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Department Head: Dean
Professors: Desplaces, Money, Sobel
Associate Professors: Dean
Alvah C. Chapman Chair of Management and Ethics: Fontana
Assistant Professors: Bezjian, Sharma
Instructors: Fontana, Swartwood

Overview

The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship offers those who pursue a major through the department an opportunity to prepare themselves deliberatively, rationally, and intentionally to develop careers as principled leaders in their future endeavors. Engagement in management and entrepreneurship classes within the department prepares students to lead diverse individuals, recognize opportunities, and make sound critical decisions as they proceed in their career.

The Department offers a major in management. The Department is also responsible for two minors: business administration and entrepreneurship. The curriculum builds the basics of business fundamental knowledge, ethical decision-making and allows students to recognize the trends of today’s business environment. Students are exposed to a unique blend of classroom and applied experiential learning opportunities to aid them in selecting and helping prepare them for their chosen career in today’s dynamic economy.

As a principled manager and entrepreneur, students will develop the knowledge and skills to build trust, inspire commitment, lead change, work in and lead teams, harness people’s creativity and enthusiasm, recognize opportunities, find shared vision and values, share authority and responsibility.

The program provides content and guidance regarding how to assess the moral and ethical dimensions of business decisions in a principled manner. All students in the Management and Entrepreneurship Department are strongly encouraged to do an industry internship-this is supervised work experience related to their desired career objective.

Innovation Lab

The Department oversees the Baker School of Business Innovation Lab - a small operation with a large undertaking as it operates as an idea hub for entrepreneurially-minded students across campus. The Lab’s mission is to “create principled change agents of innovation that solve complex problems.” To achieve this, we teach students to think creatively using a variety of means to solve problems of all sizes.

Programs

• Management Major

• Business Administration Minor
• Entrepreneurship Minor

Courses

• BANA 101 - Principles of Business Analytics
• BANA 201 - Applied Business Analytics
• BLAW 301 - Legal & Ethical Environment of Business
• BLAW 303 - Commercial Law
• BLAW 311 - Principles of Real Estate

• ENTR 301 - Principled Entrepreneurship & the Free Enterprise System
• ENTR 401 - Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship
• ENTR 411 - Technology & Entrepreneurship
• ENTR 421 - Applying Innovation
• ENTR 470 - Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
• ENTR 480 - Undergraduate Research in Entrepreneurship
• ENTR 490 - Independent Study in Entrepreneurship

• MGMT 301 - Principles of Management
• MGMT 303 - Management & Organizational Behavior
• MGMT 307 - Leading Inclusion & Diversity
• MGMT 311 - Human Resource Management
• MGMT 313 - Leading Teams
• MGMT 315 - Management of Change
• MGMT 411 - Business Ethics
• MGMT 421 - Management Information Systems
• MGMT 431 - International Business
• MGMT 449 - Strategic Management
• MGMT 460 - Business Internship
• MGMT 470 - Special Topics in Management
• MGMT 480 - Undergraduate Research in Management
• MGMT 490 - Independent Study in Management

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