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Stern School of Business
MGMT-GB 3335 Foundations of Entrepreneurship (Offered Fall '23):
This course offers a framework for understanding the entrepreneurial process and exposes the student to most problems and issues faced by entrepreneurs who start new ventures. Case study is the principal teaching method supplemented by lectures, a venture planning exercise, and guest speakers. Major objectives are for students to learn how to identify and evaluate market opportunities; develop a venture concept and marketing plan; assess and obtain the required resources; and manage the launch of a new venture.
Stern School of Business
MGMT-GB 3333 Business Start-Up Practicum:
This course seeks to provide an understanding of business planning techniques that transform ideas into viable commercial businesses Students will conduct the market organizational operational strategic and financial analyses that are required to produce a venture concept and an actionable business plan Participants will study firms business planning efforts as well as create a business plan during the practicum the course focuses on these principal themes How do entrepreneurs create business concepts and solve challenges, How does one qualify ideas and strategies in order to effectively select a course of action,How are action oriented plans structured in order to capture opportunity and mitigate risks.
Stern School of Business
MGMT-GB 2353 Managing Change (Offered Fall '23):
Contemporary business environments contain challenges that demand an increasing pace, volume, and complexity of organizational changes. Most organizations, whether they are entrepreneurial start-ups or long-established Fortune 500 firms, find that they must change or wither. This course is geared toward deepening students' understanding of the challenges, techniques, and burdens associated with initiating and implementing major change in an organization. The objective is to prepare managers, or their consultants and advisers, to meet the challenges of organizational change successfully. As such, the course is especially useful for students who plan careers in management consulting, general management (whether in line or staff positions), and entrepreneurship or corporate venturing.
Stern School of Business
BSPA-GB 2314 Business Law (Offered Fall '23):
The objective of this course is to help develop an ability to recognize and understand legal issues in business. This course focuses on the body of law governing the types of issues that students can expect to encounter in their roles as managers of public and private companies consultants and entrepreneurs. Topics for discussion include but are not limited to contract and cyber laws; the various forms of business structures.partnerships corporations and limited liability companies business torts; product liability; and specific issues regarding entrepreneurs and employment law.
Stern School of Business
BSPA-GB 2306 Social Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Food Business (Offered Fall '23):
This course sees the free market as an opportunity to drive change in the food supply chain leading to better public health outcomes and even to serve as a catalyst for policy. As Gary Hirshberg the founder of Stonyfield states we exercise our vote with how we shop This course will make the case that the market for food is still highly inefficient often monopolistic at times and that choice is still limited and hard to fulfill all this against a backdrop where consumer demand for healthier food options is growing dramatically. This is not to suggest that by simply offering healthier food options consumers will choose them. Several recent studies have shown that this does not automatically happen. After all food choices are based on a variety of factors including taste preferences cost effectiveness ease of availability and brand image and messaging. This is where social entrepreneurs can play a pivotal role. Through a mix of passion persistence vision innovation and marketing savvy social entrepreneurs can develop and market desirable products and services that capitalize on this need-gap. They can create new choices serve as economic engines and drive positive public health outcomes all at the same time.
Stern School of Business
BSPA-UB 70 Social Innovation Practicum:
This course is designed to help students gain actionable insights into the nexus between economic and social value creation. Specifically, the purpose is to provide students with hands-on exposure to the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact and innovation. As a result of this course, students will gain: • Increased ability to recognize and critically assess various forms of social enterprise strategies as tools of economic development and social transformation • Greater understanding of the challenges of growing and sustaining a social enterprise, as well as special insights into enterprise development and growth • Improved consulting skills, including project planning, issue and stakeholder analysis, formulation of strategic and tactical recommendations, and client relationship management.
Rory Meyers College of Nursing
NURSE-GN 3360 NYU-X Lab Practicum: Health Technology Education and Innovation:
This research laboratory practicum bridges traditional university silos through transdisciplinary collaboration and experiences on a variety of innovative projects in the NYU-X Lab. The NYU-X Lab allows open access to unique education and research opportunities. The student will join a transdisciplinary team and will work on innovative projects in the areas of health, technology, education, engineering, robotics, product design, policy, and entrepreneurship. Laboratory experiences will be guided by ongoing/available NYU-X projects and the unique learning needs, skills and interests of each student, such as programming, coding or assembly involved in projects (electronic fabrication, system integration, etc.)
Tisch School of the Arts
REMU-UT 1223 Music Contracts & Dealmaking (Offered Fall '23):
The course provides a comprehensive and practical overview of the music contracts that you -- and every artist, musician, songwriter, record producer and other music business professionals -- need to launch and grow an entrepreneurial music venture. Learn proven strategies for navigating conflicts when they arise and how to safeguard your rights and interests in music that you create. Practice and apply newly acquired drafting and negotiation skills to current projects you are working on with personalized instructor and peer feedback.
Tisch School of the Arts
REMU-UT 1164 Advanced Workshop for Music Journalists, Writers, and Curators:
In this intimate upper-level workshop, students with a demonstrated interest in music writing, journalism and/or curation will have the opportunity to draft, write and rewrite clips (reviews, blog posts, artist profiles, interviews, etc.) and have those clips routinely edited by a professional instructor. The objectives of the class are for students to: improve their own writing via detailed professorial line editing and thematic guidance; to learn how to incorporate negative critique and line edits to produce more robust writing samples; and to professionalize their writing by developing a portfolio of competitive writing samples (or a longer, sustained work) that can be pitched and submitted for publication. The workshop is also relevant for entrepreneurial writers, journalists and curators who are in the process of launching writing-centric business ventures (including, but not limited to: ad-supported blogs, online music hubs, documentary video projects or album box sets with a strong written / liner notes component).
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
IDSEM-UG 1527 Finance for Social Theorists:
Why are some private, profit-making institutions “too big to fail?” Where is the Shadow Banking System? What is Minsky moment? The objective of this course is to provide students with conceptual, interpretive and analytical tools to understand finance. The approach is interdisciplinary and interpretive, drawing upon political theory, economics, psychology, basic statistics and accounting. For example, we use the subprime crisis to explore core concepts associated with credit, banking, business ethics, monetary policy and macro economics. We reference key ideas from familiar texts and also take up contemporary debates in finance. The aim is to help students become more literate and numerate as economic and social agents. Readings include Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (excerpts); John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (excerpts); Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk and Nassim Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, as well as journal articles and pieces from the contemporary financial press. There is also an entrepreneurial team project.
