BBA in Management, Entrepreneurship Concentration

Overview
Lubin's Bachelor of Business Administration in Management program features a concentration in Entrepreneurship. Overall, the Management major is designed for students who wish a flexible curriculum and opportunity to specialize in one of five areas of concentration. The Entrepreneurship concentration prepares students for careers in entrepreneurship and small business.

Program and Courses
The Entrepreneurship concentration focuses on providing students with the skills they need 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.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

University Core (60)
Business Core (30)

Major Requirements (12 credits)
MGT 316 Venture Initiation & Entrepreneurship
MGT 319 International Entrepreneurship
MGT 416 Business Plan Development
MAR 431 New Product Development

Elective Concentration Courses (3 credits)
Select ONE course from the following:
MGT 309 Restaurant & Foodservices Management
MGT 315 Small Business Management
MGT 317 Human Capital in Entrepreneurship
MGT 394A Management Internship
MAR 322 Marketing Research
MAR 332 Selling and Sales Management
MAR 343 Direct Marketing
LAW 310 Employment Law
MGT 365 Managerial Negotiations

Please click on the course number to see the course description, or click to view all management course descriptions.

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 for Collegiate Entrepreneurs, a Students In Free Enterprise Sam Walton Fellow, and the organizer of the Pace Business Plan Competition, Pace 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.

Admission
For admission information, please contact:

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

Contact Us
For a undergraduate catalog and an application for admission, please fill out our online form. Click for information about campus tours and information sessions, or call 212-346-1323 to schedule a tour. To request a brochure, application packet, or other printed materials, please fill out our online form. You may also call 1-800-874-PACE or send your request via e-mail to infoctr@pace.edu.

For additional information about the program, contact:

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