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Prerequisite(s): only open to BBA students.
An introductory course in entrepreneurship designed to explore the development of innovative thinking and venture exploration which would ultimately lead to a new venture. Topics covered include: Developing an innovative perspective as well as identifying and testing venture concepts. Topics are introduced through the use of creative exercises, team projects, concept identification journals, discussion of entrepreneurship cases, and a business venture startup game.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): ENT 3320 or consent of instructor.
Successful entrepreneurs must effectively manage scarce resources in an increasingly complex and global world. This course is designed to provide students with a wide range of financial skills to more effectively manage their resources. Specific issues critical to emerging businesses such as financial forecasting, effective financial management, sources of financing, bootstrapping, and exit planning will be examined. A student may not get credit for both ENT 4310 and FIN 4310.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s):  ENT 3320 or consent of instructor; only open to BBA students
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of developing new ventures as entrepreneurs (i.e., building new organizations) and intrapreneurs (i.e., acting entrepreneurial within existing organizations). As such, ENT 4321 bridges entrepreneurship and corporate innovation topics. Students will be exposed to the formal process of launching a new business, the principles of organization design, and how organizational design can enhance or constrain innovation. Students will explore topics like organizational governance, incentive structures, challenges of new venture growth, advertising, purchasing, inventory management, and contracts. Students will also explore some of the unique aspects facing new venture development like technology, crime, risk management, and ethics.

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Prerequisite(s): ENT 4310 and ENT 4321 or consent of Instructor:  Entrepreneurship Capstone explores advanced topics focused on start-up and new venture growth activities.  Students learn to utilize all functional areas of the new venture to optimize revenue, finance firm growth, and maximize value creation.  The emphasis is on providing practical tools through experiential learning.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): ENT 4310 and ENT 4321 or consent of Instructor.

Corporate Innovation Capstone explores advanced topics that focus on creating and implementing sustained, innovation-driven growth in corporate settings.   A core aim is providing students with tools for recognizing breakthrough-level innovation opportunities and then practicing their use by inventing needed solutions. Additional modules focus on the use of these tools and processes in a larger organizational context where selecting and developing the best innovation target is critical. 

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): ENT 3320 (may be taken concurrently) or consent of the instructor.
Focuses on the individual and the skills and behaviors necessary to be a successful entrepreneur. Students will develop creative thinking skills that will enable them to recognize business opportunities. Other skills include team building, goal setting, leadership, and negotiation. Significant portions of the course are conducted through experiential exercises and simulations.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and consent of instructor.
Examines entrepreneurship in other countries by focusing on the unique opportunities and problems associated with the particular country being studied. Comparisons are made between the host country and the United States. General issues related to doing business across national boundaries are included. This course is taught only outside the United States.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): Either ENT 3315 or 3320.
Entrepreneurship is increasingly global in nature, continuously creating new opportunities and competitors. Global Perspectives on New Ventures provides a deep understanding of these dynamics and helps students develop startup concepts that are more likely to succeed in the country-business context in which they may one day launch new international ventures.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): Not open to pre-business students.
Explores the unique personal and interpersonal issues, as well as the business issues, associated with the family-owned and managed firm. Topics evaluated in the course include the competitive strengths and weaknesses of a family firm; the dynamics of family interactions and the family business culture; conflict resolutions; estate planning; and planning for succession.

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Pre-requisite(s): Upper-level standing; BBA students must be admitted to the Business School in order to take this course Business based on patentable technologies display different business models and characteristics from those of non-technical, mainstream businesses. Understanding these distinctions is critical to technology commercialization. Technology Entrepreneurship examines the entire technology commercialization process, from concept to market. It is intended to provide students in business, engineering, and the sciences with the knowledge needed to participate effectively in the processes required for the successful introduction of new technology products in the marketplace.

Course Description

Consent of instructor.
BA summer study abroad program that covers a broad range of topics that critically affect startup concerns of businesses in the European Union. Primary emphasis is placed on marketing concerns, economic analysis, and business plan preparation for business. Other issues to be investigated include identifying venture opportunities, concept development, market analysis, pricing, budgeting, legal forms of organization, management of the team, and business valuation and dilution. The students will apply this knowledge by preparing a business plan for a business venture -- based on a well-defined concept of the product or service that could develop within their discipline -- and by presenting their final plans to a panel of private equity holders, venture capitalist, bankers, and other entrepreneurship experts. The course is only offered as part of a Baylor study abroad program.

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Prerequisite(s): ENT 3320 or consent of the instructor.
Is capitalism good for the poor? This course examines the morality of capitalism, the role of institutions in perpetuating or eliminating absolute poverty, and the contextual challenges of entrepreneurship. Recognizing the socio-cultural, political, economic, and technological challenges of doing business in the third world, we use organizational theory to design for-profit ventures that use appropriate technologies to create sustainable solutions to social problems. Course projects are intended to produce organizations that will be partially owned and operated by the members of the communities that benefit from their goods and services.

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Prerequisite(s): None
This course is designed to introduce the student to the business concept of franchising from the perspectives of both the franchisee and the franchisor. The student will learn to evaluate a franchising opportunity from the franchisee by completing a feasibility study of a currently available franchise and the potential for franchising a business idea by completing a business plan. Managing the franchise will be covered as well.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; not open to pre-business students.
Supervised work by a manager in a firm involved in entrepreneurship. Application and requirements for the entrepreneurship internship are available from the chair of the management and entrepreneurship department.

Course Description

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; not open to pre-business students.
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Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; not open to pre-business students.
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Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; not open to pre-business students.
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