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MGMT 3015 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	IBUS 3010/MGMT 3010/MGMT 3015
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Career paths, including new business start-ups, franchising, acquisitions (including family business succession), corporate venturing, and entre-preneurial services. Legal structures for new business formation. Aspects of business law/ethics.

MGMT 4008 - Entrepreneurial Management

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Management of a new venture after founding. Internal/external challenges of managing a startup organization. Working with resource constraints and understanding how business models may change over time. prereq: MGMT 3015 or MGMT 3010 or IBUS 3010

MGMT 4055 - Managing Innovation and Change In Action

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	IBus 4050/Mgmt 4055
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course focuses on how business organizations innovate and change. The course covers foundational topics and combines both theoretical insights and practical knowledge based on cases and hands-on exercises. The class topics address the following questions: � What are the sources, types and patterns of innovation? � What are the characteristics of an organization?s innovation ecosystem? � How do organizations compete and collaborate in innovation ecosystems? � What are some external forces shaping organizational innovations? � How do organizations adapt to these external forces? By the end of this course, students will: Learn the key principles of success and failure of innovation and change in business organizations across different products, services and geographies. Apply course concepts to real organizational cases, diagnose problems and recommend solutions. Use clear written, verbal and online communication skills. Collaborate to create novel solutions to tasks and problems. Demonstrate the use of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative sources to support conclusions and recommendations. prereq: MGMT 3001 or MGMT 3004 or MGMT 3010 or MGMT 3015

MGMT 4175W - New Business Feasibility and Planning (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	03099
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the following insights into ? Techniques for developing and screening business ideas ? Criteria for properly assessing idea feasibility ? Equipping yourself with the necessary information and analysis to develop a useful business plan ? Preparing an effective business plan ? Effectively pitching the plan to stakeholders, primarily prospective investors The class makes use of lecture, videos, articles, cases, class exercises, assignments, and quizzes to help develop depth of understanding amongst students of the relevant subject matter of this course. prereq: MGMT 3010 or MGMT 3015 or IBUS 3010

MGMT 4171W - Entrepreneurship in Action I (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Two-semester course. In fall, students identify a business oportunity, develop concept, determine resources required, and launch the business. In spring, students implement business plan, manage business, and determine exit strategy. prereq: 3010, [4008 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4008], completed coursework in business core, CSOM upper division, approved application

MGMT 4080W - Applied Technology Entrepreneurship (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Mgmt 4170/Mgmt 4177/Mgmt 5177
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Team projects based on commercializable technologies or innovations. Teams present their ideas to investors and industry professionals. Students are encouraged to submit their business plans to Minnesota Cup.

ACCT 5201 - Intermediate Management Accounting

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is an in-action course. The course explores the topic of management accounting in greater depth. The course expands introductory course material via special emphasis on decision making, problem solving skills and exploration of accounting's role within overall management. The course is an in-action class. We will have a project working on a business case from a firm as the final assessment for the course. prereq: 3001, acct or finance major

ACCT 5161 - Financial Statement Analysis

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Interpretation/analysis of financial statements. Introduces basic techniques of financial statement analysis and applies them in different settings (e.g., in investment/credit decisions). prereq: [5101]

FINA 4221 - Principles of Corporate Finance

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Fina 4221/Fina 4241
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course evaluates how the financing choices the firm makes influence the creation of firm value and allocation of firm risks among investors. Course presents the debt vs. equity trade-off, tax effects of financing, dividend vs. share repurchases, and the impact on managerial incentives and agency problems. prereq: 3001 or 3001H, CSOM major or Math/Actuarial Science major or Management Minor

FINA 4422 - Financial Modeling

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This applied course builds on principles from the prerequisite courses and provides students with significant practice building financial models to identify the free cash flow from and required investment in projects or firms for discounted cash flow and sensitivity analysis. Course presents net operating working capital requirements, Valuation with Free Cash Flow based methods, and the construction of three statement pro-forma cash flow projections. Prereq: FINA 4221, ACCT 5101, CSOM major

HRIR 3031 - Staffing and Selection: Strategic and Operational Concerns

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to theory/practice of staffing decisions. Recruitment, selection, promotion, demotion, transfer, dismissal, layoff, retirement. Staffing analyzed from strategic/operational perspectives. Legal issues.

