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The hybrid Master of Science in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the University of Oklahoma is designed to provide a comprehensive educational experience for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. This forward-thinking program explores the principles, strategies, and best practices that drive successful business ventures and foster a culture of innovation within organizations. With guidance from esteemed faculty and access to a diverse network of entrepreneurial professionals, graduates emerge equipped with the knowledge, skills, and connections necessary to spearhead new ventures or lead innovation within established corporations.
Program
Overview
The hybrid Master of Science in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the University of Oklahoma is designed to provide a comprehensive educational experience for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. This forward-thinking program explores the principles, strategies, and best practices that drive successful business ventures and foster a culture of innovation within organizations.
With guidance from esteemed faculty and access to a diverse network of entrepreneurial professionals, graduates emerge equipped with the knowledge, skills, and connections necessary to spearhead new ventures or lead innovation within established corporations.
Offered through OU’s nationally ranked Price College of Business, this AACSB-accredited program provides a comprehensive education in entrepreneurship and innovation, preparing you for success in diverse career paths.
Gain Invaluable Industry Insights
Benefit from the expertise of industry-experienced faculty who are also entrepreneurs and can provide you with deep insights into the challenges and intricacies of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Tailor Your Education with Specialized Tracks
Choose from two tracks – New Venture Development or Corporate Innovation – to align your studies with your specific career goals and aspirations, whether starting your own business or driving innovation within an existing corporation.
Build a Powerful Professional Network
Connect with entrepreneurially-minded peers, experienced mentors, and industry experts through the program's hybrid delivery model, fostering invaluable networking opportunities essential for success.
Develop Risk Management Expertise
Master the tools and strategies to assess, manage, and mitigate risks associated with innovation and entrepreneurship, ensuring you're equipped to navigate the complexities of starting or growing a venture.
Experience an Immersive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Participate in a one-week in-person residency rooted in Oklahoma's thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, providing hands-on learning experiences and access to resources like the Tom Love Innovation Hub, Startup OU, and OK Catalyst.
Program
Requirements
This hybrid degree blends in-person residencies and network with online learning coursework. This program is 30 credits and can be completed while you work in as few as 12 months.
RESIDENCY WEEK
MODULE 1
MODULE 2
MODULE 3
MODULE 4
MODULE 5
MODULE 6
RESIDENCY WEEK
The primary purpose of the course is developing an understanding of innovation and change management skills and processes, (by focusing on the interrelated concepts of Innovation, Change, & New Value Creation) and applying this knowledge to fostering the creation of new value. Students will also be exposed to real world entrepreneurial ecosystems (Oklahoma City and Tulsa) which are designed to enable innovation and entrepreneurship.
To lead ventures in new or established organizations, cultivating entrepreneurial leadership is essential. This requires leaders to expand their worldviews and continually learn to better lead themselves and others. Entrepreneurial leadership involves a mentality of coordinating resources by collaboratively turning problems into opportunities. Entrepreneurial leaders value character, relationships, curiosity, communication, action, and the processes by which impactful outcomes are achieved.
MODULE 1
Innovation & Entrepreneurship offers MBA candidates the opportunity to understand how starting your own business can alter your life’s path. The course offers an overview of the concepts and tools of entrepreneurship involving 1) finding or creating opportunities 2) critical success factors in the creation of new ventures and 3) the significance of entrepreneurship for economic development.
Students will learn to construct and analyze financial statements of for-profit corporate enterprises. The basic accounting model including financial statement recording and preparation will be covered. A major emphasis will be placed on using financial statements for decision making by investors, creditors, and other users. Basic ratio analysis and valuation concepts will be introduced.
MODULE 2
The focus of Product Design and Development is integration of the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the firm in creating a new product. It is expected that each student will prepare for and attend all of the class sessions and will regularly enhance class discussions. Most important though are substantial and continuous contributions to the progress of the team project. Experience with project-based design courses is that students often develop high expectations for their projects and devote substantially more time than is required by the instructor
ENT 5990 – Independent Study
Contracted independent study for a topic not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. Independent study may include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.
MGT 5702 – Organizational Behavior
Concepts and theories of organizational behavior and human resources management for MBAs.
MODULE 3
Strategic Communication challenges students to master writing, listening, presentation, and interpersonal skills to lead in business environments. Students will develop strategies to promote engagement and loyalty with internal and external stakeholders. Emphasis is placed on credibility management, audience analysis, research, revision, and rehearsal to equip students for professional success.
