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Entrepreneurship and Strategy - MNGT5392
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Faculty: Australian School of Business
 
 
School:  AGSM MBA Programs
 
 
Course Outline: AGSM website
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Restricted to Full Time MBA and MBA/LLM students
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Summary of Course

The MBA Program in Entrepreneurship and Strategy is a program for individuals formulating, developing and commercializing ideas. This innovative program provides exposure to both the fundamentals of business and the practical aspects of identifying, evaluating, and moving business ideas forward. The program uniquely combines current students with innovators, VC groups, and successful CEOs.

A hands-on opportunity to learn about venture creation, resourcing, strategy and management, involving group work on a real venture and culminating in a pitch for resources to senior investors and entrepreneurs.

Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses

Entrepreneurial ventures are responsible for a significant share of growth, employment and value add in the economy. Entrepreneurial skills can be used to launch companies, revive acquired businesses, create new growth and cultural change within corporations and achieve significant social outcomes.

Entrepreneurship in a flat world involves taking on the additional challenges of growing businesses across different cultures and managing a diverse mix of activities. Specific objectives of this course are:
  1. Impart an understanding of the key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and ventures
  2. Inspire participants to establish or support ventures, based on a realistic view of the benefits and tradeoffs
  3. Impart skills in identifying and evaluating opportunities, developing strategies for growth and securing the resources required
  4. Learn directly from successful entrepreneurs about the issues they confronted, approaches they took and managing the consequence
This dynamic course pulls together many of the components already learned in the MBA program, providing those with entrepreneurial aspirations the opportunity to realise their dreams.

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