Units: 3

Quarter Offered: Winter

We examine how leaders tackle significant events that occur in high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Students will adapt frameworks and concepts “principles” to their own core values to help prepare their minds for the difficult entrepreneurial situations that they will encounter in their lives – in whatever their chosen career. Students work in teams, using team projects as the basis for class discussion. Each class will typically include a case vignette based on an alumni company, with a distinguished guest speaker. The speaker will discuss not only the business rationale for the decisions taken but also how their principles affected the decision. The class will then apply those principles from the case to one of the team projects. Instructors will facilitate students adapting these principles to their individual styles, providing a foundation for principle-based entrepreneurial leadership. When a company is in its formative years, the entrepreneur is laying down the DNA of the organization. We believe this DNA should be encoded intentionally, with the entrepreneur’s principles as a guide. The teaching team will bring its wealth of experience in both entrepreneurship and VC investing to examine the principles from both of those perspectives. During this course, students will develop an appreciation for how authentic cultures scale and that principles pay. Topics include operational dilemmas, organization building, and investor decisions. Limited enrollment. Admission by application. For graduate and undergraduate students, with a preference for those who have completed one project-based entrepreneurial course or have previous entrepreneurial experience.

Units: 3-4

Quarter Offered: Winter

Problem solving in organizations; creativity and innovation skills; thinking tools; creative organizations, teams, individuals, and communities. Limited enrollment. (Katila)

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Units: 3

Quarter Offered: Winter

We examine how leaders tackle significant events that occur in high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Students will adapt frameworks and concepts “principles” to their own core values to help prepare their minds for the difficult entrepreneurial situations that they will encounter in their lives – in whatever their chosen career. Students work in teams, using team projects as the basis for class discussion. Each class will typically include a case vignette based on an alumni company, with a distinguished guest speaker. The speaker will discuss not only the business rationale for the decisions taken but also how their principles affected the decision. The class will then apply those principles from the case to one of the team projects. Instructors will facilitate students adapting these principles to their individual styles, providing a foundation for principle-based entrepreneurial leadership. When a company is in its formative years, the entrepreneur is laying down the DNA of the organization. We believe this DNA should be encoded intentionally, with the entrepreneur’s principles as a guide. The teaching team will bring its wealth of experience in both entrepreneurship and VC investing to examine the principles from both of those perspectives. During this course, students will develop an appreciation for how authentic cultures scale and that principles pay. Topics include operational dilemmas, organization building, and investor decisions. Limited enrollment. Admission by application. For graduate and undergraduate students, with a preference for those who have completed one project-based entrepreneurial course or have previous entrepreneurial experience.