3.0
Credit Hour Courses
BAMG 30505:
MicroVenturing I
BAMG 40580
(419): Family Business Strategy
MGTE 30500 (320): Introduction to Entrepreneurship
MGTE 40508
(420N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship
MGTE 40590 (429): Entrepreneurship Business Planning
2.0 Credit Hour Courses
MGT 70500/70509
(620): Entrepreneurship I
MGT 70550/70559
(620): Entrepreneurship II
MGT 70520
(622): Funding New Ventures
MGT 70530
(623): Legal Issues in Start-Up Businesses
MGT 70540
(624): Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, (Jamaica,
Mexico Ties, So. Africa)
MGT 70560
(626): Venture Capital Fundamentals
1.5
Credit Hour Courses
MGTE 30510:
Entrepreneurship: Go To Market
MGTE 30515:
Topics in Entrepreneurship
MGTE 30520 (422): Funding
New Ventures
MGTE 30530 (423): New Ventures and the Law
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| 3.0 Credit Hour Courses |
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| BAMG 30505: MicroVenturing
I |
The University
of Notre Dame will pioneer a practical approach to creating successful
community based micro-ventures through classroom, workshop, and
in-market exercises. This program will utilize a consortium
of educators, prominent members of both the public and private sectors,
and Notre Dame students in the role of small-business mentors.
In order to realize the potential of microenterprise and social
entrepreneurship as a viable means of poverty reduction in the United
States, the University will commence a two seminar course in the
Mendoza College of Business entitled "MicroVenturing:
The Road to Equality". This course will be available
to undergraduate students and span all colleges at Notre Dame.
The mission of this coursework
is to promote the creation of sustainable communities equipped with
the tools to improve lives and reinforce their commitment to the
betterment of society by equipping college students with adequate
training to make lasting contributions to the creation or expansion
of select small businesses.
The course description
for the Fall semester (Semester 1) is a practical guide for both
business and non-business majors to learn the essential elements
of small business development and social entrepreneurship.
The course will concentrate on defining the role of social entrepreneurship
in solving the larger problems of domestic and global poverty.
The fundamentals of finance, law, marketing, and management will
be introduced and applied to practical projects with the intent
of creating viable business solutions in the marketplace.
- Instructor: Frank Belatti and Jim Davis
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Fall and Spring Semester
- No Prerequisites
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| BAMG 40580:
Family Business Strategy |
This
course will explore and analyze family business continuity challenges,
best management practices, and governance practices. Students
will interview family and non-family members of a family owned business
using questions developed from class materials -- text, cases, discussions,
and readings. The information gathered from these interviews
will provide the issues students will address in a paper submitted
at the end of this course.
- Instructor: David Hayes
- Sample Syllabus
and Schedule
- Offered Fall Semester
- No Prerequisites
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| MGTE
30500 (320): Introduction to Entrepreneurship |
Open to all business undergraduate juniors and seniors.
This course introduces students to the basic concepts and skills required
to understand the nature of entrepreneurship, recognize opportunity,
and assemble the resources to start a new business. Students will
develop a market feasibility study for a new business concept. The
class includes entrepreneur guest speakers, cases, and activities
that will help students experience what it is like to be an entrepreneur.
- Instructor: John Fitzmartin
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Fall and Spring Semesters
- Requirements
- Mendoza College of Business Juniors and Seniors only
- End with feasibility analysis
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| MGTE
40508 (420N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship |
| Open to all non-business
undergraduate juniors and seniors. This course meets the needs of
students who may be interested in owning their own business or who
just want to learn about entrepreneurship. Students develop a market
feasibility study for a new business concept and do an approved
project on some aspect of entrepreneurship. The class includes entrepreneur
guest speakers, cases, and activities that will help students experience
what it is like to be an entrepreneur.
- Sample Syllabus
& Schedule
- Offered Spring Semester
- Requirements
- Non-business junior and senior undergraduates
- Course will culminate with a feasibility analysis
- Include a basic finance and accounting session taught by
Finance Dept. Prof.
- Guest speakers
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| MGTE
40590 (429): Entrepreneurship & Business Planning |
This capstone
course provides the opportunity for students to draw on the many
skills and concepts learned from their business education to develop
a comprehensive business plan for an entrepreneurial start-up endeavor.
The business plan will be written to serve as a financial proposal
suitable for presentation to capital sources, a roadmap for successful
start-up, and as an operating guide for the business.
In addition to the written
business plan, each student will give a 15-minute, oral presentation
of their plan. This oral presentation should be given from
the perspective of an entrepreneur presenting to potential investors.
Students will also present 3-minute "elevator" pitches
designed to highlight major components of their plan.
This course is segmented
into classroom learning, discussion/reporting sessions, individual
research, and coaching sessions.
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Fall and Spring Semesters
- Requirements
- MGTE 30500, (320): Introduction to Entrepreneurship or 40508,
(420N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship (Non-business Majors)
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| 2.0 Credit Hour Courses |
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| MGT 70500/70509
& 70550/70559 (620): Entrepreneurship I & II |
Open to all MBA students. The goals of this course
are to give students a broad understanding of the field of entrepreneurship
and an introduction to the critical tools necessary to create a successful
new venture. This course is designed to stimulate the "real-life"
activities of entrepreneurs in the start-up stage of a new venture
concept and to determine if a demand exists for their product or service.
In the past, several of these concepts have gone on to become actual
businesses. In addition, the course facilitates networking with entrepreneurs
and other students who are considering becoming entrepreneurs.
