Jason Scott Earl

Courses Taught

  • Entrepreneurial Managment
  • New Venture Creation
  • Business Fundamentals
  • Introduction to Business
Entrepreneurial Managment

Our highest aspiration for students who take Entrepreneurial Management is that they will learn how to teach and learn through the Learning Model approach in the course. Students should also develop the power to innovate with scarce resources as we study the skills of the Entrepreneurial Manager. The expectation for students who take this course is that they will be able to: 1) make decisions that lead to action and 2) innovate with a defined set of entrepreneurial skills.

Make Decisions that Lead to Action: The Entrepreneurial Management course was created to help students learn how to integrate the functional analysis of management (financial, operational, organizational, and marketing) into decisions that lead to action. The entrepreneurial context then becomes a powerful setting for developing these skills because a new venture will not move forward without managers making decisions that lead to action. Students should be able to a) understand the decision making process, 2) develop good analysis, and 3) communicate and defend a solid recommendation to key stake holders (senior management, team members, or investors).

Demonstrate Entrepreneurial Skills: Beyond the action orientation of the course, there are a defined set of entrepreneurial skills students that help us innovate with scarce resources.

New Venture Creation

The course is designed as an introduction to the process of perceiving an opportunity and creating an organization to pursue it. Working alone and in teams you will learn to plan, finance, launch, manage, and harvest a new venture. In order to integrate ideas across departments and colleges, this course will be open to students in engineering, computer science, and business management.

All students who desire to lead a business plan team will have an opportunity to describe their ventures in the early class sessions to facilitate team member recruiting. Class discussion, readings, lectures, and projects are learning tools. Your project is developed throughout this course and involves completing a new venture plan and financial forecast. Each team’s business plan also becomes a “live case” for the purposes of class discussion.

Business Fundamentals

This course provides an overview of the core functions of business, including product development, marketing, operations, human resource management, accounting, finance, and international business. This will be accomplished primarily by managing an on-line simulated business where students will learn to make fundamental management decisions required to effectively run a $50 million dollar corporation. This course is designed to provide students exposure to the various career opportunities in business and also recommended for non-business students interested in gaining an overview of business management, leadership and small business entrepreneurship.

Introduction to Business

This course provides an overview of the core functions of business, including product development, marketing, operations, human resource management, accounting, finance, and international business. This will be accomplished primarily by managing an on-line simulated business where students will learn to make fundamental management decisions required to effectively run a $50 million dollar corporation. This course is designed to provide students exposure to the various career opportunities in business and also recommended for non-business students interested in gaining an overview of business management, leadership and small business entrepreneurship.

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