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56A/B
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Entrepreneurial Skills Development-A/B
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This is a two-semester deeply experiential and transformative learning experience for Entrepreneurship Majors. Students work in a team to develop hands-on skills within Toronto's entrepreneurship ecosystem. This group project may be a new company, social innovation, or entrepreneurship within an existing venture. Individually, students deepen their entrepreneurial skills to deliver an Individual Opportunity Portfolio and an Individual Business Plan suitable for a potential new venture during their capstone ENT 78A/B course.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: (ENT 526 and ENT 601); Antirequisite: ENT 726
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GPA Weight: 2.00
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78A/B
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Entrepreneurial Organizational Appraisal-A/B
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ENT 78A/B is the capstone for the entrepreneurial major. The first half of this year-long field study course will provide the skills necessary to appraise an entrepreneurial organization. Students will develop an understanding of what drives an entrepreneurial venture, and how such an organization is built and managed. Students will review and evaluate the technologies, processes, capabilities, competencies, functions, and financial and market performance of an entrepreneurial organization. The second half of the course builds on the appraisal of the first half. Students will have an opportunity to develop a plan to implement the conclusions based on the entrepreneurial organizational appraisal, to persuade the entrepreneurial organization to adopt their conclusions, and to help create change within the organization. Students will develop an understanding of the decision-making process that is involved in producing change in an entrepreneurial organization, and have an opportunity to work on the implementation process. Formerly ENT 730 plus ENT 830.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: (ENT 527 and ENT 601) or (ENT 56A/B and ENT 527 and ENT 577)
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GPA Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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500
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New Venture Startup
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This introductory course is designed primarily for non-business students who are interested in starting a business of their own. Topics included assessing entrepreneurial potential, opportunity identification, market assessment, organizing, promoting, and financing the business, intellectual property, buying an existing business or considering a franchise. Students will be expected to work on developing a business plan. This course is not available to programs within the Ted Rogers School of Management, with the exception of Retail Management.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Antirequisites: ENT 726 and RTA 913 (formerly BDC 913)
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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501
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Family Business in Canada
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Planning, Succession and Control. The students study many of Canada's internationally known family-run businesses. They will learn about the challenges faced by the owners in planning and succession as well as the impact that family structure plays in determining the future of the firm. Key issues to be examined include the relationship between ownership and management, the strategic planning process, succession planning, technical and management skills, support structures, funding, leadership and the family structure.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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Billing Units: 1
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505
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Small-Business Management
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This course takes an interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges of managing in a small-business environment. It is designed for students who plan to join a small or medium-sized enterprise company and want to have an improved understanding of the process by which things get done in small businesses that lack the resources and capabilities of large corporations. Topics include elements of managing high growth rates, family business, outsourcing, internships and leveraging external partnerships, guerilla marketing techniques, cash flow management, bootstrap financing, government programs, and corporate governance in a small business. This course is not available to programs within the Ted Rogers School of Management.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: BSM 200; Restriction: Not available to students in programs within the Ted Rogers School of Management
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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511
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Funding New Ventures
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Entrepreneurial finance is concerned with financial decisions of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms, capital structure decision-making and governance issues in high risk environments, and the ways to exit venture investments. The rapid development of private equity and venture capital industries, and the general emphasis of entrepreneurship as a central driver of economic prosperity, has given rise to a set of questions that are different from the questions posed in the context of large firms with widely diversified investors. This course will address these questions using both explicit-knowledge lectures as well as tacit-knowledge experiential learning. This course is designed for students who are thinking about pursuing a career as an entrepreneur or who envision a career in the private equity, venture capital, or investment banking industries where they will be exposed to deals with small to mid-sized firms.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: FIN 401; Antirequisite: FIN 510
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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526
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Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Strategy
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This foundation course is designed to stimulate the student's interest in entrepreneurship, thereby cultivating the entrepreneurial spirit. By means of case studies, articles, videos and presentations, students will have the opportunity to learn about many prominent entrepreneurs who have demonstrated commitment, passion, risk-taking, strategic thinking and implementation, and the ability to develop core competencies as they create and grow their successful enterprises. Various topics in entrepreneurship will be introduced as a result.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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527
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Studies in Entrepreneurship
