Entrepreneurship

Abstract: This course provides an introductory overview of the knowledge and skills needed for the identification, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities in a variety of circumstances and environments. The course focuses on developing a proactive and effectual way for individuals and organizations to determine and pursue their goals. We train individuals to seek innovation (Are we doing the right things?) rather than optimization (Are we doing things right?). The course is integrative and multi-disciplinary. The course emphasizes the ways that entrepreneurs think about their situations, and how their mindset affects their ability to find opportunities. Entrepreneurs are optimistic, so students explore how optimism can be learned and applied. We study how entrepreneurs are embedded in a "social structure of opportunity" and students learn and apply networking skills as a way to find and pursue opportunities in their social networks.

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