Corporate Entrepreneurship is about understanding how and why some firms can maintain their entrepreneurial spirit, competitiveness, and growth, whereas others cannot. It is about creating work environments where innovation is the norm, where employees are encouraged to work entrepreneurially, where leadership is supportive (not controlling), and where firms are organized to take advantage of opportunities.
The course will challenge students to look beyond traditional business practices by using entrepreneurial principles to create public good. The design of the course assumes that entrepreneurs are powerful agents of social and economic change who, if properly harnessed, can drive a sustainable economy and environment as well as improve the equity, health, and wellbeing of the population.
MODULE 4
The goal of this course is to provide a working knowledge of fundamental concepts in financial management and the ability to apply these concepts to real-world problems. The student should learn the following subjects: time value of money, interest rates, risk and return, stock and bond valuation, cash flow analysis, and capital budgeting.
This is a graduate-level course on the economics of innovation. The ultimate learning objective of this course is to improve students’ analytical skills and critical thinking in topics that relate to the key determinants of innovative activities in modern economies and the implications of innovation for growth and development.
There is broad agreement that human activities are changing the natural environment. In addition, overconsumption of resources and benefits supplied by natural ecosystems is affecting the foundation of human activity. Institutions, organizations, and individuals have prescribed “sustainability” to cure these ills. Sustainability is typically said to represent the synergy of economic, environmental, and societal goals, but this definition is deceptively straightforward. Consensus in favor of continued human existence on our planet is simple to achieve. Recognizing, understanding, and affecting the complex and interdependent systems that will make this possible is much more challenging, thought-provoking, and fascinating.
MODULE 5
Entrepreneurship is about the identification and enactment of entrepreneurial opportunities. This class is about evaluation of technology and commercialization, opportunity feasibility analysis, initial industry and market analysis, designing and writing a quality business plan, full industry and market analysis, development of sales and distribution structures, resources and financial capital requirements, selling a venture concept to potential investors, oral presentation skills, and compete in business plan competitions.
Focuses on growth processes and systems, attracting the right people, managing cash-flow, shareholder decision-making; financial and market-driven options for long-run competitiveness, organizational structures, and management team issues; strategic planning from a resource-based perspective; transition planning for the corporate entity, family dynamics and communication issues; and leadership empowerment.
MODULE 6
ENT 5141 – Entrepreneurial Law
This course will provide the entrepreneur with a working knowledge of certain essential substantive areas of the law and the ability to work with and use lawyers effectively. The focus will be on the practical legal considerations in forming and sustaining an entrepreneurial enterprise, including entity organization, securities law, operational liabilities, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property law.
ENT 5990 ENT Independent Study
Contracted independent study for a topic not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. Independent study may include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.
This course will provide the entrepreneur with a working knowledge of certain essential substantive areas of the law and the ability to work with and use lawyers effectively. The focus will be on the practical legal considerations in forming and sustaining an entrepreneurial enterprise, including entity organization, securities law, operational liabilities, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property law.
ENT 5990 ENT Independent Study
Contracted independent study for a topic not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. Independent study may include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.
Review of the American legal process and ethical frameworks for gauging business decisions.
MODULE 1
MODULE 2
MODULE 3
MODULE 4
RESIDENCY WEEK
MODULE 5
MODULE 6
MODULE 1
Students will learn to construct and analyze financial statements of for-profit corporate enterprises. The basic accounting model including financial statement recording and preparation will be covered. A major emphasis will be placed on using financial statements for decision making by investors, creditors, and other users. Basic ratio analysis and valuation concepts will be introduced.
Corporate Entrepreneurship is about understanding how and why some firms can maintain their entrepreneurial spirit, competitiveness, and growth, whereas others cannot. It is about creating work environments where innovation is the norm, where employees are encouraged to work entrepreneurially, where leadership is supportive (not controlling), and where firms are organized to take advantage of opportunities.
The course will challenge students to look beyond traditional business practices by using entrepreneurial principles to create public good. The design of the course assumes that entrepreneurs are powerful agents of social and economic change who, if properly harnessed, can drive a sustainable economy and environment as well as improve the equity, health, and wellbeing of the population.
