[BusinessGrad] FW: Summer courses and MBA concentrations

[Gambrell, Elizabeth]

Hello!

Please read the e-mail below from Dr. Lohrke regarding some of the MBA electives offered this summer.

Have a great day!

Elizabeth Gambrell
Assistant Director of Academic Programs
Graduate Business

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Hello everyone,

As you begin considering possible summer courses, I would like to encourage you to think about the benefits of adding a concentration to your MBA program.  By taking just one extra course, you can change your MBA degree from a general ("plain vanilla") graduate business degree to one that shows you focused in a particular discipline.

The Brock School currently offers three concentrations: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Finance.  Most people have a pretty good idea what the last two involve, so I wanted to make a pitch for the Entrepreneurship concentration.  I also wanted to let you know about a recent change that makes adding this concentration easier.


1.       Most people think they should only take Entrepreneurship if they plan to start their own business.  However, Entrepreneurship is not so much an academic concentration as it is a skill set and a mindset.

Thus, I would suggest that this would also be a good concentration for anyone interested in leading innovation in a large company (as well as those interested in starting their own business).  Large companies that remain innovative (like Google, 3M, and Apple) are the ones that continue to grow.   In fact, we will probably change the name of the concentration to Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation to better reflect this focus.

For example, writing a business plan is a skill that people need if they start a business or advocate for entering a new market/launching a new product in large businesses.  In addition, an entrepreneurial mindset is valuable regardless of a person's career path (see http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228176).


2.       We are in the process of officially changing the requirements for the Entrepreneurship concentration (These changes, however, go into effect immediately...we'll just handle them case-by-case for individual students).


*         Currently, students have to take ENTR 531 and ENTR 555, plus one approved elective.


*         Going forward, students will have to take ENTR 531 OR ENTR 555, plus two approved electives.


Core courses and approved electives we're offering this summer include:


*         ENTR 543: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Summer II)


*         ENTR 555: New Venture Business Planning (If you've already taken ENTR 531, you can now take ENTR 555 as one of your electives for the concentration).  We'll meet M/W for 5 weeks in Summer I (June 1st -July 6th).  The major deliverable (a business plan or consulting project), however, won't be due till August 8th.



*         ENTR 597: Project Management (Summer I, online).  Note: This course also counts toward the Marketing or Entrepreneurship concentration.

Please contact me (ftlohrke at samford.edu<mailto:ftlohrke at samford.edu>) or Elizabeth Gambrell (eagambre at samford.edu<mailto:eagambre at samford.edu>) if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Franz Lohrke

Franz T. Lohrke
Brock Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship
Department Chair
Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing Department

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