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  • 1.  Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Posted 07-25-2014 12:55

    Greetings!


    Do non-business students perform significantly worse than business students in an entrepreneurship minor? We are considering implementing a minor in entrepreneurship that would be open to both business and non-business students, and a number of our faculty members have expressed concerns about the possible poor performance of non-business students. Our initial research suggests that this may not necessarily be  the case, but I would love to hear from those of you with more experience in this area.


    Thanks in advance!


    Sincerely,

    Lois


    Lois M. Shelton

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    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor|Department of Management

    Faculty Coordinator | Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA @ CSUN
    18111 Nordhoff Street | Northridge, CA 91330-8376

     

    P (818) 677-3313 | F (818) 677-6265

    lois.shelton@csun.edu | grenobledba@csun.edu

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  • 2.  Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Posted 07-26-2014 18:22
    Lois,

    It depends on how you structure the course and set up assignments. In every new course,
    students are "learning" new facts, concepts, and tools that they do not already know.
    Non-business students may not have the background in accounting and financial analysis
    that business students do, but they have some important knowledge and skills that many
    business school students do not typically have.

    If possible, I try to set up teams of B-schools and on B-school students as they can
    learn from each other. The nature of the projects that each is given depends on the
    course involved. Typical projects for KSU's basic MBA E-ship course and our Business
    Plan Development course are provided below and in the attachments, though I am not sure
    that the latter will get through LIST serve, so if you would like more details, e-mail
    me directly. Not" It would not go through with the attachments.

    Sincerely,
    Chuck Hofer
    Kennesaw State University

    Basic E-shop Projects
    COURSE SPECIALIZATIONS
    This is a general course in Entrepreneurship. Most students, however, have some more
    specific interests that they would like to satisfy. Consequently, this course is designed
    so that you can customize your course activities to better fit your specific interests.
    Currently, six different potential types of specialization are possible. All students must
    complete one Course Projects from the ten different types of projects listed below. The
    six types of specializations and projects appropriate for or required of each are as follows:
    (A) The Entrepreneurial Career Specialization Possible Projects: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10
    (B) The Small & Family Business Specialization Possible Projects: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10
    (C) The Corporate Entrepreneurship Specialization Possible Projects: 1, 2, 5, 7, 10
    (D) The New Venture Startup Specialization Possible Projects: 3, 5, 8
    (E) The Venture Capital Specialization Possible Projects 2, 5, 7, 8, 9
    (F) The Venture Capital Competition Specialization Possible Projects: 5, 7, 8, 9

