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Stern School of Business
FINC-UB 62 Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: Fintech (Offered Fall '23):
This course examines the lifecycle of high-growth new ventures (i.e. startups), with a focus on how they are funded. We will follow a successful startup’s path from founding through the stages of new venture finance. These include developing a business plan and its financials, the core skills of valuation, the venture capital industry, and how entrepreneurs and investors realize returns. Through examples of specific companies and technologies, we will also learn about the emerging landscape of financial technology (fintech) startups. We will consider the following subsectors, where startups are either seeking to displace incumbents or sell them their services: personal finance, blockchain, equity crowdfunding, lending (peer-to-peer and AI-augmented), payments, insurance, institutional investment, and money transfer.
Stern School of Business
FINC-GB 3361 Entrepreneurial Finance:
This course identifies and follows the wealth creation cycle that begins with company startups passes through successive stages of various kinds of private equity financing and ends with the harvesting of the created wealth through a sale or merger or initial public offering. Emphasis is placed on how entrepreneurial firms adapt financing and financial contracts to the information asymmetry problems the high degree of uncertainty and the conflicts of interest associated with startups.
Steinhardt
MPAMB-UE 1400 Entrepreneurship for The Music Industry (Offered Fall '23):
Students will acquire a basic framework for understanding the discipline of entrepreneurship & how to apply it to the music industry. The course is organized around the creation, assessment, growth development, & operation of new & emerging ventures in the for-profit music environments. Key concepts will be explored using the case methods.
Rory Meyers College of Nursing
NURSE-UN 1306 Professional Nursing/Social Change: Principles/Practices of Social Entrepreneurship:
The focus of this honors course is to provide highly qualified students with an experiential learning experience to gain the knowledge, leadership skills and attitudes to promote nurses’ contributions to society. The course will use a seminar format to discuss foundational works from the social sciences and nursing to examine the structural and contextual factors that influence social justice, health disparities, and civic engagement in the United States. Students will gain knowledge and skills to develop a business plan and the leadership abilities to improve their effectiveness as agents of social change. Honors scholars will enhance a community partner’s activities by developing a service learning project incorporating the best available evidence. Admission to the honors course is based on a competitive application
Tisch School of the Arts
REMU-UT 1038 Internship/Career Skills for the Music Entrepreneur:
All Recorded Music majors are required to complete at least one internship in order to graduate. Recorded Music majors are required to complete 2 points as part of their Business Area requirements. Please see the ReMu Internship Site for registration information. This course is only for ReMu majors with more than one internship this semester.
Tisch School of the Arts
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
IDSEM-UG 1936 Entrepreneurs, Robber Barons, Salesmen & Frauds: The American Business Tradition:
Throughout American history, the image of business has been fraught with social meaning. Businesspeople appear in the popular imagination as canny, practical geniuses; ruthless autocrats; master manipulators of consumer desire; and con artists, seeking to scheme a gullible public. This course will look at the ways that business people have thought about themselves, the ways that others have seen them and the various ways of considering the social role of business. We will proceed by looking at a different aspect of business history each week, usually through the lens of the biography of a particular individual or company. We will move from slavery and capitalism in the antebellum era, through the railroads of the late nineteenth century, to Henry Ford and mass production, and then consider Wal-Mart, the rise of finance and the business career of Donald Trump
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
CLI-UG 1479 Social Enterprising: Redefining Social Change:
Social entrepreneurs around the world are redefining the way we tackle social problems using effective business acumen and human capital. For these renegades, it is not business as usual, they are breaking out of the old corporate model and are developing new organizational patterns and markets. This course teaches the fundamentals of turning a powerful problem solving idea into a responsible enterprise with a blended social and financial value. From conducting research, community organizing, developing a business plan, crafting a viral marketing and fund raising campaign, and measuring impact, advance students will learn about the essential tools, practices and challenges to develop the capacity and sustainability for a social enterprise. Students are expected to develop and present a project proposal.
Wagner School of Public Service
HPAM-GP 4838 The Making of a Healthcare Entrepreneur:
Sobering fact: 90% of startups fail! Whether you are a founder or working for a founder, you are an innovator and an entrepreneur. The Making of a Healthcare Entrepreneur is the course for current and future health care innovators interested in learning how to exploit gaps and opportunities in the evolving healthcare industry and launch meaningful, valuable companies as measured by customers and investors. It provides innovators with the essential steps needed to take their idea from concept to reality. By using real cases to demonstrate the various paths taken by others, students will not only understand how to start up a company, but they will gain valuable insights into what it takes to succeed with investors, how to build a customer pipeline, and how to avoid pitfalls that can derail a company. The healthcare sector is complex.
Wagner School of Public Service
UPADM-GP 270 Global Social Entrepreneurship: Field Experience:
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an academic overview and direct experience with the issues and challenges in contemporary Global Social Entrepreneurship. This area has become one of the fastest growing segments for business and academic development, and this course is a component of the Minor in Social Entrepreneurship for NYU undergraduates. Both business applications and social entrepreneurship areas will be explored in research, theory and practice during this class, through relevant readings, case studies, discussion and presentations by global social entrepreneurs.
