Syracuse University

Kauffman Initiative on Entrepreneurship: Built on the belief that entrepreneurship is a powerful force for change, Enitiative maintains that entrepreneurship is the key to regenerating the promise of the Central New York area. Syracuse University, as the region’s largest university—and home to the top-ranked Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises program—is uniquely positioned to lead this effort and guide the region toward new solutions for revitalization.

As Enitiative unfolds, the image that emerges is one of transformation and renewal. It empowers students and citizens to use entrepreneurship as a foundation to generate ideas, explore possibilities, and build working models of creative productivity. The Enitiative vision of the future includes a thriving workforce of professionals who put down roots in a newly-vibrant Central New York community. Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone of this endeavor.

Entrepreneurial Marketing: This course examines the role of marketing in start-up ventures and the role of entrepreneurial thinking in marketing efforts. Customer needs as the driving force in entrepreneurship is the theme of this course which explores novel approaches to defining markets and market segments, examines inexpensive ways to conduct relevant market research, and identifies ways to leverage marketing resources and rely on networks to accomplish marketing tasks. Students are encouraged to focus on identifying unique approaches to creating value through each of the elements of the marketing mix.

Emerging Enterprise Law: This course looks at law as a regulator and enhancer of start-up and emerging enterprises. The course covers the formation of the business as well as financing and management from a legal standpoint. Attention is devoted to intellectual property, financier-entrepreneur relations, employer-employee relations, and operational aspects of entrepreneurial ventures that have legal implications. The course also explores the law as an opportunity and a force for new and small ventures.

Entrepreneurship and Digital Commerce: New technologies are creating significant entrepreneurial opportunities but may have a number of pitfalls attached to them. This course examines the evolution of digital technologies, the underlying technologies that are driving the current digital revolution, and innovative application technologies, resources, and services. Students investigate a variety of emerging entrepreneurial opportunities surrounding new developments in digital technologies.

Dilemmas and Debates: This is a topical course taught exclusively by entrepreneurs. The course is coordinated by an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Each week, one or more entrepreneurs are invited in to discuss the great controversies and debates that impact the practicing entrepreneur and on the field of entrepreneurship in general. Sample issues include the role of individuals versus teams in entrepreneurial efforts, how to deal with partners, managers versus entrepreneurs, dealing with failure, building and using networks, harvesting strategies, how much growth is enough (and ceilings one hits along the way), ethical challenges in entrepreneurship, and being an entrepreneur and having a personal life.

Entrepreneurial and Family Business Management: This course examines the unique problems of family businesses and other closely held corporations. Attention is devoted to family business planning, effective governance approaches in family businesses, preparing heirs for entry into and management of family firms, tax and compensation planning, and succession strategies.

Some courses that are offered within the entrepreneurship program at Syracuse:

Discovering the Entrepreneur Within
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Emerging Enterprise Law
Finance for Emerging Enterprises
Imagination
Minority and Women's Entrepreneurship
Business Plan Laboratory EEE
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Exploring The Entrepreneurial Journey (HONORS)
Entrepreneurial and Family Business Management
Emerging Enterprise Consulting
Entrepreneurship and Digital Commerce
Dilemmas and Debates in Entrepreneurship
New Product Management
Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management
Venture Capital
D'Aniello Entrepreneurial Internship

Whitman School of Management:
#38 US News & World Report (2010)
#49 BusinessWeek (2009)

Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Ranking:
#6 US News & World Report (2010)
#13 Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review (2009)

Supply Chain Management Program Ranking:
#9 Supply Chain Management Program AMR Research (2009)
Top 15 in Operations, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine (2009)
#10 Supply Chain Management Review (2005)

School type: Four Year, Private, Founded: 1870

Affiliation: None

Web site: http://www.syracuse.edu/

Student Profile:

Number of undergraduate, full-time students:
12,491

Percentage of undergraduate, full-time male students, female students:
44% Male, 56 % Female.

Number of states represented by student body:
50

Number of countries represented by student body:
115

Percentage of international students:
10%

Percentage of minority students:
22%

Faculty Profile:

Number of full-time faculty:
909

Athletics:

Athletics division, conference, number of varsity sports:
NCAA Division I, Big East Conference, 21 varsity sports

Financial:

Cost of tuition:
$30,470 per year plus housing, meals, and expenses.

Percentage of students who receive some financial aid:
64%

Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
Martin J. Whitman School of Management - Syracuse University
721 University Avenue/Suite 116
Syracuse, NY. 13244-2450

315-443-7086

eeeinfo@syr.edu, excel@syr.edu, http://www.syracuse.edu/

http://www.entrepreneurship.syr.edu