An in-depth understanding of how to market a business plan and raise capital to launch new ventures. Topics include capital alternatives, confidentiality, meeting analysis, finalizing agreements, and shareholder alternatives. The course requires the design of a venture that contains multiple approaches for investment. Workshop exercises cover methods of negotiating initial investment, management control, and forecasted return-on-investment.
Cybersecurity Strategy and Executive Response
This course enables students to understand the impact of IT on an organization’s transformative objectives. Students learn how to integrate IT as the key driver for business process change and for continuous improvement in incremental gains and for selective reengineering to effectuate substantial breakthroughs in process performance. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of how technology can have a push-effect on an organization’s processes and of the factors that must be in-synch to facilitate such an effect, e.g., organizational desire for change, corporate culture, and the strategic role that IT leaders must play in working together with the lines of business to effectuate this change.
In this course, students will comprehend the fundamental principles of these new technologies and how to strategically apply them to drive innovation, create efficiencies, and generate new opportunities in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. It offers students the opportunity to understand the factors fueling the adoption of these technologies including the exponential growth of data, the decline in trust post-financial crisis, the desire for data ownership, growing regulatory transparency requirements, the need for greater efficiencies, and the required protection of sensitive data. The evolution goes beyond the implementation of new processes, decentralized business models and technologies. The convergence of new technologies and interdisciplinary innovation drive the requirement for changes in regulatory processes, governance, and ethics.
This course is designed for graduate students who aspire to lead in the era of digital transformation. It is ideal for those who seek to understand the strategic applications of blockchain, AI, and Web 3.0 technologies to drive innovation within their organizations. Whether planning to advance in a career in technology management or a professional in data and knowledge-driven industries, this course will enable the acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary to navigate and leverage the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
This course requires you to experience firsthand a program-related job in a real working environment. You will engage in personal, environmental and organizational reflection. The ideal Internship will provide you an opportunity to gain tangible and practical knowledge in your chosen field by taking on a position that is closely aligned with your coursework and professional interests. Before registering for this course, you must have completed the Internship Application Form in which you will describe your internship sponsor and provide details about the work that you will be doing. This form must be signed by your internship supervisor and approved by your program director BEFORE you register for this course.
To receive instructor approval, the internship:
● Must provide an opportunity for the student to apply course concepts, either at the organizational or team level
● Must fit into the planned future program-related career path of the student
You must identify your own internship opportunities. The internship must involve a commitment to completing a minimum of 210 hours over the semester.
At the end of your course, you will submit an evaluation form to your internship supervisor. The evaluation form should be returned directly to the instructor