47 courses with the subject INNO, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
Designed to provide students with an in-depth exposure to entrepreneurship in the social sector, a rapidly growing segment of the global economy. Uses the case method to expose students to leading entrepreneurs who have developed and implemented business models to solve social problems such as extreme poverty, disease, illiteracy, and economic and social dislocation. Focuses on uniquely creative and driven people who have dedicated their lives to making a difference in the lives of others through values-based entrepreneurship.
Attribute(s): NUpath Creative Express/Innov
Offers students an opportunity to learn several interrelated frameworks, concepts, and the language necessary to understand and analyze the origin and implications of industry disruptions and the difficulties experienced by incumbent firms as they seek to respond to the changes. Geared toward students who want to become innovation leaders in established companies and lead projects to create and launch new products or services, as well as students who plan to start their own businesses, particularly in high-technology sectors.
Studies business profitability for investors while sustainably serving its other stakeholders including customers, employees, communities, and the planet. Reviews stakeholder theory as a more sustainable alternative to the traditional focus on maximizing shareholder value. Topics covered include purpose or mission-driven business models (for example, certified B corporations and public benefit corporations); values-based corporate cultures and systems; transparent and accountable governance systems and practices; authentic leadership and moral decision making; sustainable business strategies and practices; and fair compensation structures including profit sharing, broad employee stock ownership, and thriving employee pay and benefits. Studies the impact businesses can have on reducing economic injustice and inequality. Course is based in innovative and entrepreneurial thinking that includes diverse subjects such as strategy, management, finance, law, philosophy, sociology, and psychology.
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
Offers a comprehensive toolkit for analyzing, evaluating, or designing new digital, data-driven, and platform-based business models—distilling lessons from leading research and industry best practices. Beyond usual platform theories, addresses key issues of internal operations, ecosystem management, technology architecture, and how and where to deploy data science and AI. Engages students with in-the-cockpit decision making from the perspective of CEOs, product and technology managers, investors, and policymakers, helping students acquire powerful tools and concepts. Course content adheres to a foundation of timeless economic theory and strategic management principles. Offers students an opportunity to sharpen their economic and strategic reasoning, whether they are advanced students or beginners in these areas.
Attribute(s): NUpath Societies/Institutions
Examines the impact finance and impact measurement landscape. Impact-first innovation and entrepreneurship are rapidly growing segments of the global economy. Studies how impact-first solutions to complex social and environmental problems can be enabled by funding instruments from impact investing, philanthropy, and government aid. Introduces the impact finance and impact measurement landscape from the perspective of a founder. Students develop a theory of change, impact measurement framework, funding strategy, and impact narrative for an existing impact project that is ready to scale.
Covers the intersection of project management, product development, and product portfolio management. Focuses on how large corporations develop, manage, and commercialize new products and services. Explores the unique attributes of different industries, such as internet platform-based firms, service-based firms, traditional manufacturing firms, and healthcare.
Explores impact investing, a transformative way to work with money to achieve a more inclusive and sustainable economy. Large investors are entering the world of impact investing, a rapidly emerging space where social and ecological effects of finance are championed over maximizing shareholder value. New investment vehicles such as social impact bonds and Web exchanges are changing the role of financing institutions to better serve the needs of low-income populations around the world. Applies interdisciplinary frameworks, tools, and cases, with hands-on teamwork and guest speakers, to critically examine the field. Offers students an opportunity to learn to develop and test concepts that integrate social responsibility, sustainability, and mutual accountability into current financial and economic systems while expanding social capital markets.
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
Analyzes whether, why, and how multibusiness corporations expand their operations into new business areas by questioning decisions to grow organically or through mechanisms such as acquisitions or alliances. Uses rigorous case-based discussions, expert readings, and major current events to discuss issues related to the choice of make, buy, or partner. Evaluates how these different corporate entrepreneurial strategies are used to help firms be more competitive and innovative.
Prerequisite(s): ENTR 2301 with a minimum grade of D- or INNO 2301 with a minimum grade of D- or BUSM 207M with a minimum grade of D-
Takes a system thinking approach to understanding complex social and environmental problems at local, national, and international levels. Studies the role social innovators and entrepreneurs can play in fostering collaboration at the intersection of social impact, environmental sustainability, and profit maximization. Presents and collectively analyzes through discussion the emerging theories, practices, and frameworks for driving social and sustainable impact. Culminates in a team project where students integrate their learning to deconstruct a complex problem and develop a theory of change that drives sustainable and social impact at scale.
Examines areas of current interest and special topics in innovation. Employs a mix of lectures, cases, and projects. Topics depend on the instructor. May be repeated once.
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
Explores the challenges and processes for harnessing technological innovation for new-business development. Integrates technology strategy, innovation in marketing, product development, and organization design for the purpose of enterprise growth. Through readings, cases, and exercises, studies how firms from different industries gain competitive advantage through distinctive products and services, and leverage their technologies and skills into new emerging markets. Also focuses on processes for conceiving, financing, and organizing new ventures.This course is only available to students who matriculated in a Northeastern program prior to Fall 2026 that requires completion of this course.
