ENTR 425: Entrepreneurial Leadership
Prerequisite: None
Credit Hours: (3)
Helps students develop the knowledge and competencies required to be effective entrepreneurial
leaders.
Note(s): Applied Learning designated course.
Detailed Description of Content of Course
Organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal using proactive entrepreneurial
behavior by optimizing risk, innovating to take advantage of opportunities, taking
personal responsibility and managing change within a dynamic environment. Such leadership
aims to cultivate entrepreneurial individuals and teams that fully leverage their
creative potential.
Outline of Major Topics:
•Risk-Taking - Propensity for well-calculated and prudent ‘risk-taking’; the willingness
to face uncertainties and venture into ambiguous areas despite risk of failure.
•Proactiveness - Being active in creating and leading toward the future by exploring new opportunities rather than passively waiting to be affected by it.
•Innovativeness - Tendency to think creatively and develop novel and practical ideas relating to opportunity recognition, resource utilization and problem solving.
•Stakeholder Enactment - Influencing and inspiring a group of competent and committed supporters to enact the envisioned future while specifying personal limitations.
•Active Learning – Iteratively develop and test assumptions about problems, customers, stakeholders, and solutions. Rapid response to validated/invalidated results in ongoing change experiments.
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
The course will use a mixture of lecture, discussion, and active learning.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
•Critically examine and apply key frameworks, theories and models relating to standard and complex entrepreneurial leadership, including leadership as a form of stakeholder service
•Think creatively to identify opportunities and develop innovative strategies that simultaneously create positive social and economic outcomes.
•Develop novel and practical ideas relating to opportunity recognition, resource utilization and problem solving.
•Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of networking and describe effective networking strategies
•Develop and communicate visions that influence and inspire stakeholder commitment.
•Demonstrate an understanding of how to organize and lead innovation teams
•Iteratively develop and test assumptions about problems, customers, stakeholders, and solutions
•Identify practices that facilitate sustainable change in today's uncertain environment and increasingly diverse workplaces
•Explore effective leadership approaches reflecting the interplay of values, ethics,
corporate culture and governance structures
Assessment Measures
Various measures such as exams, projects, case studies or other assignments will be
used.
Other Course Information
None
Review and Approval
DATE ACTION APPROVED BY
Fall 2010 Reviewed by Management Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
03/2011
March 01, 2021