XSPP-001-3 - Fundamentals of Business: Leadership in a Global Economy
Course Description
This program is full for Summer 2012.
Overview
You will be introduced to business leadership, which provides an exceptional foundation for college and a future career in business. This program has partnered with Team Business to provide you with a true business simulation activity. You will experience what a real entrepreneur faces today. To learn more about Team Business, visit http://www.teambusinessusa.com/.
As a participant in this program, you will gain valuable exposure to important business topics and methods of analysis as you learn from Georgetown professors and leading experts in the field. Combining investment challenges and group presentations with dynamic faculty lectures and case studies, Fundamentals of Business helps students develop practical skills and critical thinking abilities that will benefit them in their future academic and professional lives. The program ends with a business simulation that takes students through the process of starting a company and being an entrepreneur.
Core Topics Covered*
- Business law
- Finance
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Organizational planning and behavior
Hands-on Experience*
- Study with professors from the Georgetown McDonough School of Business
- Engage in discussion with Washington-area business experts
- Participate in an engaging, hands-on business simulation conducted by Team Business**:
- With classmates, become an entrepreneur and work together to run a start-up company
- Invest in hard assets and manufacturing
- Conduct advertising and financial management practices
Monday, July 16 *
- 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
- Professor Thomas Cooke
The Legal Environment of Business
Criminal Law Process & Procedure
Civil Law Process and Procedure - 10:10 – 11:30 a.m.
- Professor Alan Mayer-Sommer
Business Simulation
McDonough School of Business Computer Lab - Afternoon
- Students can use this time period to take a second class from Summer College and earn an additional three credits.
- Evening
- Case Readings Assignment: Carpenter v. United States
- 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
- Summer Hoya Evening Program: Movie on the Quad
* Core topics, hands-on experience, and sample schedules are subject to change.
** Team Business is based in Baltimore, MD, and has teamed up with this program to bring students an intensive, engaging business simulation where students experience the world of entrepreneurship by creating it themselves.