MBA Entrepreneurship
Program Description:
The MBA Entrepreneurship specialization Globalization combines theory and practical applications from experienced and successful entrepreneurs and academicians to offer practical based learning to develop successful entrepreneurial leaders. This uniqueness of the curriculum shall create and empowers entrepreneurial leaders who have the passion and the drive to develop their skills, knowledge and courage necessary for starting up successful businesses. It utilizes an innovative design, moving away from the traditional pedagogy of curriculum design to integrate course subjects in a systematic and realistic process, better mirroring the world. Furthermore, it weaves together basic foundations of business and psychology, focusing on the development of the whole person rather than just targeting a few isolated skills. If you are an existing or aspiring small business owner or corporate entrepreneur who wants a change from the high failure rates of entrepreneurship, this program is for you. It will help you identify, commercialize and create entrepreneurial opportunities so you can become an innovative manager within the private, public or non-profit sectors, both locally and internationally.
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Course Title
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Credit Hours
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Core Stage
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· MCC 601 Marketing Management
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3
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MCC 604 Quantitative Methods for Decision Making
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4
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MCC 605 Business Law
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3
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MCC 607 Accounting for Decision Making
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3
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MCC 602 Managerial Economics
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3
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MCC 603 Research Methods
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4
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MCC 608 Organizational Behavior
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3
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MCC 609 Strategic Management
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3
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Specialization Stage
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Systemic Thought
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4
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Small
Business Management and Family-Owned Businesses
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4
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Strategic Development
for Competitive Advantage
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4
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Business
Negotiations and Transformative Business Planning
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4
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Thesis Stage
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12 ECTS
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Capstone Project
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Students
engage in Capstone Project research and preparing paper under guidance of
Academic Mentor; Approval by Academic Review Board
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Oral
Defense
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Students
defend Capstone Project at Oral Defense; Approval by Oral Defense Committee
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Specialization Course Descriptions:
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Course Name
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Course Descriptions
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Systemic Thought
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This course
develops students’ ability to focus their analytical, emotional, and systemic
intelligence in order to develop an empowering framework needed in the
entrepreneurial (external and internal) environment. It enables learners to access, with
consistency, innovation from within themselves and their environment. Learners learn to see entrepreneurial
opportunities that others do not, in both new enterprises and within
innovation-seeking established organizations.
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Small Business Management
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Small
business is the predominant business structure across the world. It also is the structure most prone to
business failure. Family-owned
businesses are a subset of small businesses.
They experience an entirely
different set of dynamics that must be managed and positioned to achieve
maximum results. This course helps
learners identify skillsets needed most for success in these environments. It also cultivates their innovative potential and ability
to recognize potential benefits in their decision-making. Adaptation of
traditional management principles is applied to the small business
environment as the core foundation of this course.
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Small Business Strategy
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In this course, learners explore both
established and emerging approaches in external and internal
company/marketplace analyses that promote strategies to achieve competitive
advantage. The course also develops, from multiple perspectives, strategic
creation processes that leverage innovative processes.
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Negotiations and Business Planning
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This multi-layered course helps learners
develop empowering practices that apply social capital to business
negotiations with respect to dynamics within
the conduct of negotiations and the importance to an acceptance of innovative proposals. The learner is then challenged to channel
these skills in planning business operations which maximize opportunities for
success. This process involves the
crafting of a business plan for a new enterprise, or the reconstruction of
existing business processes in an existing business/nonprofit/governmental
operation.
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Graduation Requirement:
Students
will be required to score at least Grade ‘B’ (50%) of all registered courses.
However, students are required to obtain a minimum of 60 credit passes before
graduation.
Grading
Systems:
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Grade
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Marks
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Interpretation
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Grade Point
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A
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80 -100
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Excellent
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4.00
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A-
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70 - 79
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Very Good
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3.50
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B+
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60 - 69
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Good
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3.00
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B
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50 - 59
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Credit
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2.50
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C
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40 - 49
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Marginal Pass
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1.50
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D
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30 - 39
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Fail
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1.00
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F
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0 - 29
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Fail
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0.50
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Z
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Disqualified
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IC
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Incomplete
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Pass
Grades:
Grades A, A-, B+, and B constitutes pass grades.
Failure
Grades:
Grades C, D, F, and Z constitutes failure grades.
Graduation
Requirement:
Students are required to obtain a minimum of 60 credit
hours of passed grades. However, 8 credit hours of marginal passes (grade C) in
addition to 60 credit passes will be acceptable for graduation.
Students will therefore be required to retake relevant
number of courses in which they obtained marginal passes, and failed grades in
order to meet the graduate requirement.