HRIR 4801W - HRIR Capstone: Personal and Organizational Leadership (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is a writing intensive capstone course for undergraduates majoring in HR. Given the emphasis of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) on the critical need for HR professionals to both be leaders and understand leadership development, we focus this capstone class on the topic of leadership within the context of the SHRM competency model. The first part of the course provides students with a solid understanding of leadership needs within organizations and current tools, vendors, and techniques that can be used to develop leadership bench strength and capability within companies. The second part of the course features guest speakers from different areas of HR and student presentations based on the SHRM competency model. The course will help students reflect upon the extreme importance of leadership, how to develop organizational leaders, and will provide means to develop their own first level leadership and human resources competencies. prereq: 3021, 6 HRIR credits, [senior status or dept consent]

IDSC 3202 - Analysis and Modeling of Business Systems

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Improving/automating key business processes in manufacturing and service industries. Roles of business management and MIS. Selecting business process opportunities, business process analysis, process modeling of work/data flow, decomposition, software tools. Traditional/object analysis methods. prereq: 3001

INS 4105 - Corporate Risk Management

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ins 6105/ Ins 4105
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theory applied to corporate risk management and insurance practices. Identification, measurement, and treatment of an organization.s financial risks integrated with its property, liability, workers compensation, and human resource risks. Selection and application of risk control and risk financing tools: risk retention, reduction and transfer, including insurance.

MKTG 3011 - Marketing Research

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course focuses on managing the entire marketing research process, which involves collecting and analyzing relevant, timely, and accurate information to gain customer insights and drive effective marketing decision making. Students learn fundamental techniques of data collection and analysis to solve specific marketing problems. The class offers hands-on learning-by-doing opportunities through group projects for students to practice every stage of marketing research. prereqs: 3001 and BA 2551 or SCO 2550 or equivalent statistics course

MKTG 4031 - Sales Management

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Hiring, motivating, performance enhancement. Customer relationship management, data analysis, quantitative methods. Developing metrics to evaluate individual/group performance in attaining an organization's strategic goals. prereq: MKTG 3040 or 3041

MKTG 4051 - Advertising and Promotion

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Managing/integrating communication aspects of marketing. Advertising, sales promotion, public relations. Setting objectives, selecting media. Measuring effectiveness. Sales promotion techniques. Issues in global IMC. prereq: MKTG 3011 and MKTG 3041 (or 3010 & 3040) or instructor approval

SCO 3041 - Project Management

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles and methods useful for planning and controlling a project, including development of project plan, resource planning and scheduling, and project monitoring and control. Selected computerized packages are studied, including PERT and CPM, and examples of different types of projects from manufacturing and service industries are used. prereq: 3000 or instr consent

SCO 3056 - Supply Chain Planning and Control

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course teaches the essential tools and tasks to design an efficient supply chain planning and control system, including ERP, integrated business planning, forecasting, inventory management, capacity/production/material planning, and scheduling. Prereq: 3001 or instr consent

MGMT 4001 - Social Venturing in Action

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BA4000/MGMT4000/MGMT4001
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Capstone course. Students choose projects with nonprofit organizations in local communities. Readings/discussions tie managerial theory to experiences. The focus of this course is on sectors of the economy that provide goods and services with motivation beyond generating profits for investors. The non-profit sector and impact-related for-profit organizations are a large, growing, and increasingly entrepreneurial part of our economy. Non-profit administration and social entrepreneurship require knowledge of subjects unique to this sector. This class will provide a basis of knowledge about these issues from the standpoint of practitioners and researchers. Because the landscape of the non-profit and impact-related for-profit world is broad, one seminar course cannot possibly cover all of the important and interesting issues in this field. In this course, we will focus our attention by exploring a number of issues that involve the intersection of the for-profit and the not-for- profit economies. prereq: Senior standing

