ECON-UH 2512 FinTech Innovation: Finance, Technology, Regulation: FinTech innovation is the hottest topic in Financial Services and touches all aspects of industry transformation. Digitizing a financial institution or competing with established players requires an interdisciplinary approach. For FinTech entrepreneurs and investors to be capable of creating or evaluating innovative business models that can generate revenues they need to possess knowledge on 3 key areas: Finance (quantitative methods and behavioral finance), Technology (artificial intelligence, blockchain, API) and Regulation (MIFID2, PSD2, GRDP). In this course we will cover these key three areas and study their implications for FinTech founders and investors, established financial institutions and regulators.

SRPP-UH 1617 Sociology of Entrepreneurship (Offered Fall '23): Entrepreneurship is the principal source of economic development, technological innovation, and creation of wealth and jobs in market economies. This course is concern with entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on the recent work by sociologists and sociologically-oriented organizational theorist that investigates central questions in entrepreneurship. Throughout the semester, we will understand various ways in which the social sciences have provided theoretical insights into entrepreneurial behavior in its broader social, institutional, technological and cross-national contexts. Furthermore, we will also understand entrepreneurship from more practical view by utilizing case studies. Additionally, we will explore timely important topics related to entrepreneurship, and identify sources of data / information during the last few classes.

SRPP-UH 1614 Entrepreneurship: (Formerly SRPP-AD 122) Whether as heroes or agents of creative destruction, entrepreneurs and their innovations have had a transformative influence on modern economic growth and the wealth of nations. The first part of the seminar introduces the classical and contemporary writings on the rise of entrepreneurial capitalism in the West and the global diffusion of modern entrepreneurial spirit and firm. Classical approaches pioneered the study of modern entrepreneurship in its rational orientation to profit making through innovative activity. Contemporary approaches shift the emphasis away from analysis of individual attributes and agency to focus on examining the role of social networks, organizational forms, and institutional environment in facilitating entrepreneurial activity. The last part of the seminar will focus on research on entrepreneurship using secondary sources and data available through the internet.

LAW-UH 2120J Law in Entrepreneurship: Formerly LAW-AD 224J) Law in Entrepreneurship seeks to prepare students for the interconnectedness of global startup organizations and the internal and external legal environments. The course will provide an introduction to entrepreneurial strategy with a focus on law as a basic framework. The course will provide students with the fundamental and practical knowledge of legal competitiveness for enterprises and will introduce students to a broad range of legal issues encountered by founders and business executives and will also help students develop a set of analytical perspectives for making judgments when such issues arise. Students will act in the roles of key decision-makers or their advisors and solve problems related to the development of the competitive advantage of the enterprise in a given market. While the chief concern of those who create and manage businesses of any kind is often in the mechanics of the business itself, law is an integral part of running the machine that is an enterprise. It is law that sets certain standards for the setting in which a business operates and provides the framework to codify the business’ own standards. Thus, insight into the law becomes a significant tool in the business leader’s repertoire. It allows you to be mindful of the business’ limits and knowledgeable about in what manner the business can be strengthened. Students will visit Proctor & Gamble, the Abu Dhabi Courts, and meet the Tourism and Promotion Manager from TCA and speaker at the World Economic Forum

LEAD-UH 3001 Business Acceleration and Disciplined Entrepreneurship: (Formerly LEAD-AD 300) This course provides a framework for teams to move from an idea about a product or service to forming a viable company. Students will walk through initial customer discovery, market size, customer value, marketing to customers and many other areas. The process will allow students to understand their idea, the competitive landscape, the scale and economics of their potential business and have a sense of customer needs as it relates to their product or service.

LEAD-UH 1001J Critical Issues in Social Entrepreneurship: Innovations in the Middle East: Formerly LEAD-AD 115J) Social Entrepreneurship is a dynamic and growing field that may be defined in various ways, yet at its core is about using evolved business thinking and practices to change the world. This course provides an introduction to the topic through discussion of how social entrepreneurs develop their ideas of social and environmental innovation, how they fund/finance their ventures, the ways in which they overcome the challenges of integrating various levels of economic performance with social/environmental impact and the types of organizations social entrepreneurs create (for-profit, non-profit, cooperative, hybrid, etc). Through a "deep dive" case study of a leading social enterprise, Sekem Group in Egypt, students will explore the relevance of social entrepreneurship in a changing world and heighten our understanding of the potential we each hold to be "change makers."

ENGRN-UH 1111J Innovation and Entrepreneurship: (Formerly ENGR-AD 297J) NOTE: This course is open to NYUAD students only. By taking this course, students gain the tools and knowledge to develop a comprehensive new venture that is scalable, repeatable and capital efficient. The course helps students formulate new business ideas through a process of ideation and testing. Students test the viability of their ideas in the marketplace and think through the key areas of new venture. The first part of the course helps students brainstorm about new ideas and test the basic viability of those ideas through of process of design and real world tests. After an idea is developed students work towards finding a scalable, repeatable business model. The course covers customer discovery, market sizing, pricing, competition, distribution, funding, developing a minimal viable product and many other facets of creating a new venture. The course ends with students having developed a company blueprint and final investor pitch. Course requirements include imagination, flexibility, courage, getting out of the building, and passion.

ECON-UH 4050 Capstone Seminar - Entrepreneurship and Finance: By reading and discussing research papers in a specific subfield of Entrepreneurship or Finance students acquire familiarity with current research methods and topics. Topics vary from semester to semester

ECON-UH 3500 Topics in Entrepreneurship and Finance: In this course students work through academic research papers in the area of XX that are closely connected to the research interests of the professor. One of the outcomes is a research proposal that each student prepares. Students can take multiple versions of this course for credit.

BUSOR-UH 1007 Introduction to Entrepreneurship (Offered Fall '23): Introduction to Entrepreneurship is an introductory course intended to provide students with a foundation in terms of the role played by entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in the 21st century global economy. The students will get an understanding of what entrepreneurship is, they will develop entrepreneurial skills and eventually write a real-life business plan, which they can further develop after the course. During this course we will focus on the creation of new businesses, the ways that they come into being, and what determines their success. This course is a mix of theory and practice and also integrates a number of other disciplines such as finance, strategic management, marketing human resource management, economics and psychology.