Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Learning Assurances
The following are a list of Program Learning Outcomes (referred to as Student Learning Goals by AACSB) for the Graziadio School of Business and Management. Each program at the Graziadio School has established a set of indicators for ensuring graduates of our programs are meeting certain performance standards. Although GPA is certainly one indicator of performance, it tells only a small part of each student's academic journey. These indicators measure student performance in alignment with the mission and goals of the Graziadio School of Business and Management and Pepperdine University. These standards include learning goals and objectives coupled with an observable demonstration of how well students are performing. Therefore, the Graziadio School has developed and standardized measurements (rubrics) and a reporting mechanism of the outcomes. The standardized rubrics are used to measure whether students "do not meet," "meet," or "exceed expectations." The goals and objectives for each program are listed below. In addition, a curriculum matrix for each program illustrates where these goals and objectives are measured using the standardized rubrics developed for each learning goal.
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BSM Goal 1:
Students will be effective communicators in business settings. |
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Objective |
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Students will be able to organize and deliver cogent oral presentations. |
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Students will be able to organize and deliver cogent written presentations. |
BSM Goal 2:
Students will be able to meaningfully contribute in a team environment. |
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Students will skillfully assess performance effectiveness of team members. |
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Teams will effectively complete the goals of a project. |
BSM Goal 3:
Students will have the ability to recognize ethical issues and to incorporate ethical considerations when recommending courses of action. |
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Objective |
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Students can identify ethical standards for an ethical problem. |
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Students can select solutions when presented with an ethical problem. |
BSM Goal 4:
Graduates will have a global orientation. |
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Objective |
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Our students will be able to define and present key elements of another culture (other than the US) and their role in business decision making. |
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Our students will be able to evaluate the economic conditions and forces affecting the introduction of a product or service in a foreign country. |
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Our students will be able to evaluate the political risks involving international business in a foreign country. |
FTMBA Goal 1: Students are effective team players. |
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Objective |
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Students are able to effectively work with a team environment. |
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Students participate in all aspects of team development. |
FTMBA Goal 2:
Students have the skills necessary to fully analyze the financial standing of a company |
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Objective |
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Students can perform a full accounting analysis of a publicly traded company. |
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Students can perform a full financial analysis of a company. |
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Students can effectively draw conclusions about the financial status of a company based on the combined accounting and financial information. |
FTMBA Goal 3:
Students are effective in communicating orally in a business environment |
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Objective |
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Students possess the ability to organize information to create informative business presentations. |
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Students are able to orally deliver information in a persuasive fashion. |
FTMBA Goal 4: Students are proficient in writing professional documents in a business environment. |
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Objective |
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Students demonstrate a clear understanding of content. |
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Students can organize the subject matter in a logical manner. |
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Students' language is plain and effective. |
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Students' spelling, grammar, and punctuation are error free. |
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Students final product demonstrates profession format. |
FEMBA Goal 1: Students have the skills to analyze business situations in an integrated, multidisciplinary way and recommend solutions. |
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Objective |
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Students recognize the importance of multi-disciplinary problem solving. |
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Students engage in multi-disciplinary problem solving. |
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Students develop and justify strategic recommendations that indicate the integration of a variety of business functions. |
FEMBA Goal 2:
Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking. |
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Objective |
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Students prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline. |
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Students prepare a written report analyzing a business problem. |
FEMBA Goal 3: Students understand team dynamics and are effective team members and leaders. |
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Objective |
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Students recognize the importance of trust in achieving team goals and resolve team conflicts based on trust. |
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Students demonstrate commitment to the team effort and hold themselves and others accountable for obtaining performance outcomes. |
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Students establish and obtain goals for the team project. |
FEMBA Goal 4: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making. |
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Objective |
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Students recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations. |
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Students develop solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and recognize the consequences of those solutions. |
EMBA Goal 1: Students will develop skills for analyzing organizational culture and applying the cultural analysis in developing an implementation strategy for change |
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Objective |
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Students can identify the historical events and factors that impacted the organization's culture. |
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Students can describe the research methodology used to examine an organization's culture. |
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Students can develop an implementation strategy for change. |
EMBA Goal 2: Students will enhance skills for analyzing financial information and communicating effectively the results of this analysis |
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Objective |
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Students demonstrate effective workmanship behaviors. |
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Students demonstrate effective teamwork behaviors. |
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Students will recognize and analyze their organization's code of ethical conduct. |
