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Seeking feedback on new course in business digitization

  • 1.  Seeking feedback on new course in business digitization

    Posted 07-07-2016 11:15

    Hello everyone,

     

    As July begins, I am wrapping up teaching a 5-week summer Topics course in entrepreneurship that focused on how digitization is affecting business. 

     

    This was a new class where we discussed how the digitization of assets and business processes is affecting business areas like

    ·         entrepreneurship (like lowering industry entry barriers)

    ·         marketing (like making pricing more transparent)

    ·         management (like removing supply chain management links and managing "gig economy" employees)

    ·         finance (like creating virtual currencies and crowd funding)

     

    My goal in teaching the course was to offer an introductory or "principles"-level course in these topics and issues.  Thus, it was meant to a broadly focused course.  Many of the topics we discussed (like the digitization of the supply chain) could have been an entire course.

     

    Based on student feedback and my own learning during the course, I have updated the syllabus for the next time we offer the course.  If you have taught a course like this (or are interested in doing so), I would welcome your feedback on the topics, readings, etc. in the course.

     

    A Word-version of the syllabus (ENTR 407: Topics) is avaiable on my Personal website .


    Thanks in advance for any feedback you provide.  I will be happy to synthesize the feedback and share it with the listserv.

     

    Best regards,


    Franz Lohrke

     

    Franz T. Lohrke

    Brock Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Brock School of Business

    Samford University

     

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    From: "ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Pramodita Sharma <psharma@BSAD.UVM.EDU>
    Reply-To: Pramodita Sharma <psharma@BSAD.UVM.EDU>
    Date: Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 9:01 AM
    To: "ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject: Open access to FBRs Review Issue (March 2016)

     

    FBR related items.....

     

    1.       Open access to the March 2016 – Review Issue of FBR – until August.

    http://fbr.sagepub.com/

     

    2.       FBRs KEY STATS updated: http://fbr.sagepub.com/site/misc/FBR_stats_062016.pdf

     

    3.       Editor search is open – details through link below.

     

    Prof. Lloyd Steier, Chair of the Search Committee will be at AoM for meetings. If interested, please send him a note <lsteier@ualberta.ca>

     

    http://fbr.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/FBR_CFE.pdf

     

    'The Job of a Journal Editor' and more through link below – contents of September 2016 issue:

    http://fbr.sagepub.com/content/early/recent

     

    Please share with interested others.

     

    Hope to see you at AoM in a few weeks!

    Warmly,

    Dita

     

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