BUSO 758C

This course explores the skills, techniques, and strategies that are required to instill entrepreneurial behavior in large organizations. The class explorers current concept on how organizations "venture" by creating a new business within their organization and how these organizations find and groom individuals to take on the role of Intrapreneurs", the corporate equivalent of the entrepreneurs. Students are encouraged to review their own experiences with the organizations they are currently with or have been to contribute to discussions on various aspects of Corporate Entrepreneurship. At the core of the assignments is a real-life effort to describe, define and structure a corporate venturing system for an organization of the student's choosing (mostly their current organization). The class will also discuss and explore the obstacles and mistakes that the organization faces when trying to become more "intrapreneurial" and why intrapreneurs are still a rare but thought-after breed of employees. Depending on the student's backgrounds, the class can extend the venturing concept to government organizations.