What makes a business successful?
Age is not a barrier to having a successful business. Fulfilling your vision with a business requires applying your skills and tools to opportunities that arise. This course places special emphasis on business organization and management, looking at how students might start, organize and run a business. It does not focus as significantly on accounting, leadership styles, or business law. This class will be a mix of traditional academic work and will require a significant amount of real world application. Over the course of the semester we will have multiple guest speakers come and talk about their business experiences and we also hope to take several field trips to local businesses. Students will gain relevant work experience at the student store and sports concession stand. The course will culminate in a final project in which student teams consult with a local natural resource business to assist them with capacity development.
Age is not a barrier to having a successful business. Fulfilling your vision with a business requires applying your skills and tools to opportunities that arise. This course places special emphasis on business organization and management, looking at how students might start, organize and run a business. It does not focus as significantly on accounting, leadership styles, or business law. This class will be a mix of traditional academic work and will require a significant amount of real world application. Over the course of the semester we will have multiple guest speakers come and talk about their business experiences and we also hope to take several field trips to local businesses. Students will gain relevant work experience at the student store and sports concession stand. The course will culminate in a final project in which student teams consult with a local natural resource business to assist them with capacity development.