The Entrepreneurial Process: Innovation in Practice

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Entrepreneurship is innovation in practice: Transformingideas into opportunities, and, through a deliberate process,opportunities into commercial realities. This mini-course will present this entrepreneurial process through five Harvard Business School case studies that illustrate essential elements of an entrepreneurial framework and highlight practical approaches to entrepreneurial success. To address the specific needs of participants currently working in corporate environments. These cases will address the specific challenges and opportunities of innovation and entrepreneurship in a large company. The primary objective of the course is to enable participants who have some facility with fundamental management principles and financial analysis, garnered throughtheir prior formal business education and through their professional experiences, to focus on specific demands of the entrepreneurial processand, throughout these five sessions, to develop confidence and acquire the tools needed to approach their professional challenges more innovatively and entrepreneurially