20 courses with the subject EBD, 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.
EBD 280Entrepreneurship for Non-Business Majors3
Primary focus on the entrepreneurial mindset and the process for starting a business. Specific areas include the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, profiles of successful new businesses, identifying and evaluating new business opportunities, and developing the business plan. Social and developmental entrepreneurship are also addressed.
Primary focus on the processes for fostering creativity and innovation. Emphasis on the creative process, creative problem solving, and intrapreneurship. Particular attention directed to the development of new products, services, processes, and business models.
EBD 282Entrepreneurship for the Sciences and Engineering
This course introduces non-business, scientifically-oriented students to the process of creating new ventures and entrepreneurship in engineering and science intensive industries, such as chemical, energy, materials, bioengineering, environmental, clean-tech, pharmaceuticals, medical and biotechnology. Students gain a good sense of the excitement, complexity, and challenges associated with the creation of new businesses, whether within an existing organization or in a startup environment. The focus is on new ventures that require long development times, large investments, integration across a wide range of technical and non-technical disciplines, and the creation and protection of intellectual property. Teaching methods will include lectures, case studies, guest speakers and individual and team projects.
Seminar in selected topics in Entrepreneurship. This course does not fulfill requirements towards any major or concentration in the Cameron School of Business.
EBD 301Entrepreneurial Finance for Non-Business Majors3
Course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage cash as well as manage the necessary records in a small business. Topics include: calculating startup costs, running a monthly, quarterly and annual budget for a business, understanding the different sources of capital and how to obtain them, projecting income and what investors, lenders and grant organizations look for in an entrepreneurial venture. SBIR/STTR funding, financial analysis and record-keeping necessary to comply with federal, state, and local tax law are also addressed.
Focus on key organizational activities that facilitate the growth and management of an enterprise. Provides valuable information for effective marketing techniques designed to grow, compete, and sustain the business. Focus on managing human resources and the ability to strategically develop the business model as it progresses through growth phases. Focus on key organizational activities that facilitate the growth and management of an enterprise. Provides valuable information for effective marketing techniques designed to grow, compete, and sustain the business. Focus on managing human resources and the ability to strategically develop the business model as it progresses through growth phases. Students will also learn successful exit strategies for a business. Leadership, management, positioning, legal strategies, sales strategies, and scaling strategy are also addressed.
EBD 303Entrepreneurship in Under Resourced Communities3
The course examines the cohesive forces underlying underserved and under resourced communities, such as culture, ethnicity, relationships, institutions, economic structure, lack of access to finances, discrimination, and social capital; how these forces evolve over time. The course also focuses on the tools, skills and strategies entrepreneurs can utilize to establish and grow successful business activities within underserved and under resourced communities. Special attention will be given as to the role of consultants and advisors, and how entrepreneurial activity can lead to economic development.
This course will introduce and outline the role of “art” in various marketplaces, and how the emerging arts entrepreneur operates in society. Topics include how to position and market aesthetic products, the pricing of art products, understanding consumer behavior for aesthetic products, the modes of financing, and art patronage. Course will also examine the nature of art infrastructures, such as museums, festivals, and galleries, and the overall economics of the arts in modern society.
Development and adoption of new technology in corporate operations. Attention directed to creating an environment that fosters continuous improvement through experimentation, innovation, and change. Topics include the nature of technology, its role in business strategy, technological forecasting, the creative process, organization and management of professional personnel, and project management techniques.
Primary focus is understanding entrepreneurship as a process and phenomenon that occurs in many different contexts. The course approaches entrepreneurship as a way of thinking and acting, as an attitude and a behavior. Specific areas include entrepreneuriial competencies (e.g., opportunity assessment and recognition techniques) and career paths, venture typologies, as well as basics of business and economic modeling, financing, marketing, legal and IP issues.
ACG 203 . Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
EBD 383Entrepreneurship Analytics3
Students will develop the ability to build, analyze, and interpret data essential for recognizing attractive entrepreneurial opportunities. As the market place is constantly shifting, the major challenge is to iteratively combine different sources of data to comprehensively identify new offerings, customer preferences, and gaps in the market.
All companies in all industries seek employees that have an entrepreneurial mindset because they are looking for growth and growth is difficult to generate. Emphasis is on how every job presents opportunities for entrepreneurship, and about different mechanisms that companies use to look for and implement new growth initiatives. The course content will include four parts. First, students will have the opportunity to develop a plan to find a job that will take advantage of entrepreneurial mindset. Next, students will learn how they can apply entrepreneurial mindset to any job. The third part will focus on corporate venture groups. The final part will focus on companies and how they can increase entrepreneurial orientation. Several concepts will be utilized to provide students with tools in their corporate entrepreneurial pursuits, for example: Design Thinking, Customer Relationship Management and Continuous Improvement Models.
Examination of the strategies for successful venture growth. Emphasis is placed on the challenges associated with maintaining a high rate of growth in relatively new firms. Particular attention directed to integrating strategic, operational and cultural issues. Students develop business plans for a new venture or business development. Extensive use of case analysis.
Focus on financial planning and analysis, sources of funding, and business valuation. Particular attention directed to debt financing, valuation theory and techniques, due diligence, angel investing, venture capital funding, and public/private offerings. Extensive use of case study.
Primary focus on entrepreneurial activities within the international arena. Particular attention on the mechanisms of international entry modes, import and export management, licensing mechanisms, international financing, the impact of globalization, identifying business opportunities, risk assessment, legal and accounting implications of international activities, and international intellectual protection processes. Upon completion of this course, students will be qualified to take the Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) exam.
EBD 490Business Development and Commercialization3
Course focuses on commercialization of an early stage firm’s product, technology and ideas. Issues such as scalability,licensing, intellectual property, project management, and the managerial side of expansion and growth will be studied. The course will also examine entrepreneurial activities commonly seen in coastal regions, such as marine science technologies, aquaculture, tourism, shipping, and other related activities. Extensive use of case study and field projects.