MODULE 2
The goal of this course is to provide a working knowledge of fundamental concepts in financial management and the ability to apply these concepts to real-world problems. The student should learn the following subjects: time value of money, interest rates, risk and return, stock and bond valuation, cash flow analysis, and capital budgeting.
This is a graduate-level course on the economics of innovation. The ultimate learning objective of this course is to improve students’ analytical skills and critical thinking in topics that relate to the key determinants of innovative activities in modern economies and the implications of innovation for growth and development.
There is broad agreement that human activities are changing the natural environment. In addition, overconsumption of resources and benefits supplied by natural ecosystems is affecting the foundation of human activity. Institutions, organizations, and individuals have prescribed “sustainability” to cure these ills. Sustainability is typically said to represent the synergy of economic, environmental, and societal goals, but this definition is deceptively straightforward. Consensus in favor of continued human existence on our planet is simple to achieve. Recognizing, understanding, and affecting the complex and interdependent systems that will make this possible is much more challenging, thought-provoking, and fascinating.
MODULE 3
Entrepreneurship is about the identification and enactment of entrepreneurial opportunities. This class is about evaluation of technology and commercialization, opportunity feasibility analysis, initial industry and market analysis, designing and writing a quality business plan, full industry and market analysis, development of sales and distribution structures, resources and financial capital requirements, selling a venture concept to potential investors, oral presentation skills, and compete in business plan competitions.
Focuses on growth processes and systems, attracting the right people, managing cash-flow, shareholder decision-making; financial and market-driven options for long-run competitiveness, organizational structures, and management team issues; strategic planning from a resource-based perspective; transition planning for the corporate entity, family dynamics and communication issues; and leadership empowerment.
MODULE 4
ENT 5141 – Entrepreneurial Law
This course will provide the entrepreneur with a working knowledge of certain essential substantive areas of the law and the ability to work with and use lawyers effectively. The focus will be on the practical legal considerations in forming and sustaining an entrepreneurial enterprise, including entity organization, securities law, operational liabilities, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property law.
ENT 5990 ENT Independent Study
Contracted independent study for a topic not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. Independent study may include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.
This course will provide the entrepreneur with a working knowledge of certain essential substantive areas of the law and the ability to work with and use lawyers effectively. The focus will be on the practical legal considerations in forming and sustaining an entrepreneurial enterprise, including entity organization, securities law, operational liabilities, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property law.
ENT 5990 ENT Independent Study
Contracted independent study for a topic not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. Independent study may include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.
Review of the American legal process and ethical frameworks for gauging business decisions.
RESIDENCY WEEK
The primary purpose of the course is developing an understanding of innovation and change management skills and processes, (by focusing on the interrelated concepts of Innovation, Change, & New Value Creation) and applying this knowledge to fostering the creation of new value. Students will also be exposed to real world entrepreneurial ecosystems (Oklahoma City and Tulsa) which are designed to enable innovation and entrepreneurship.
To lead ventures in new or established organizations, cultivating entrepreneurial leadership is essential. This requires leaders to expand their worldviews and continually learn to better lead themselves and others. Entrepreneurial leadership involves a mentality of coordinating resources by collaboratively turning problems into opportunities. Entrepreneurial leaders value character, relationships, curiosity, communication, action, and the processes by which impactful outcomes are achieved.
MODULE 5
Innovation & Entrepreneurship offers MBA candidates the opportunity to understand how starting your own business can alter your life’s path. The course offers an overview of the concepts and tools of entrepreneurship involving 1) finding or creating opportunities 2) critical success factors in the creation of new ventures and 3) the significance of entrepreneurship for economic development.
Strategic Communication challenges students to master writing, listening, presentation, and interpersonal skills to lead in business environments. Students will develop strategies to promote engagement and loyalty with internal and external stakeholders. Emphasis is placed on credibility management, audience analysis, research, revision, and rehearsal to equip students for professional success.
MODULE 6
The focus of Product Design and Development is integration of the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the firm in creating a new product. It is expected that each student will prepare for and attend all of the class sessions and will regularly enhance class discussions. Most important though are substantial and continuous contributions to the progress of the team project. Experience with project-based design courses is that students often develop high expectations for their projects and devote substantially more time than is required by the instructor
ENT 5990 – Independent Study
Contracted independent study for a topic not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. Independent study may include library and/or laboratory research and field projects.
MGT 5702 – Organizational Behavior
Concepts and theories of organizational behavior and human resources management for MBAs.
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