Entrepreneurship & New Ventures
This course focuses on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management in startups.
SUMMARY
Build a foundation for launching new ventures.
The Entrepreneurship & New Ventures (ENV) course is an active learning course centered on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management.
It is positioned as an entry point for students who think that they might want to start their own business “someday,” and want to learn about the startup process now. Specifically, the course is designed to help students develop a better understanding of how to
- generate and identify business opportunities,
- define potential business concepts,
- refine the business concepts through creativity and business modeling,
- translate the business concepts into minimum viable product definitions informed by design thinking and lean startup customer development approaches, and then
- prepare to drive sales of the products through an online presence.
ENV is an active learning course designed for 21st-century learners.
01. First Day of Class
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022.
1st Period
The first session will be taught online (real-time) via Zoom. Please complete the APPLICATION FORM (scroll down for the link) by 20:00 p.m. on Monday, September 26th if you would like to receive an email with information about the Zoom meeting.
02. Course Duration
September 2022 – January 2023.
03. Course Format
This course is lecture- and discussion-based, requires students to keep an online journal, and frequently makes use of in-class breakout groups.
Onboarding Flow
This course does not use Hoppii. Instead, this course uses CANVAS LMS (学習管理システム/学習支援システム), the world’s fastest-growing LMS. To get an invitation to join the first class on Zoom and to join the course on CANVAS, you will need to complete the Application Form below.
If you have studied in the United States or Europe, then you probably have already used CANVAS in at least one of your courses. If you have never studied in the United States or Europe, then I hope you will view this course as an opportunity to enjoy a study abroad-like experience from the comfort of Tokyo.
APPLICATION FORM
To Start the APPLICATION FORM for Class Selection & Onboarding Please Click on the Button Below
This form is required even if we do not need to conduct a formal selection process because it helps me to quickly assess the level of readiness of the students enrolled in – or intending to enroll in – the course.
Entrepreneurial Management is the process by which opportunities are transformed into businesses.
Learning Goals & Objectives
Learning Goal
The learning goal of this course is to acquire academic and practical knowledge about the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management.
Primary Learning Objective
The Learning Objective of the ENV course is to develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset while learning about topics related to Entrepreneurial Management and new business creation in startups.
Additional Learning Objectives
Additional Learning Objectives for this course include developing Critical Thinking, Communication, Leadership, Teamwork, & Ethical Reasoning Skills.
Entrepreneurial Management leverages business design – a discipline; a set of tools and processes – in order to prototype business models and test them in the marketplace.
Instructor
Sean M. HACKETT, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate School of Business, Aoyama Gakuin University
Dr. Hackett is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU). Before coming to AGU, Dr. Hackett served on the faculties at Waseda University in Tokyo, Drexel University in Pennsylvania (USA), and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee (USA). His teaching and research interests are at the intersection of cross-cultural management, innovation, negotiation, and entrepreneurship with a focus on how digitalization transforms existing businesses and makes new businesses possible.
Dr. Hackett has a B.A. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN); an M.A. in International Relations from Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), and an M.S./Ph.D. in Management of Technology from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). As a Rotary Foundation Fellow, Dr. Hackett also spent nine months studying the Japanese language intensively at International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan).
The experiences of having studied in academic degree programs housed in Colleges of Arts and Letters (University of Notre Dame, Sophia University) as well as in a School of Engineering (Vanderbilt University) – and having taught primarily in Business Schools (Drexel University, Waseda University, and Aoyama Gakuin University) but also in a School of Engineering (Vanderbilt University) – have enabled Dr. Hackett to see the world from a variety of perspectives. He connects easily with students and professionals from all walks of life.