- Instructor: Gerard Pannekoek
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Fall Semester (Module I & II), Spring Semester (Module
III & IV)
- Requirements
- MBA students only
- End with business plan
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| MGT
70520 (622): Funding New Ventures |
Open to
MBA students. This course examines financing the start-up
of a new venture. The course will include bootstrapping, and
the characteristics and merits of financing with equity and debt,
venture capital and angel funds. Students will learn how to
prepare a financial plan including projecting sales and capital
expenditures and designing pro-forma income statements, balance
sheets, venture sources, applications of funds statements and valuation
techniques.
- Instructor: Mark Noeldner
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Spring Semester
- Requirements
- Non-business - MGT 70508, (620N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship
and intructor's permission
- MBA-Core Finance course or MGT 70500, (620): Entrepreneurship
or instructor's permission
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| MGT
70530 (623): Legal Issues in Start-Up Businesses |
Open to
MBA students. This course examines legal challenges business
persons must address at various stages of the growth of a business.
The central objective of the course is to increase future business
leaders' awareness and understanding of certain core legal issues
they will encounter, and to foster their ability to anticipate and
resolve those issues in a manner that both complies with applicable
laws and achieves core business objectives. Students will
analyze actual business agreements -- e.g. the operating agreement
for a limited liability company, a commercial lease agreement, or
an employment and non-competition agreement -- to increase students'
familiarity with the language of and issues contained in those documents.
Explicit attention will be given also to the effective selection
and management of legal counsel. The legal issues covered in the
seminar will be integrated with one another and connected to the
reality of business decision-making on legal matters through the
application of each such topic to a hypothetical entrepreneurial
client whose founders will be seeking legal counsel from us as a
class.
- Offered Spring Semester
- Sample Syllabus
- Requirements
- Non-business -- MGT 70508, (620N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship
and instructor's permission
- MGT 70500, (620): Entrepreneurship or instructor's permission
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| MGT
70540 (624): Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (Jamaica, Mexico
TIES, So. Africa Programs) |
This course
examines how businesses are launched in different global contexts.
Issues to be discussed include global and national support agencies,
market feasibility and cultural issues. Students become involved
in a particum in which they provide consultative service to a startup
in a third-world country. Please note that this course is
the preparatory course for the Jamaica, Mexico TIES and So. Africa
Programs.
- Offered Spring Semester
- Sample Jamacia Syllabus; Sample Africa Syllabus
- Requirements
- Non-business - MGT 70508, (620N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- MGT 70500, (620): Entrepreneurship or instructor's permission
- By invitation only based on acceptance into the Jamaica,
Mexico Ties or So. Africa Programs
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| MGT 70560 (626): Venture
Capital Fundamentals |
The objective
of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the
methods and approaches used by venture capitalists to evaluate new
business ventures and to develop and negotiate investment terms.
The emphasis on the perspective of the venture capitalist distinguishes
this course from other courses that emphasize the perspective of
the entrepreneur. Most sessions will be led by various venture
capitalists and industry professionals, many of whom are members
of Notre Dame's IrishAngels network. Projects will focus primarily
on seed and early stage business ventures, but the fundamental approaches
and philosophies taught are largely applicable to later stage venture
capital investments.
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Courses |
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| MGTE 30510: Entrepreneurship:
Go to Market |
Even the
greatest ventures fall without effective marketing. This course
is designed to help students build marketing competencies essential
to building and sustaining a new venture. To that end, students
will learn how to identify customer needs, determine correct target
markets and develop sales/marketing tactics and strategies.
The course will also examine new venture scalability, promotion,
distribution and pricing.
- Instruction: John Fitzmartin
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Spring Semester
- Requirements:
- Business undergraduates - MGTE 30500: Introduction
to Entrepreneurship
- Non-business - MGTE 40508: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
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| MGTE
30515: Topics in Entrepreneurship |
Once
launched entrepreneurs must have the ability to manage and sustain
their venture. This course examines effective venture management
and growth. Topics such as cash burn, crisis management and
human resources will be examined. The course will also consider
how the skills of entrepreneurship can be used inside an existing,
legacy business.
- Instructor: Michael Vogel
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Spring Semester
- Requirements:
- Business undergraduates - MGTE 30500: Introduction
to Entrepreneurship
- Non-business - MGTE 40508: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
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| MGTE
30520 (422): Funding New Ventures |
Open to business undergraduate juniors
and seniors. This course examines financing the start-up of a new
venture, from bootstrapping with personal resources or bank debt to
equity investment by angel investors or venture capitalists. Students
will "learn by doing" through active participation in different
scenarios to understand how either side (entrepreneur or investor)
approaches a prospective deal, which will include a due diligence
assessment of the merits and the intrinsic value of a start-up enterprise.
Demonstrating a reasonable working knowledge of the new venture funding
process and the most likely sources of funding for a particular start-up
company will be key objectives of the course.
- Instructor: David Brenner
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Spring Semester
- Requirements
- Business undergraduates - MGTE 30500, (320): Introduction
to Entrepreneurship
- Non-business - MGTE 40508, (420N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship
and instructor's permission
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| MGTE
30530 (423): New Ventures and the Law |
| Open
to business undergraduate juniors and seniors. This course examines
the legal structure options for new ventures, the pros and cons
of incorporating, the requirements, advantages and disadvantages
of sub-chapter "S" election and forming a 501(c) (3) non-profit
corporation. The importance of laws and regulations on all
aspects of a new venture will be explored. Patents, copyrights,
contracts and regulations will also be discussed.
- Sample Syllabus
- Offered Spring Semester
- Requirements
- Non-business - MGTE 40508, (420N): Introduction to Entrepreneurship
and instructor's permission
- Business undergraduates - MGTE 30500, (320): Introduction
to Entrepreneurship
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