    POSSIBLE COURSE PROJECTS
    Each student must complete, on an individual or small group (2 or 3 persons) basis, one
    course project from the following list of possible projects. You MUST submit your preferred
    project for approval in writing. Once approved, NO CHANGES may be made to your project choice.
    [Note: Most requests are usually approved. Disapprovals are almost always based on an
    assessment that the project cannot be done as proposed.]
    1. A Personal Career Strategy Analysis Paper (Individual)
    An analysis of your personal career goals & objectives, your strengths & weaknesses, and
    the development of a career strategy for the ultimate achievement of your goals & objectives
    based on a series of in-depth interviews with at least six individuals who have pursued
    careers similar to that which you seek to undertake.
    2. An Entrepreneurship Book Review (Individual)
    An analysis & critique of a New Venture, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Family Business,
    and/or Venture Capital book. Each Review must include an executive summary of the book,
    descriptions of other reviews done on the book, a chapter & detailed outline of the book,
    an analysis of the author’s background & experience, a discussion of where the book fits in
    it field, and your assessment of the book’s key contributions.
    3. An Entrepreneurial Networking Key Contact File (Individual or Group)
    The identification & evaluation of 10 to 15 individuals who could be key resource contacts
    should you pursue a career in Entrepreneurship. At least one individual should be included
    from each of the following Entrepreneurship support areas: Accountants, Bankers, Business
    Brokers, Consultants, Lawyers, Technologists, Successful Entrepreneurs, and Venture Capitalists.
    A separate one-page summary Is required for each individual listing their names, address,
    telephone, FAX, and e-mail, as well as their education, experience, and key professional and
    personal interests. [Note: You should conduct in-person interviews with at least half of the
    individuals on your list.]
    4. An Entrepreneurial Biographical Analysis (Individual or Group)
    A description and analysis of the career of an entrepreneur in whom you are interested that
    describes the evolution of his/her career, and the key factors that have made him/her as
    successful or unsuccessful as s/he was.
    5. A New Venture Feasibility Analysis & Business Plan (Group)
    An analysis of whether a specific new venture idea is a market opportunity that could be
    successfully commercialized in the real world. This analysis should include the identification
    of specific target customers for the venture products (or services), the major benefits the
    venture would provide these customers, and its sustainable competitive advantages vis-a-vis
    its primary competitors. The Business Plan would incorporate these analyses into a plan for
    commercializing the idea and would also include analyses of the methods used to manufacture
    and distribute its products, the team who would launch the venture, and the capital needed
    for this launch.
    6. Small Business Strategic Analysis (Group)
    The identification of a small business that is operating in an industry in which you are
    interested, together with an analysis of the overall marketing, production, R&D. and financial
    strategies that this firm has followed that are responsible for its successes and/or failures.
    7. New Business Wealth Creation Analysis (Group)
    Each group doing this project must select one publicly owned business started after 1950, and
    then analyze it vis-a-vis the wealth it has created since its founding through the End of Last
    Year. First, all equity investments in the business since its founding must be identified and
    then “adjusted” forward to the End of Last Year using the discounting factor table handed out
    in class. Second, all cash dividends paid out to shareholders since its founding must also be
    identified and adjusted forward to the End of Last Year. Third, the company’s total market value
    for each year in which it was publicly owned needs to be calculated and then restated in 2000
    dollars. The Total Net Worth Created by the business should then be completed using the following
    formula:
    Total Net Wealth = Total Market - Total Market
    Created (in years 1 to x) Valuation (in year x) Valuation (in year 1)
    + Cash Dividend Paid - New Equity Investments
    (years 1 to x) (years 1 to x)
    The results should be plotted on a graph from the year of founding through the End of Last Year.
    An analysis should also be made to identify the causes of any major changes in the rate of Wealth
    Creation over time.
    8. Business Plan Observation & Review of 2 Plans (Individual)
    To develop skills in the evaluation of new venture opportunities, each student selecting this
    option MUST OBSERVE ALL of the Presentations made by ALL of the Business Plan teams taking MGMT
    8545 this Semester. You MUST then Critique the Presentations made by two Teams in Writing.
    Two copies of each of these Write-ups must be submitted within 10 days of the Presentation, one
    to the team and one to me.
    9 Special Entrepreneurship Research Projects (Individual or Group)
    Entrepreneurship is a field in which knowledge of a variety of specialized topics is essential
    to ultimate success. These include, but are not limited to, intellectual property, legal forms
    of organization, venture capital, and family business. If you would like to study an issue and/or
    topic in one if these areas, or in a new area relevant to the field of Entrepreneurship, you
    should write it up and present for review and approval. Note: Most, though not all, such projects
    are approved.


    BUSINESS PLAN DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENTS
    Assignments Due Date Received Returned
    1 Business Concept Description Class 3
    2 Team Task Responsibility Assignments Class 3
    3 Revised Business Concept Description Class 4
    4 Product & Competitive Advantages Class 5
    5 Target Market Analysis Class 6
    6 Customer Buying Process Analysis Class 6
    7 Competitor Strengths & Weaknesses Class 7
    8 Marketing Strategies & Tactics Class 8
    9 New Product Development Plans Class 8
    10 Operations Strategy & Systems Class 9
    11 Management & Key Advisers Class 10
    12 Financial Strategies and Policies Class 11
    13 Pro-Forma Cash Flows, Net Income
    Statements & Balance Sheets Class 12
    14 Ownership Structure
    & Valuation Analysis Class 13

    15 Vision, Mission, & Startup Strategies Class 14
    16 Key Risks & Contingency Plans Class 15
    17 Future Growth & Development Class 15
    NOTE: All Items in Bold Must Be Turned in by the Team Captain.
    All Items in Bold Italics MUST BE SIGNED BY ALL TEAM MEMBERS


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Lois M Shelton" <lois.shelton@CSUN.EDU>
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 12:55:08 PM
    Subject: [ENTREP] Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Greetings!


    Do non-business students perform significantly worse than business students in an entrepreneurship minor? We are considering implementing a minor in entrepreneurship that would be open to both business and non-business students, and a number of our faculty members have expressed concerns about the possible poor performance of non-business students. Our initial research suggests that this may not necessarily be the case, but I would love to hear from those of you with more experience in this area.


    Thanks in advance!


