Innovation, entrepreneurship, and new venture financing

Catalog description

The entrepreneur’s perspective on fostering market-driven product and service innovations and initiating new ventures. Students learn to serve as leaders with the knowledge and management skills to develop, scale and deliver breakthrough solutions to healthcare problems, and write a comprehensive business plan that include the new product or service and its technology innovation, mission and vision of the organization, value proposition, market analysis and marketing plan, pricing, financial analysis and projections, operations and human capital strategies, organizational design, supply chain design and fulfillment plans, compliance and ethical risks, and social and environmental impacts. Students are also prepared to make key decisions on valuating the company, raising money from individual investors, ventral capital or private equity, and structuring funding, employment contracts and exit strategies.