Management Masters Program: Entrepreneurship Concentration

Overview
The MBA concentration in Entrepreneurial Studies is for students whose professional goals encompass starting a business or pursuing a career with a small company. The objective of this program is to prepare students to initiate and manage business ventures, including developing new products, drafting a business plan, and forming and running a family business. Other topics covered are financial management, marketing, and human resource management in a small business setting. Students also learn how to analyze consumer and business trends, and how to use this information in planning and developing a new business venture.

Program and Courses
The MBA concentration in Entrepreneurial Studies aims to prepare students to start and manage their own businesses. The program covers all phases of the entrepreneurial experience including organizational, financial, marketing, and operating requirements for a new business venture.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Preliminary Skill (0)

Foundation Courses (0-19)

Professional Core Courses (15 credits)

Required Specialization Courses (6)
MGT 632 Venture Initiation and Entrepreneurship (3)
MGT 678 Business Plan Development (3)

Specialization Electives (9) CHOOSE 3
FIN 634 Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
MGT 635 Small Business Management (3)
MGT 637 Competitive Business Strategy (3)
MGT 650 Negotiation and Bargaining (3)
MGT 689 Organizational Development (3)
MGT 692 Research Project (3)
MAR 660 New Product Development (30

Capstone Courses (3)

Breadth Electives (6) Lubin 600 level, not MGT or MBA prefixed

Total Credits: 39-58

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Faculty
Lubin faculty is comprised of accomplished practitioners and scholars who offer students a stimulating and interactive learning experience. Their research is often quoted in publications such as Fortune, Business Week and The Wall Street Journal. Highly qualified faculty with extensive industry connections contribute to the management science program. As a closely knit group, management majors receive individual attention from management science faculty both in and outside of class.

Program Director
Bruce Bachenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Management, the Director of Entrepreneurship@Lubin, and a Faculty Fellow of the Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Pace University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, primarily in the areas of management, strategy, and entrepreneurship. Before joining Pace in 2002, he taught a number of courses at Mercy College as an Adjunct Professor.

Mr. Bachenheimer has served as a consultant to the New York City Department of Small Business Services and a variety of new ventures. He has spoken on entrepreneurship at numerous conferences, including the annual meeting of the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, the Congressional Student Leadership Conference on Global Business and Entrepreneurship, the Third and Fourth Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations, and the Make Mine a Million $ Business program, where he also served as a judge. Mr. Bachenheimer is the Chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum of New York City, a member of the LeadAmerica's board of Directors and Advisors, a reviewer for the CASE Journal, and serves on numerous committees at Pace, including the Selection Committee of SCI2, the University's business incubator. Mr. Bachenheimer is the founding faculty advisor of the Pace Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs, a Students In Free Enterprise Sam Walton Fellow, and the organizer of the Pace Business Plan Competition, Pitch Contest and Entrepreneurship Conference.

Mr. Bachenheimer's earlier career includes serving as a Vice President of iQ Venture Partners, an Assistant Vice President of Westpac Banking Corp. and an International Banking Officer for the Bank of Tokyo. As the International Product Manager for MSI, an SBA certified 8(a) firm, he was responsible for the initial commercialization of a high-technology forensic science system. In that position, he conducted business in over twenty countries. Mr. Bachenheimer was also the founder of Annapolis Maritime Corp. and the Co-founder of StockCentral Australia. Other activities include having sailed his 36' boat from New England, through the Caribbean, to South America and back. Bruce also participated in the Sydney to Hobart race in 2000.

Mr. Bachenheimer holds a BBA, summa cum laude, from Pace University. He spent a semester at Tsukuba National University in Japan as an undergraduate and continued to study Japanese at N.Y.U. after graduating. Mr. Bachenheimer received the McKinsey & Company Leadership Scholarship to pursue an MBA degree, which he earned from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Career and Industry Links
Dow Jones VentureOne
Entrepreneur.com
Entrepreneur's Library by Cayenne Consulting
Entrepreneurs' Organization
Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Resources
Kauffman Foundation eVenturing
MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC
MoneyTree Report
National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
National Venture Capital Association
PrivateEquity.com
SCORE
Small Business Administration
ThomsonONE

Corporate Internship Opportunities
Pace's Cooperative Education Program is the largest university internship program in the New York metropolitan area. Many of our management science students obtain internships through this office and can receive course credit for qualified internships.

New York City Location
The BBA concentration in Entrepreneurship is offered at the New York City downtown campus, located in the center of the city's financial district, just a few blocks from Wall Street, and near Westchester's corporate parks, to provide access to the people and markets that drive the world economy.

"Pace's motto is Opportunitas and I believe that nothing is more synonymous with opportunity than entrepreneurship. While at its heart, entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, many of the underlying requirements, such as the ability to analyze opportunities, assemble resources, and structure an economic organization, can be taught. These are critical skills in today's hyper-competitive marketplace, where rapid technological innovation and globalization has led to corporate downsizing and a dramatic increase in entrepreneurial activity."
Bruce Bachenheimer
Clinical Professor of Management and Director
Entrepreneurship@Lubin

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"When I entered the Lubin School, I wasn't sure how I would use the curriculum to help me re- position my consulting business. After taking several of the entrepreneurship courses, I learned very useful skills that have helped me grow my practice. I credit the faculty for bringing their real-world experience to the classroom."
Alan Siege
MBA Entrepreneurial Studies

Admission
A U.S. bachelor's degree or an equivalent degree from a foreign school is the preferred undergraduate degree requirement for admission into the program. In addition to a resume, a personal statement, a GMAT or GRE score report, and two recommendations, applicants must submit official transcripts from all colleges and universities they have attended. A recent TOEFL score, no more than two years old, is required of all applicants whose native language is not English or who did not receive a bachelor's or master's degree from a U.S. institution. Recommended application deadlines are August 1 for the fall entry term and December 1 for the spring entry term. Click for our Application Guidelines and Checklist.

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Office of Graduate Admission
Pace University - New York City campus
1 Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038
Phone: 212-346-1323
E-mail: gradnyc@pace.edu

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For additional information about the program, contact:

Entrepreneurship Program Director
Bruce Bachenheimer
212-618-6580
bbachenheimer@pace.edu

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