Gain an Entrepreneurial Mindset
MBA students naturally model the skills/abilities of entrepreneurship, but to date, they consider that skillset’s utility limited to only startups and future business owners. We believe the entrepreneurial mindset is a foundational piece of the innovation and design thinking work that already exists in MBA. As entrepreneurship continues to grow in popularity across our university, the Broad College emerged as the leader in this space at MSU, and we are immensely proud to connect these new resources and curriculum to MBA students moving forward. This concentration will provide the academic frameworks needed to have a baseline understanding of entrepreneurship.
Outcomes
Project Management
Logistics/Procurement
Corporate Finance
Management Consulting
Brand Management
Entrepreneurship Concentration Courses
Entrepreneurship Concentration Required Course:
- MGT 852 Entrepreneurship: New Venture Opportunities
Appropriate techniques required to recognize new venture opportunities. Develop and evaluate ideas to determine whether they could become a viable new venture.
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Entrepreneurship Concentration Elective Courses:
Choose 9 credits from the courses below:
- ACC 822 Information Systems Project Management
Management of information system projects. Management of project scope, time, cost and quality. Optimization of project resources. Planning and control of projects. Program and portfolio management. Consulting issues for effective project management. Waterfall, lean and agile methodologies are discussed.
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- ACC 841 The Role of Accounting in Strategy Implementation
Strategic management control systems and accounting data supporting the design, implementation, monitoring, and continuous assessment of business strategies. Emerging risks and opportunities are also evaluated.
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- FI 847 Corporate Strategies and Risk Management
Identifying corporate strategies to help manage business, financing, and competitive risks. Case studies.
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- FI 869 Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
Introduction to the financing and valuation of entrepreneurial startups, venture capital and private equity. How to prepare a successful business plan to raise financing from venture capitalists. Structuring venture capital and private equity deals.
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- FI 870 Venture Capital and Private Equity
Advanced topics in the financing of entrepreneurial startups, venture capital and private equity. Valuation for entrepreneurial startups, venture capital and private equity, and institutions. Corporate venture capital. Venture capital investing and fundraising. Private equity investments. Sale of venture capital-backed entrepreneurial firms, and initial public equity offerings.
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- MGT 810 Human Resource Management for General Managers
Human resource management functions performed by all managers. Design, administration, and evaluation of human resource activities. Needs assessment, program implementation and evaluation, information management and decision support, and international human resource management.
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- MGT 817 Managing the Learning Organization
Assessing knowledge, skills, and abilities within the organization. Matching future employee skill needs with appropriate learning strategies. Linking employee knowledge, skills, and abilities with overall organizational strategies.
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- MGT 840 Leadership and Team Management
Development of leadership abilities through readings and laboratory application.
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- MGT 842 Leading A Strategy Change
Issues related to role of leadership in the change process. Emphasis on the need for and execution of a change in strategy.
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- MGT 872 Developing Competitive Strategy
Strategy development and execution as a process. Identification of issues that both impede and improve the likelihood of successful strategies.
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- MKT 806 Marketing Research for Decision Making
Collection and analysis of marketing research data for marketing decision making. Focuses on marketing research methods for data collection and introductory data analysis.
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- MKT 807 Consumer Insights
Traditional and emerging research tools that organizations use to capture the voice of the customer. Application of behavioral science research in developing deep understanding of customers that can be used in developing marketing strategies, including segmentation, positioning, branding, advertising, customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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- MKT 809 Pricing, Profitability and Marketing Metrics
Design, management, and integration of pricing into the marketing mix and the revenue yield strategies of the firm. Analytic, empirical and simulation approaches to pricing.
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- MKT 810 Open Innovation Management
Development of new products ideas for service firms and physical good manufacturers using voice of the customer approaches, leveraging ideas from channel partners, and from frontline employees. Fuzzy front end of the innovation process.
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- MKT 811 Brand Insights
Brand strategy consumer and customer analysis, competitive brand analysis and brand planning.
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- MKT 820 New Product Development and Portfolio Management
New product development processes for service firms and physical good manufacturers. Execution of the product development stages and gates with a focus on concept testing, assessing project risks, and business case development.
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- MKT 821 Brand Strategy
Brand strategy analysis, planning and development.
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- MKT 829 Digital Marketing
Fundamentals of online marketplace. Analysis of online consumer behavior and corporate digital marketing strategy, including online advertisement, search engine marketing, and social media strategy. Introduction to web analytic tools, online advertising platforms and social media analysis tools.
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- MKT 839 Experiential Learning in Digital Marketing
Classroom and field experience in digital marketing with a focus on the development, assessment, and optimization of paid search campaigns. Problem recognition, strategy development, deployment, assessment, revision, client report.
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