Examines how the global economy is being transformed by digital and information technologies. Companies increasingly use these technologies to develop and deliver products and services, interact with customers and stakeholders, operate their businesses more efficiently, and disrupt traditional business models with innovative digital solutions. Analyzes how digital technologies offer established companies opportunities to reduce costs, operate more quickly, and offer customers codesign and coproduction options. Studies how firms adapt to new conditions by adopting information technology and the barriers to entry inherent in every organization.
Examines how organizations invest in new technologies to gain a competitive edge. Exposes students to different methods used to improve core business performance through strategic planning, technology road mapping, and market analysis. Offers students an opportunity for hands-on experience with formulating and implementing strategic plans.
Prerequisite(s): INNO 6240 with a minimum grade of C-
Prerequisite(s): INNO 6241 with a minimum grade of C-
Offers three executive seminars in which students build "chapters" that comprise their Integrated and Applied Technology Leadership (IATL) project. Primarily examines the technical and managerial challenges of implementing complex technology-based products—from system modeling, integration of modules, requirements verification, and formal specifications to the definition and overall coordination of the development team's efforts. Covers multiple product environments. Pairs students with mentors based on initial project proposal. Regular meetings with mentors offer students opportunities to refine the project and reinforce the business needs. May be repeated twice.
Explores technology's role in addressing urban sustainability. Examines the impact of technology, designing profitable smart city projects, and key factors influencing corporate involvement in these initiatives. Studies the navigation of public sector processes for mutual benefit. Topics include smart traffic, safety, housing, the environment, education, healthcare, economic development, and tourism.
Explores the foundations of the metaverse and its impact on technology, society, and commerce. Analyzes the historical context, augmented and virtual reality, alternate realities, and the potential for a fully realized metaverse. Utilizes transmedia storytelling as a lens to understand how these dimensions shape the human experience and offers opportunities for creative and profitable interactions.
Introduces the intersection of law and technology, focusing on legal principles impacting business decisions. Examines how to make informed choices and collaborate with lawyers. Emphasizes understanding key legal issues, effective interaction with legal professionals, and fostering the capability to discuss and explain issues within business teams.
Covers topics specific to managing a business or a strategic business unit within a firm. Considers the special issues related to technology-based firms. Topics include creating a culture, operations planning, staffing for technical excellence, dealing with technology vendors, dealing with advisers, supply chain management, and writing operations plans. Open to first-year graduate students.
Explores the challenges and processes for harnessing technological innovation for new-business development. Integrates technology strategy, marketing innovation, product development, and organization design for the purpose of enterprise growth. Uses readings, cases, and exercises to study how firms from different industries gain competitive advantage through distinctive products and services and leverage their technologies and skills into new emerging markets. Focuses on processes for conceiving, financing, and organizing new ventures.
Covers the design of blockchains and their applications in healthcare, media, financial services, information security, supply chain logistics, and enterprise systems. Introduces the technology underlying blockchains and related implications for IT, analytics, business models, and business processes.Studies a variety of topics within the domain of blockchain technology and its enablement of machine learning. Demonstrates and shares business implications through faculty-led discussion and synthesis. Readings, content, and lectures are context and raw materials.
Introduces students to ideas, frameworks, and design principles for creating greater economic value for consumers and in B2B situations. Explores the full “Progression of Economic Value” beginning with fungible commodities (the basis of the agrarian economy), to tangible goods (the industrial economy), to intangible services (last century’s service economy), shifting into memorable experiences—the basis of the experience economy.
Introduces the tools needed to build, deliver, and implement a cybersecurity strategy, obtain board consensus around the proposed strategy, and develop an associated “cyber playbook” to respond to security incidents. Focuses on cybersecurity strategy and risk framework from the perspective of the board and executive team. Offers students an opportunity to transition from a strategy and planning perspective to driving cybersecurity tactically with security teams and the business, including security awareness and integration of security controls. Examines how to apply tactical knowledge of incident response and reporting via a scenario-based experiential exercise with role-playing in a simulated cybersecurity crisis situation derived from real-world scenarios.
Offers students an opportunity to enhance their technology leader skills by developing a working knowledge of data technology concepts such as NoSQL, Hadoop, and distributed processing. Explores metaconcepts to overcome common stumbling blocks and foster collaboration between technology and analysts when defining new work. Students work in groups and individually to experience the frustrations and resolutions of developing a business requirements document for an analytics project. Requires students to present group deliverables each week and to participate in discussions that focus on the process of working on both sides of relationships with technology leads and business users.
Examines tactical orientation following identification of a security threat, at the point of requiring immediate analysis and response to mitigate damage and loss to an organization. Reviews the strategic design of a connected defensive structure built of tools, procedures, and integrations. Focuses on business model relationships to security threat profiles, including managing vulnerability introduced through mergers and acquisitions and active directory migrations. Studies service and administrative account management and other aspects of network design and management. Offers students an opportunity to investigate recent/current cases and to devise countermeasures aimed at incident prevention and effective cyber incident response management and monitoring.
