All graduate courses

The following entrepreneurship courses are available to graduate students.

BusM 490R — Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
In this class, students learn how to develop, use, and protect intellectual property assets. Doing so can result in great rewards, while not doing so can contribute to significant lost opportunities. Students will also learn how to avoid infringing the intellectual property rights of others. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 490R — Entrepreneurial Perspective
This course discusses successful entrepreneurs and how they live: headed by Keith Hunt. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 538 — Managing Entrepreneurial Firms and Family Businesses
This class addresses the issues and problems facing managers of entrepreneurial enterprises and leaders of family-owned businesses. Includes start-up, growth, and exit strategies. Consulting project required. (Fall and Winter)

EMBA 471 — Entrepreneurial Perspective
This course discusses successful entrepreneurs and how they live: headed by Keith Hunt. (Fall and Winter)

ISys 590R – Mobile Application Development
Students learn how to develop applications for one of the leading mobile platforms such as Android or iOS. Prerequisites include ISys 403 and ISys 413 or equivalent. (Winter)

MBA 590R — Managing New Ventures
This class focuses on how to operate and grow high-tech or growth businesses after an initial idea and funding has been secured. Although this course focuses on the post-idea phase of entrepreneurship, the course is relevant for students with or without their own venture idea. The perspective and skills developed in this course should prepare students for a broad range of careers, including joining an existing startup to "apprentice" with an experienced entrepreneur, managing corporate ventures/initiatives or entering a professional services career such as consulting and investment banking. (Winter)

MBA 590R — Knowledge Brokering
Knowledge brokering is the process by which successful, serial innovators achieve commercial success. In this class, students adopt the role of knowledge brokers for campus, learning who knows what, seeking out great ideas, and combining those ideas to innovate. Students will learn entrepreneurship by mentoring student teams in developing their ideas and launching their ventures. (Fall)

MBA 590R — Business Plans
In this class, student entrepreneurs learn the fine points of developing business plans as well as launching and managing their new ventures. This class is particularly focused on preparing students for the BYU business plan competition. Students receive mentoring that will accelerate the maturation process of their ventures. (Fall)

MBA 654 — Sales/Marketing Management

MBA 671 — Entrepreneurial Perspective
This course develops the awareness of and ability to apply existing knowledge about entrepreneurship to make better decisions when starting, growing, and harvesting business ventures. Visit Masters of Business Administration. (Winter)

MBA 676 — Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Creating and capturing value through innovation by developing skills for choosing innovation projects, organizing knowledge for innovation, and capturing value from innovation. (Winter)

MBA 679/EMBA 679— Creating and Managing New Ventures
This course focuses on the key issues faced by entrepreneurs in new ventures and small businesses; taught in five modules: Strategy Formulation, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Practical Issues; involves lecture discussions, guest lectures by a variety of entrepreneurs and interactive case discussions with the entrepreneurs involved in the case. Students will also develop a Business Plan. Visit Masters of Business Administration. (Fall and Winter)

MBA 693R — Entrepreneurial Business Strategy

MBA 693R — Entrepreneurial Policy

MBA 693R — Entrepreneurial Finance

MBA 693R — Entrepreneurial Marketing

Org B 531 — Managing Entrepreneurial Firms and Family Businesses
This class addresses issues and problems faced by managers of entrepreneurial enterprises and leaders of family- owned businesses. It is designed to help students understand the role of the entrepreneur in creating and managing an enterprise as well as the dynamics related to family involvement in the ownership and management of a business. Visit Masters of Organizational Behavior. (Winter)