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Clever:
Couch Review: Sabai Essential Sectional
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Wrapbook:
Announcing Our Series B of $100M
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News12 The Bronx:
Brooklyn Heights native's company Cresilon creates gel to stop bleeding
Tandon School of Engineering
CP-UY 2013 UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP I:
Work with industry-changing startups at the Data, Urban, and Veterans Future Labs that closely align with your interests and skills. You will join founders and teams in supporting cutting-edge technology shaping the NYC entrepreneurial ecosystem. Earn credit and take another step towards graduation, gaining valuable experience. The Internship program, led by Data Future Lab Managing Director Craig Wilson, gives you an opportunity to earn 3 academic credits.
Shanghai
IMBX-SHU 241 Creative Learning Design (Offered Fall '23):
This practical, hands-on course will explore questions such as: How can we design engaging, creative learning experiences that are relevant to the cultural goals and needs of today's youth in China, while laying the foundation for creative learning for the workforce of tomorrow? What are engaging, effective creative learning resources, and how are they best implemented in Chinese learning settings? How can we take advantage of young people's near ubiquitous love of the arts to facilitate creative learning?’ In this course, students will work in teams to design digital learning resources and experience designs at the intersection of music, coding, arts, and technology.
Shanghai
BUSF-SHU 366 Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: Fintech (Offered Fall '23):
In this class, we will focus on the key technologies in the fintech landscape. Starting from the mid 1970's, we will cover major innovations such as the introduction of options markets, index funds, and securitizations. We will then discuss new advances in fintech including digital asset management, lending platforms, and blockchain. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding why some innovations take off, while others languish. Prereq: Foundations of Finance Fulfillment: This course satisfies BUSF Finance elective; BUSM Non-Marketing elective; IMB Business elective.
Shanghai
BUSF-SHU 361 Entrepreneurial Finance (Offered Fall '23):
This course seeks to provide an understanding of the financial and transactional skills that are required to fund new businesses and mature firms. The course will integrate both an academic and practitioner view of the challenges facing entrepreneurs and investors involved in business start-up, venture capital, and private equity investment activities. Prereq: None Fulfillment: This course satisfies BUSF Finance elective; BUSM Non-Marketing elective; IMB Business elective.
Steinhardt
EDST-UE 1503 Education and Social Entrepreneurship:
Innovative solutions in education are emerging from the private sector every day. Business ventures from Teach for America to Khan Academy are changing the way teachers are prepared, the way students learn, and the way institutions use data. These ideas are started by “social entrepreneurs,” people who try to improve lives through solutions that have a market and customers. Students in this course learn about social entrepreneurship, how to identify critical issues in the education-related space, and how to develop their own entrepreneurial solutions accordingly.
Wagner School of Public Service
PADM-GP 4321 Operating Social Enterprises:
This course will provide a comprehensive overview and step by step approach to the most critical aspects of operating social enterprises. This course will put students in the shoes of the social entrepreneur, social enterprise or operations manager, using detailed examples and activities from a real-world social enterprise, as well as best practices from targeted case studies addressing key course topics. For this semester, the course will feature the Professor’s experience with building and operating a social enterprise in the peanut agricultural value chain in Haiti. Student practice and assignments will be informed by actual datasets and mini-case examples from this social enterprise.
Wagner School of Public Service
MHA-GP 4833 Entrepreneurship for Healthcare Organizations:
This course is for current and future healthcare 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.
