are looking for an interesting way to spend Wednesday evenings, join NBA 5820: Leadership in Family Enterprise: In Practice and Theory. It is a new, one-credit course open to undergraduate and graduate students.
The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship just launched an Entrepreneurship Concentration for undergraduate students in the Hotel School. Entrepreneurship is the fourth concentration (along with Human Resources, Law, and Managerial Leadership) within the HOLD, or Hospitality Leadership, area. The concentration requires 12 credits minimum, including: Required Courses (8 credits) HADM 3135/6135: Conversations with Entrepreneurs…
Course Description: The aim of this course is to sharpen your skills in all of the activities associated with entrepreneurial finance, including identifying attractive business opportunities; estimating the resources necessary to undertake these opportunities; securing such financial and human resources on favorable terms; and prudently managing them in pursuit of the opportunity. Spring. 3 credits.…
Course Description: Designed as a hands-on experience to prepare students for executive-level strategy execution, this class is a culmination of the completion of four years of Dyson courses in managerial economics, finance, accounting, marketing, and macroeconomics, in which students will use real-time strategic decision-making from each topic area to influence the success of virtual companies.…
Course Description Explores the impact of new technologies on business processes and industries. Focuses particularly on the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT). The objective is to understand the nature of information as an economic good, business opportunities and challenges created by ICT, and organizational constraints involved in exploiting these opportunities. Fall. 3 credits.…
Last March, Cornell introduced the Green Business Lab in order to promote communication, leadership skills and business ethics among Cornell students. Deborah Mann, on-site facilitator for the Green Business Simulation Lab, said that the lab provided students with hands-on business experience “in real time, under real stressful conditions.” This year, the Green Business Lab…
Know that you have a passion for entrepreneurship but are just missing that one big idea? Or do you have so many ideas that you can’t seem to choose just one? NBA 5380 – The Business Idea Factory might just be the class for you! This Fall of 2014, Professor Brad Treat will be introducing…
New! Master of Professional Studies in Agriculture and Life Sciences with concentration in Applied Behavioral Economics and Individual Choice Are you or any of your friends interested in pursuing graduate studies upon graduation? Do you or your friends want to change the way the world thinks about food marketing, public policy, consulting, or consumer research? If…
1. Why is the course valuable to entrepreneurial students? Students in AEM 3440 learn how to specifically target consumers, a skill that is essential to building a successful business. The psychology behind consumer decisions is uncovered and discussed. Through a variety of class projects, students get several opportunities to actively work through a marketing problem…
The class can be valuable to both entrepreneurial students AND students that are interested in being effective and innovative managers within more established companies.
Why is the course valuable to entrepreneurial students? In BEE 4890 Professor Timmons draws from his own personal, real-world experience of having started multiple companies. He focusses on the engineering student but this class would be valuable for all, especially students from other disciplines who want to work in diverse teams with engineers. What…
Comments from Professor Streeter: Why is this course valuable to an entrepreneurial student? AEM 4660 is a 7-week simulation course that meets for three hours a week. The class gives students the opportunity to make real-life business decisions and see the outcomes of their choices. Every class, students meet with their team of five to…
This course equips students with the skills needed to begin developing an entrepreneurial idea. The first part of the course focuses on introducing the lean startup model and the idea of a minimum viable product…
AEM1200, “Introduction to Business Management”, delivers a broad introduction to concepts that are fundamental to understand and to endeavor in business, in management and, hence, in entrepreneurship. It is meant to both inform the student and to set a strong foundation for further studies and action.
Here’s something to keep in mind with Spring 2014 pre-enroll coming up this week! Comments from Professor Streeter: 1) Why is the course valuable to entrepreneurial students? Every year I ask the students “If someone asks you, “What is the true value of AEM 3340?” what would you say?”Here is one of my favorites from…
By the end of class, you will have built your own personal “toolkit” consisting of a network of mentors, a business team, and the knowledge of how to create and carry out a business plan.