MGMT 4044 - Negotiation Strategies

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of negotiation as the art and science of securing agreements between two or more interdependent parties seeking to maximize their own outcomes. The concepts you learn and the skills you develop in this class will apply to both your work and personal negotiations. At the heart of this class is the idea that the best way to learn to negotiate is by engaging in negotiation and then rigorously analyzing your experience. Therefore, this course is designed to be a highly interactive learning experience. The role of the course instructor is to help you get the most out of this experience by selecting relevant and compelling exercises and readings, as well as by facilitating engaging and meaningful discussion of class negotiations, negotiation research and best practices.

MGMT 4100 - Topics in Management

Credits:	2.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics vary for each offering.

MGMT 4175W - New Business Feasibility and Planning (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	03099
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the following insights into ? Techniques for developing and screening business ideas ? Criteria for properly assessing idea feasibility ? Equipping yourself with the necessary information and analysis to develop a useful business plan ? Preparing an effective business plan ? Effectively pitching the plan to stakeholders, primarily prospective investors The class makes use of lecture, videos, articles, cases, class exercises, assignments, and quizzes to help develop depth of understanding amongst students of the relevant subject matter of this course. prereq: MGMT 3010 or MGMT 3015 or IBUS 3010

MGMT 4171W - Entrepreneurship in Action I (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Two-semester course. In fall, students identify a business oportunity, develop concept, determine resources required, and launch the business. In spring, students implement business plan, manage business, and determine exit strategy. prereq: 3010, [4008 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 4008], completed coursework in business core, CSOM upper division, approved application

MGMT 4172 - Entrepreneurship in Action II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Second of two-semester sequence. In fall, students identify business opportunity, develop concept, determine resources required, and launch business. In spring, students implement busienss plan, manage business, and determine exit strategy. prereq: 4171

MGMT 4080W - Applied Technology Entrepreneurship (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Mgmt 4170/Mgmt 4177/Mgmt 5177
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Team projects based on commercializable technologies or innovations. Teams present their ideas to investors and industry professionals. Students are encouraged to submit their business plans to Minnesota Cup.

BA 4503 - Carlson Ventures Enterprise

Credits:	2.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BA 4503/MBA 6503
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Carlson Ventures Enterprise (CVE) is intended for highly-motivated entrepreneurially minded graduate and undergraduate students who seek opportunities to develop creative problem solving and critical analysis skills to aid in better identifying, creating, and evaluating any new business opportunity, whether a start-up, social venture or innovation initiative inside a Fortune 500 company. CVE?s comprehensive curriculum includes the best practices, frameworks, and tools used in entrepreneurial and innovative pursuits. In a teach-then-apply environment, students manage client based projects solving real-world problems in real time, whether helping an entrepreneur develop their new business or an established organization evaluate opportunities for growth. CVE fits with multiple degree plans, in multiple schools at the University, as either a requirement, an elective or a capstone. This course will meet with MBA 6503. Registration for this course is by permission only. prereq: approved application

DES 2701 - Creative Design Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This class is an introduction to a variety of tools and methods used in developing new products, services, and experiences. The focus of the class is on the early stages of design which includes user research, market research, idea generation methods, concept evaluation, concept selection, intellectual property, and idea presentation. Students will learn the divergent and convergent design thinking process to frame problems, and generate, refine, and communicate ideas. Students work individually and in groups applying the content taught in lecture to multiple assignments and a semester-long design project.

PDES 3711 - Product Innovation Lab

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PDes 3711/PDes 5711
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

A hands-on experience in integrated product design and development processes. Elements of industrial design, engineering, business, and humanities are applied to a semester-long product design project. Cross-functional teams of students in different majors work together to design and develop new consumer product concepts with guidance from a community of industry mentors. prereq: PDes 2772 OR Junior/Senior (any major) or permission from instructor

ANTH 4121 - Business Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 4121/Anth 5121
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Anthropological/ethnographic understandings/research techniques.

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Entrepreneurial Management Minor