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Crowell School of Business

MBAD 613 - Biblical Management & Ethics Within the context of Scripture, philosophical and ethical principles are identified, discussed, and applied to business problems and situations including the organization’s obligation to the individual and to society, and the individual’s responsibility to the organization. Restriction(s): M.B.A. students only. Credit(s): 3. MBAD 630 - Entrepreneurial Management I Focuses on the techniques used to create and evaluate new concepts and new business opportunities. Students study the process of feasibility analysis of business ventures from the time of the generation of the concept through critical concept analysis, opportunity screening and pre-feasibility analysis, to the development of the written study. Students prepare a feasibility study as a term project and may use this study as the initial step in writing the Business Plan required in MBAD 635. Students will be integrating biblical values in the creation of an entrepreneurial enterprise. Prerequisite(s): 516. Restriction(s): M.B.A. students only. Credit(s): 3. MBAD 635 - Entrepreneurial Management II This course is considered the conclusion of MBAD 630. Students continue to research and refine their feasibility study and write a business plan to launch their venture. The Crowell School of Business will provide expert resources to critique and assist in the completion of a plan that is soon to be ready for evaluation by the market place. The goal is to prepare students for starting and running successful or emerging enterprises. Students will examine their own strengths and weaknesses to discover in what ways God has called them to be entrepreneurs. Prerequisite(s): 630 and 506. Restriction(s): M.B.A. students only. Credit(s): 2. MBAD 640 - Current & Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurial Studies Elective course in such topics as business as mission, electronic commerce, negotiation & conflict management for the change agent, practical leadership theory, and strategic hiring (how to hire and keep the best partners). Restriction(s): M.B.A. students only. Note(s): May be repeated once with a different topic. Credit(s): 3. MBAD 650 - Directed Study In-depth investigation of a topic under the guidance of the faculty. Credit(s): 1 - 3. MBAD 675 - Strategy & Entrepreneurial Project Management This course focuses on the requirements for sustaining competitive advantage through the entrepreneurial effort, both within existing businesses and where a new organizational entity is required. For this course, the innovative effort will be a project. Students will discover that all projects benefit from strategic thinking as they explore traditional versus radical forms of innovation and learn to consider the economic, legal, financial, human resource, and operational implications of project management. The role of change due to innovation in project management will be explored, as students explore the Biblical implications for both change agents and those organizational stakeholders who are impacted by the change. Prerequisite(s): 601, 604, 605, 608, 609, 630, and 635. Restriction(s): M.B.A. students only. Credit(s): 3.

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