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This course will expose the student to many of the topics currently dominating the study of entrepreneurship. These may include theoretical perspectives on the economic and social function of entrepreneurs, psychological and cognitive aspects of entrepreneurs, the intersection of opportunities and enterprising individuals, the decision to exploit, the new venture creation process, and the relationship between entrepreneurship and strategic management. Students will be expected to read and critically analyze current and classic research on entrepreneurship, to synthesize diverse perspectives, and to contribute their own original thoughts to significant debates in the field. The course features a combination of seminars, presentations, readings, and lectures to enhance the student's understanding of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline, and develop an ability to apply this research to the practical managerial challenges of the entrepreneurial firm.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: ENT 526
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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555
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Managing Small and Medium Enterprises
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This course is designed to examine the requirements of establishing, owning and successfully operating a Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME). Functional management skills needed for the effective operation of a SME will be explored in detail. Fundamental considerations such as operations management, information and information systems, value chain analysis, talent management, financial planning and control systems, organization and legal issues, network management and marketing strategies will also be explored in the specific context of SMEs.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: ENT 526 and ENT 601
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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577
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Entrepreneurial Selling
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Students are introduced to the principles of sales and their application to multiple entrepreneurial contexts. Emphasis will be placed on the application of sales principles to real-world entrepreneurial situations and on building selling skills through class projects. Students will learn tactical selling skills, develop self-management skills, and study strategic selling techniques. Sales ethics will also be discussed.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: ENT 526
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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601
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Identifying Opportunities
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This course examines the process of opportunity identification for both start-up and existing business environments. It is designed to cultivate the mindset and skills required for students to engage in opportunity identification activities and make them part of their daily regiment in their personal and professional lives. The entrepreneurial process begins with the pursuit of a perceived opportunity. As such, the ability to identify a valid opportunity is paramount to the field of entrepreneurship.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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627
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Social Entrepreneurship and Changemaking
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This experiential learning course empowers students currently engaged within a social entrepreneurship or changemaking project with additional educational content and coaching. Students form multi-disciplinary teams to empower others through the positive power of entrepreneurship.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Departmental consent required
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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633
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Corporate Governance
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This course is jointly offered by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy and the Department of Law and Business and is structured to provide students with exposure to the evolving issues in corporate governance post-Enron. The role of the corporate board of directors and investors has, and continues to evolve. Institutional investors have taken a more active role in monitoring the firms they invest in. The board has become more involved in the affairs of the firms they govern. Management is in the process of adjusting to these new realities but also deal with uncertainty; the boundaries are blurred and still shifting as to exactly what is the appropriate level of board involvement and to what extent should investors exert their influence and on what matters.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: LAW 122
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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725
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Management of Innovation
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This course is designed to illustrate how successful managers implement innovation and commercialize new technology in today's fast-paced business environment. The students will learn how entrepreneurship and innovation interrelate, the streams of innovation, innovation as a management process and leadership in managing creativity. Commercializing technology and introducing it into the marketplace will be examined in depth as an example of applying the innovation concepts learned in the course. The course will develop the student's creative instincts and improve their capacity as agents of change within their career as independent business owners or intrapreneurial managers in larger organizations. (Formerly MGT 725)
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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726
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Creating a Business Plan
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The objective of this course is to have the student become familiar with preparing a professional business plan for a new venture. The preparation of the business plan will be built upon everything that has been learned to date and will require the synthesis of this learning. The course will provide the student with the opportunity to explore and investigate a business venture of interest and the preparation of a business plan will provide an opportunity to apply what has been learned in the business program. The student will also develop an appreciation for the requirements of a successful entrepreneurial venture. (Formerly MGT 726).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Antirequisites: ENT 500 and RTA 913 (formerly BDC 913)
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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727
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Applied Research in Entrepreneurship
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This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to conduct applied research in the area of entrepreneurship and enterprise development. Students must present a written proposal to an amenable faculty advisor prior to the commencement of the semester. Upon completion, an oral examination or presentation to a panel will be required. (Formerly MGT 727).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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