EMBA Goal 3: Students will demonstrate skills to assess how the external environment influences the company's strategic and tactical decisions, including specific global issues. |
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Objective |
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Students can translate financial statement information into a financial analysis and identify an organization's financial strengths and weaknesses. |
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Students can identify and communicate alternatives for improving an organization's financial performance based on the financial analysis. |
EMBA Goal 4: Students will demonstrate skills to develop marketing strategies and to make recommendations to use the resources of the organization to achieve the marketing strategy. |
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Objective |
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Students can evaluate country risk by analyzing core micro and macro trends. |
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Students can develop pre-marketing strategic planning by performing an industry study using economic trends. |
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Ability to demonstrate use of statistics to determine the effects of economic trends on business income generation. |
EMBA Goal 5: Students will demonstrate skills to analyze the competitive forces and devise a comprehensive strategic plan. |
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Objective |
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Students can develop a positioning statement that focuses on target market. |
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Students can identify marketing research needed for a specific marketing plan. |
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Students can develop and communicate tactics and strategies consistent with key objectives of the marketing plan. |
EMBA Goal 6: Students will demonstrate skills to assess firm's vision/mission, opportunities/threats and strengths/weaknesses and formulate the grand strategy for building firm's competitive, corporate, industry and global positions for building firm's strategic advantages |
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Objective |
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Students can craft firm's desired future state and overarching mission and goals, assess firm's external opportunities and threats, and identify internal strengths and weaknesses. |
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Students can formulate a strategy encompassing four key areas: competitive strategy, corporate strategy, industry strategy and global, assess the consequences (including ethical and societal) of the strategy, and consider needed contingencies. |
EMBA Goal 7: Students will demonstrate skills to analyze and recommend the implementation of the firm's grand strategy through designing and configuring the business and organization functions and processes, integrating functional and operating plans, performance management, controls and change. |
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Objective |
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Students will develop the business design best suited to implement grand strategy, and design an organization structure and processes for implementation of grand strategy. |
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Students will develop sub-grand strategy functional and business plans for performance management, develop controls and corrective levers plan, and manage change. |
PKE Goal 1: Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct a cultural assessment of an organization, including the organization's culture regarding ethical conduct. |
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Objective |
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Students will interview managers from an organization that a fellow student is involved with and write an analysis of their findings. |
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Students will write an analysis of the culture of an organization they are involved with. |
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Students will analyze the organization's culture regarding ethical conduct. |
PKE Goal 2: Students will demonstrate the ability to perform a financial analysis of an organization. |
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Objective |
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Students will prepare a financial forecast for an organization. |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze financial information. |
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Students will effectively communicate financial recommendations for an organization. |
PKE Goal 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the external environment of an organization. This will include the economic, social/cultural, political/legal/regulatory, technological, demographic, natural and competitive elements of the environment from a global perspective. |
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Objective |
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Students will develop scenarios for change in external variables. |
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Students will develop a competitive/industry analysis for an organization that will examine both current and anticipated competition. |
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Students will effectively communicate the potential implications of changes in environmental variables. |
PKE Goal 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to prepare a marketing plan for an organization. |
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Objective |
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Students will develop a complete marketing mix for an organization. |
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Students will develop an understanding of how to create, deliver and communicate value in a product. |
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Students will be able to evaluate the political risks involving international business in a foreign country. |
PKE Goal 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to prepare a strategic plan for an organization. |
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Objective |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to envision an organization's desired future state, including articulating appropriate vision, mission and goals. |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to identify an organization's strengths and weaknesses. |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate the long and short-term consequences of their proposed strategies. |
MSOD Goal 1: Students will increase their knowledge of self in order to be more effective as change agents. |
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Students will design and complete (on an individual basis) a personal development plan by the end of the program. |
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Students will be able to articulate events which shifted their knowledge of self and can relate it to their own consulting practice and philosophy. |
MSOD Goal 2: Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in providing organization development consulting. |
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Able to articulate key concepts in Organization Development. |
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Able to complete an applied field assignment with actual clients. |
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Demonstrate consulting skills and client centered responses |
MSOD Goal 3: Students will increase their understanding of the global challenges that face organizations and increase their ability to ethically consult globally. |
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After Session Two, each student will have their own model for ethically entering a culture different than their own. |
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Students will demonstrate an understanding of the implications and consequences for choosing a particular OD intervention in a country other than the United States. |
MSOD Goal 4: Students will develop skills to contribute to the rigor and relevance of the Organization Development Field.
