Ideation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

BUS 100  Introduction to Business

This course will introduce students o the functional areas of business in a variety of organizations and allows students to explore future possibilities. This course is mandatory for all business students.

BUS 201  Entrepreneurship: Creativity, Design and Innovation

This experiential and case-based course will identify barriers to individual and group creativity, approaches for overcoming these barriers, and methods for generating ideas that solve commercial, operational and/or institutional problems.

BUS 302 – Entrepreneurship: Small Business Modeling and Feasibility Analysis

This course addresses early stage elements of starting up and operating a small business on a conceptual level. Using cases, competitions and experiential exercises, students will learn opportunity alertness and identification, building a value proposition, testing business hypotheses, creating competitive advantage, setting up financials, analyzing break even, charting growth and planning for exit. Students develop, build and test an entrepreneurial opportunity they identify, and assess its feasibility. The course applies to all business start up including non profit, for profit, for benefit and corporate or institutional intrapreneurship.

ADMN 225  First Nations Economic Development

This course is designed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to band entrepreneurial development undertaken by government agencies, research and planning groups, band organizations, band councils, and individual band entrepreneurs. Problem areas and alternative approaches will be investigated in relation to the physical and social environments, external factors, and the socio-cultural environment.

301BUS 301 – Negotiation

This course will develop a student’s understanding of the principles, strategies, and tactics of effective negotiation and professional relationship management. Students will learn to identify and assess the variables in negotiations, develop sound negotiation planning techniques, and develop an understanding of various strategies and tactics to ethically resolve conflicts and interpersonal differences.

BUS 303 – Small Business Start-Up and Management

Using a multi-period entrepreneurship simulation, students establish and manage a small enterprise. Topics include: characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, recognizing opportunities, legal forms and environments, financing, marketing, financial management, operations, human resources, using boards and advisors, deciding to startup, buy or franchise, and managing growth, transfer or exit.

BUS 394 – Entrepreneurial Finance

This course analyzes how entrepreneurs and their financial backers can spot, create and manage value. Start-up and early-stage ventures have particular financial challenges associated with the uncertain and unproven nature of the project. Topics include sources of capital, cash flow forecasting, sensitivity analysis, valuation methodologies, financial contracts and careful negotiations, and different strategies for growing or exiting a venture.