    Sincerely,

    Lois

    Lois M. Shelton
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    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor|Department of Management
    Faculty Coordinator | Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA @ CSUN
    18111 Nordhoff Street | Northridge, CA 91330-8376

    P (818) 677-3313 | F (818) 677-6265
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  • 3.  Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Posted 07-26-2014 20:37

    Hello Lois (and everyone else),

     

    I understand the concerns that non-business students will struggle relative to business students, particularly on business concepts related to accounting, finance, etc.  In brief, however, we have seen several benefits (e.g., diversity of perspective, addition of arts or science skills to the program) from having non-business students in our entrepreneurship programs.  I provide more details below, but if you're interested in our entrepreneurship or social entrepreneurship minors, the Program of Study are available at:

     

    Entrepreneurship minor: http://bit.ly/BrockENT

    Social entrepreneurship minor: http://bit.ly/BrockSE

     

    Details:

     

    We have now had an entrepreneurship minor for non-business students for a year, so we have limited data on these students' performances.  We have, however, had a social entrepreneurship minor since 2008, so I can provide some greater detail on their performance. 

     

    The way that we have overcome the issues with both our minors having limited business backgrounds is

     

    •  have them take our freshman-level business class (BUSA 100) where we put them in teams with our pre-business students and have them work on a preliminary business plan.  This is also the first business class for our pre-business students, too, so they really don't have an advantage over non-business students.  They all work (some of them might say struggle) together to learn and apply the business concepts we teach.  Fifteen weeks later, however, they deliver a 40+ page business plan (see an example here, http://bit.ly/Destinationstation) and have a pretty solid grounding in business topics.  The top teams also move into our business plan competition, which has a separate BUSA 100 division.
    • take introductory courses in accounting, economics, and other business topics (see the Programs of Study above).   We've found they need the accounting/finance perspectives.
    •  take a junior-level entrepreneurship class (ENTR 304) where we loan them each $100 to start a "microbusiness" for the semester.  The non-business majors often leverage their artistic or scientific knowledge when starting these businesses, and it provides them some great experiential learning in issues like cash flow.
     Our social entrepreneurship minors have performed very well over the years.  For example, we provide a social entrepreneurship fellowship to our top students every year, and invariably, we have nonbusiness students earn fellowships.  These students have also gone on to work in non-profit and socially missioned for-profit organizations around the world after graduating.

     

    As I mentioned, we have more limited data on our entrepreneurship minors, given that we just added the program last fall.  In some anecdotal evidence, though, we had a entrepreneurship minor (biology major) win first place in our annual business plan competition this year (details at http://bit.ly/SZtI9E).

     

    Please contact me directly if you have any questions.

     

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Franz T. Lohrke
    Brock Family Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing
    219 DBH
    Brock School of Business
    Samford University
    800 Lakeshore Drive
    Birmingham, AL 35229
    Office: (205) 726-2373
    Fax:  (205) 726-2464
    http://faculty.samford.edu/~ftlohrke/  

    Secretary, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
    http://division.aomonline.org/ent/  
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    From: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] on behalf of Shelton, Lois M [lois.shelton@CSUN.EDU]
    Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:55 AM
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Greetings!


    Do non-business students perform significantly worse than business students in an entrepreneurship minor? We are considering implementing a minor in entrepreneurship that would be open to both business and non-business students, and a number of our faculty members have expressed concerns about the possible poor performance of non-business students. Our initial research suggests that this may not necessarily be  the case, but I would love to hear from those of you with more experience in this area.


    Thanks in advance!


    Sincerely,

    Lois



    Lois M. Shelton

    --------------------------------------------------------

    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor|Department of Management

    Faculty Coordinator | Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA @ CSUN
    18111 Nordhoff Street | Northridge, CA 91330-8376

     

    P (818) 677-3313 | F (818) 677-6265

    lois.shelton@csun.edu | grenobledba@csun.edu

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  • 4.  Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Posted 07-27-2014 04:20
    Lois

    A lot of this depends on how you are structuring your minor.  Are you structuring your entrepreneurship minor like "business light"? Or are you truly trying to tap into entrepreneurial competencies. At our California Entrepreneurship Educator's conference last year, I asked Mike Morris to do a closing keynote address.  If you remember, he made a distinction between business competencies and entrepreneurial competencies.  Business competencies focus on the core aspects of starting, running and managing a business (which will encompass competencies in financial accounting and cash flow analysis and logistics etc.).   Entrepreneurial competencies focus on things like recognizing and assessing opportunities, conveying a compelling vision, leveraging resources, building and maintaing social networks etc.  I don't think that business students have a competitive advantage when it comes to building entrepreneurial competencies. 

