This course introduces you to the many facets of entrepreneurship and uncovers the entrepreneurial process. Learn the concepts, skills and alternatives relevant for identifying and evaluating ideas that can become an exploitable business opportunity. By exposing you to a variety of concepts to initiate creative problem-solving abilities and the importance of opportunity identification and evaluation, the course lays the foundation for other entrepreneurial focused courses. Learn about entrepreneurship and innovation in organizations of all sizes and how the trend toward high innovation affects businesses globally. Discover the business and personal challenges of entrepreneurship and the career potential of entrepreneurial business.

This course introduces you to methods and principles of investigation and analysis used in making marketing decisions. Plan and propose studies, gather and analyze data and report results.

Discover diversity competence skill development techniques, strategies and best practices for organizational effectiveness. You learn ways to maximize the power of a diverse workforce and address the issue of effective management of pluralistic perspectives and the impact of diversity on organizational climate and productivity.

Management in organizational settings requires skillful negotiation. In this course, you develop a set of useful negotiation skills and strategies. Through a series of negotiation simulations and debriefings, you learn to identify different types of conflict situations; employ appropriate, purposeful negotiation techniques; and evaluate negotiated outcomes.

Learn how to initiative the entrepreneurial process and increase your ability to recognize or create opportunities for entrepreneurial endeavors. In this course, you learn how to formulate an argument to support your idea and critically analyze others’ ideas. Through a variety of hands-on methods, you enhance your critical thinking and practical business skills. Core learning methods include case study analysis and exposure to thought leadership in the field.

In this course, you discover the financial, human resource, operations and marketing issues facing entrepreneurs whose businesses are confronted with significant growth. You learn change management concepts targeted towards managing an organization in extremely turbulent times. This course prepares you to work in fast-growth firms, whether starting your own business or joining an established fast-growth firm.

Learn how to put together a business plan by moving your ideas from concept to business with a variety of tools. Engage in exercises to help you think critically and in a non-linear way about your business idea, including building your own marketing web sites. Use mind mapping and story boarding to work through your ideas. Through evolving and changing your ideas, you learn a process that can be used to build a new business or help an existing organization launch a new idea, service or product line.

This course explains the process by which organizations forecast employment needs, recruit potential employees, select high potential candidates from applicant pools, assess job performance levels, give feedback, train and develop existing employees, and deal with voluntary and involuntary turnover. You will be provided with examples of tools used by HR professionals in the staffing process. You will evaluate and suggest improvements to real HR recruiting and selection systems based on the information learned in the classroom.