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NYU Abu Dhabi
Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship:
The courses in this pre-professional area are designed for students to study the dynamics of social innovation, organizational change, and transformative leadership — with a particular focus on the not-for-profit and government sectors.
NYU Abu Dhabi
LEAD-AD 212 Special Topics in Leadership and Social Innovation:
This course is taught by leading management and policy scholars from around the world who are in residence in Abu Dhabi. The content is oriented toward the scholar’s expertise and the evolving landscape of leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
NYU Abu Dhabi
ENGR-UH 1021J Design and Innovation:
The course introduces students to concepts of innovation, sourcing, shaping, and evaluating ideas and inventions. The labs require students to use existing innovations to create and build prototypes of new technology/design products, with real-life constraints.
NYU Abu Dhabi
CADT-UH 1005 Creativity and Innovation:
The heart of this course is the Personal Creativity Project – an opportunity for students to actively practice creativity by designing and executing a project of their choice. Students will develop a personal creativity philosophy, based on the fusion of readings, study, discussion, and experience.
NYU Abu Dhabi
LEAD-AD 501 Entrepreneurs in Training:
The purpose of the course is to enable student entrepreneurs to research and develop a viable, realistic business proposal for a start-up company in the UAE. An inaugural, NYUAD Entrepreneurs in Training Advisory Board has been commissioned to guide and evaluate the progress of the business proposal.
NYU Abu Dhabi
SRPP-AD 122 Entrepreneurship:
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. We then focus on research on entrepreneurship using secondary sources and data available through the internet.
NYU Abu Dhabi
LEAD-AD 300 Business Acceleration and Disciplined Entrepreneurship:
The course provides a framework for teams to move from an idea about a product or service to forming a viable company. Our 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.
NYU Abu Dhabi
LEAD-AD 115J Critical Issues in Social Entrepreneurship: Innovations in the Middle East:
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).
NYU Abu Dhabi
ENGR-AD 297J Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
The course helps students gain the tools and knowledge to develop a comprehensive new venture that is scalable, repeatable and capital efficient.
NYU Abu Dhabi
LAW-AD 224J Law in Entrepreneurship:
The course provides students with the fundamental and practical knowledge of legal competitiveness for enterprises and will introduce them to a broad range of legal issues encountered by founders and business executives and will also help them develop a set of analytical perspectives for making judgments when such issues arise.