    Your colleagues are thinking strictly of the "start-up" context and therefore believe that any entrepreneur needs to be exposed to basic business competencies.  This is going to be the source of the resistance you will be experiencing from business colleagues from other disciplines. My argument is that with a cross-campus business minor, you are trying to expose non-business students to the entrepreneurial mindset which could be enacted in a multitude of contexts besides the startup scenario.  

    Hope this helps. I am happy to sit down with you to show you how we designed our cross campus minor.   The first thing that happened once we announced it, was that the school of Music asked us to create a new specialization in Music Entrepreneurship!  It is very exciting!.  I wish you the best. 

    Alex


    On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Shelton, Lois M <lois.shelton@csun.edu> wrote:

    Greetings!


    Do non-business students perform significantly worse than business students in an entrepreneurship minor? We are considering implementing a minor in entrepreneurship that would be open to both business and non-business students, and a number of our faculty members have expressed concerns about the possible poor performance of non-business students. Our initial research suggests that this may not necessarily be  the case, but I would love to hear from those of you with more experience in this area.


    Thanks in advance!


    Sincerely,

    Lois


    Lois M. Shelton

    --------------------------------------------------------

    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor|Department of Management

    Faculty Coordinator | Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA @ CSUN
    18111 Nordhoff Street | Northridge, CA 91330-8376

     

    P (818) 677-3313 | F (818) 677-6265

    lois.shelton@csun.edu | grenobledba@csun.edu

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  • 5.  Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Posted 07-28-2014 10:49

    Hi to everybody, at our college, we offer different kind of entrepreneurship courses to all under grade students, business and others, like engineering, art, lawyers, medicine, visual communicators, etc.

     

    Our experience had been very good, the non-business students, are frequently more motivated to learn, and really are able to do an special effort to understand and learn concerning economics terms and business concepts. Their compromise often is bigger and academic results better too.

     

    Best regards!

     

     

    Maria del Pilar Gómez Vallejo.

    Asistant  Entrepreneurship Professor

    Management Department.

    Economics And Administration Faculty

    Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

    Cali- Colombia.

     

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    De: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] En nombre de Shelton, Lois M
    Enviado el: viernes, 25 de julio de 2014 11:55 a.m.
    Para: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Asunto: [ENTREP] Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

     

    Greetings!

     

    Do non-business students perform significantly worse than business students in an entrepreneurship minor? We are considering implementing a minor in entrepreneurship that would be open to both business and non-business students, and a number of our faculty members have expressed concerns about the possible poor performance of non-business students. Our initial research suggests that this may not necessarily be  the case, but I would love to hear from those of you with more experience in this area.

     

    Thanks in advance!

     

    Sincerely,

    Lois

     

    Lois M. Shelton

    --------------------------------------------------------

    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor|Department of Management

    Faculty Coordinator | Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA @ CSUN
    18111 Nordhoff Street | Northridge, CA 91330-8376

     

    P (818) 677-3313 | F (818) 677-6265

    lois.shelton@csun.edu | grenobledba@csun.edu

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  • 6.  Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program

    Posted 07-29-2014 00:22

    Greetings!


    I just wish to thank everyone who has taken the time to share their experiences and insights. I will be sharing your collective wisdom with my fellow committee members as we move forward.


    Sincerely,

    Lois



    Lois M. Shelton

    --------------------------------------------------------

    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor|Department of Management

    Faculty Coordinator | Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA @ CSUN
    18111 Nordhoff Street | Northridge, CA 91330-8376

     

    P (818) 677-3313 | F (818) 677-6265

    lois.shelton@csun.edu | grenobledba@csun.edu

    --------------------------------------------------------

    From: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv <ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Shelton, Lois M <lois.shelton@CSUN.EDU>
    Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 9:55 AM
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [ENTREP] Performance of Non-Business Majors in an Entrepreneurship Minor Program
     

    Greetings!


    Do non-business students perform significantly worse than business students in an entrepreneurship minor? We are considering implementing a minor in entrepreneurship that would be open to both business and non-business students, and a number of our faculty members have expressed concerns about the possible poor performance of non-business students. Our initial research suggests that this may not necessarily be  the case, but I would love to hear from those of you with more experience in this area.


    Thanks in advance!


    Sincerely,

    Lois


    Lois M. Shelton

    --------------------------------------------------------

    Lois M. Shelton, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor|Department of Management

    Faculty Coordinator | Grenoble Ecole de Management DBA @ CSUN
    18111 Nordhoff Street | Northridge, CA 91330-8376

     

    P (818) 677-3313 | F (818) 677-6265

    lois.shelton@csun.edu | grenobledba@csun.edu

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