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Students will be able to conduct a comprehensive literature search on an OD topics. |
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Students will be able to design a study, collect data, analyze the results and make recommendations for research and practice. |
MSAF Goal 1: Students have the skills necessary to fully analyze the financial standing of a company. |
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Students can perform a full accounting analysis of a publicly traded company. |
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Students can perform a full financial analysis of a company. |
| 3 |
Students can effectively draw conclusions about the financial status of a company based on the combined accounting and financial information. |
MSAF Goal 2: Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking. |
| # | Objective |
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Students will be able to prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline. |
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Students will be able to prepare a written report analyzing a business problem. |
MSAF Goal 3: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making. |
| # | Objective |
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Students are able to recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations. |
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Students can select solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions. |
MSAF Goal 4: Students are effective team players. |
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Students are able to effectively work with a team environment. |
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Students participate in all aspects of team development. |
MSML Goal 1: Students will increase self-awareness and personal understanding. |
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Students will design and complete (on an individual basis) a personal development plan by the end of the program. |
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Students will develop the ability to synthesize and integrate information from assessments, feedback, and self-reflections |
MSML Goal 2: Students will develop strong working knowledge of managerial and leadership capabilities in a values-centered framework. |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to put leadership and influence principles into practice. |
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Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills. |
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Students will learn and practice conflict management and negotiation skills. |
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Students can recognize ethical dilemmas, select solutions, and discuss the consequences of those solutions. |
MSML Goal 3: Students will develop competency in managing people and teams within public/private organizations. |
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Students will learn how to lead and manage change. |
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Students will develop skills in effective interpersonal communications |
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Students understand team dynamics and are effective team members and leaders. |
MSML Goal 4: Students will increase multicultural competencies. |
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Students will increase adaptability and global leadership skills. |
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Students will develop a greater understanding of and ability to manage diversity. |
MSGB Goal 1: Students are effective teams players. |
| # | Objective |
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Students are able to effectively work with a team environment. |
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Students participate in all aspects of team development. |
MSGB Goal 2: Students understand complexity in doing business across cultures. |
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Students have a general understanding of how the global economy works and what may contribute to up and down economic and international trade swings. |
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Students are able to develop business strategies and processes that deal with the different business cultures and internal economic realities for countries of interest. |
MSGB Goal 3: Students incorporate ethical considerations in decision-making. |
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Students are able to recognize ethical dilemmas in business situations. |
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Students can select solutions when presented with ethical dilemmas and discuss the consequences of those solutions. |
MSGB Goal 4: Students have the communication skills to persuasively and professionally articulate their thinking. |
| # | Objective |
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Students will be able to prepare and deliver a persuasive, professional speech on a current topic in their discipline. |
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Students will be able to prepare a written report analyzing a business problem. |
MSEN Goal 1:
Entrepreneurial Expertise - MSEN students will be prepared to create, organize, operate, and assume the risk for a
business venture and/or to exhibit leadership in innovation in an organizational setting. |
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MSEN students will be able to combine creative problem solving processes, skills and tools to generate personally compelling ideas for their own business ventures. |
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MSEN students will be able to assess the personal, technological, marketing and financial feasibility of their own business ideas. |
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MSEN students will be able to design business models for their own business ventures. |
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MSEN students will develop a greater understanding of their personal strengths and weaknesses as entrepreneurs. |
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MSEN students will be able to relate the principles of international business to their own ventures. |
MSEN Goal 2: Oral Presentation Skills - MSEN students will be skilled in making oral presentations to potential stakeholders in
order to gain their support for proposed entrepreneurial ventures.
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MSEN students will be able to deliver an "elevator pitch" to an audience of potential stakeholders. |
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MSEN students will effectively present a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation to an audience of potential stakeholders. |
MSEN Goal 3:
Written Presentation Skills - MSEN students will be proficient in writing business plans intended to gain the support
of potential stakeholders. |
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MSEN students will compose standalone plans for each component of the business model of an entrepreneurial opportunity. |
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MSEN students will write a complete business plan for an entrepreneurial venture and present it to potential stakeholders. |
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