Focuses on the impact of information technology on an organization’s transformative objectives. Studies concepts relating to how to integrate IT as the key driver for business process change, for continuous improvement in incremental gains, and for selective reengineering to effectuate substantial breakthroughs in process performance. Offers students an opportunity to develop an understanding of how technology has a push effect on an organization’s processes and of the various factors that must be in synch to facilitate such an effect.
Explores multiple strategies for students to launch new ventures as entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs. Focuses on the assessment of business models, funding strategies, team building approaches, and go-to-market examples for new ventures. Offers students an opportunity to draw upon previous academic and professional experience in cross-disciplinary ideation, finance, business strategy, law, market research, and organizational behavior to actualize new venture ideas. Culminates in a new venture pitch to mentors and peers who may include serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, startup advisors, and individuals with C-level corporate experience.
Focuses on the strategic and tactical aspects of managing product innovation and portfolios within diverse organizational contexts. Explores methodologies such as stage-gate, lean startup, and agile practices while analyzing challenges in industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare. Key topics include opportunity identification, customer needs analysis, technology roadmapping, and financial planning.
An experiential course integrating strategic product management principles with real-world application, guiding students through the development of a new product line for an existing brand. Emphasizes customer discovery, market research, and economic feasibility, balancing innovation with brand alignment. Introduces tools for financial modeling, ROI analysis, and prototyping as a means to explore the end-to-end process of product line development.
Explores advanced principles in product innovation management. Focuses on integrating design thinking, innovation strategy, and portfolio management. Through experiential learning, offers students an opportunity to develop skills in assessing product life cycle stages, aligning innovation portfolios with strategic goals, and applying metrics for data-driven decision making.
Presents a comprehensive framework for understanding and managing ecosystems and stakeholders. Explores how firms can effectively shape ecosystems, create value through partnerships, and align the interests of various stakeholders. Examines key topics such as stakeholder theory, ecosystem mapping, ecosystem evolution, and digital transformation. Uses case studies, readings, and practical exercises to offer students an opportunity to identify ecosystem dynamics; map stakeholder landscapes; and implement strategies for fostering collaboration, innovation, and resilience. Also addresses the challenges of managing stakeholder expectations in the face of rapid technological change, evolving consumer preferences, and increasing demands for corporate responsibility.
Presents how corporations and large organizations can drive positive social and environmental impact. Exposes students to corporate social responsibility, B-Corp certification, and the business sustainability landscape. Offers students an opportunity to evaluate a corporation’s existing business practices and use innovative principles and practices to design alternatives that minimize negative externalities and maximize social and environmental impact. Explores how to develop an impact report card, theory of change, and impact narrative for a corporation interested in improving its social and environmental impact.
Examines applied innovation in the form of creating new products, systems, and services. Guides students through the significant dimensions of innovation for existing corporations and startups. Covers technology and business model strategy; the impact of disruptive technologies on entire industries; and the strategies and approach for internal, organic enterprise growth.
Presents in-depth coverage of the latest research and practical applications of intelligent technologies in different areas of business, from product/service ideation to production and commercialization. Focuses on novel firm strategies and business model changes enabled by intelligent technologies and on how employees, customers, and company leaders are affected by them.
Introduces a number of entrepreneurship and innovation topics. Includes innovation and entrepreneurship as a value-creating activity for economies and firms; types of innovation (technological, process, products, business models); fundamentals of product development (design thinking, rapid prototyping, ethnography); startup creation and articulating a value proposition; the role and traits of the entrepreneur; maximizing odds of success and minimizing odds of failure; growing the startup and creating a market; finding or creating the right niche; pivoting and judo strategy; lean startup approach; innovation in established firms and resistance to change; organizational inertia; business model change; and technological discontinuities.
Analyzes whether, why, and how firms expand their operations into new business areas by questioning decisions to grow (e.g., through vertical integration or diversification) and decisions to do so organically or through alternative mechanisms such as acquisitions, alliances, franchising, corporate venture capital, and private equity investments. Includes the study of how organizations evolve and transform over time. Uses rigorous case-based discussions, expert readings, and major current events to discuss issues related to the choice of make, buy, or partner. Evaluates how these different strategies are used to help firms become more competitive and innovative.
Examines in-depth societal and ethical challenges that companies increasingly encounter when developing and deploying new technologies. Analyzes how firms address such important issues while seeking competitive advantage in the marketplace. Explores unintended consequences resulting from technological advances and evaluates how companies, regulators, and society have responded. Through comprehensive case studies, original research papers, and real-world applications, offers students an opportunity to develop frameworks for addressing contemporary issues related to new technologies.
Examines the innovation and development of platform-based and data/AI-driven business models in the modern economy—for both large enterprises and entrepreneurial firms. Explores strategic principles and economic forces underlying network effects, multisided markets, governance, pricing, competition, and the integration of data and AI into operating models. Provides analytical frameworks to evaluate, design, and manage platform enterprises across industries. Offers students an opportunity to engage with cutting-edge issues in digital strategy, innovation, and societal impact while developing a durable toolkit of concepts and methods for platform analysis.
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