(Part-Time) Academics

Concentrations

MBA concentrations utilize elective coursework allowing students to focus and direct their academic program toward their professional interests. Areas of concentration include:

• Business Process Integration
• Corporate Finance
• Entrepreneurship
• Investment Management
• Management Information Systems
• Risk Management
• Supply Chain Management

Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Concentration helps to prepare graduates to operate their own venture, pursue entrepreneurial opportunities in established organizations and to evaluate the potential of a venture from an investor's perspective as well as a potential owner. Topics covered include:

• Opportunity identification and analysis
• Gathering resources, launching a business and managing growth
• Determination of the individual skills needed to start an entrepreneurial venture
• Conducting feasibility analyses
• Development of sales and distribution structures
• Long- and short-term investment decisions
• Intellectual property assessment
• Resources and the nature of financing entrepreneurial ventures
• Designing and writing a quality business plan
• Harvesting a business
• Consulting projects with entrepreneurial firms