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BUSN 3230: Small Business Management and Minority Entrepreneurship: Home

Prof. Hervé Queneau

Professor

Prof. Hervé QueneauInstructor: Prof. Hervé Queneau

Contact E-mail: hqueneau@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Virtual Office Hours: By Appointment

Course Materials

This course uses Open Educational Resources (OER) and is a Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) course, which means the textbook is free.

Using this free textbook is required for this course.

Students have the option to:

(Individual chapter links listed within each week's page as well)

Citation:

Laverty, Michael , and Chris Littel . Entrepreneurship. Houston, Texas : OpenStax, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-947172-70-8 https://openstax.org/books/entrepreneurship/pages/1-introduction.

 

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Course Overview

Entrepreneurship has become a major source of economic growth and job creation in the United States. As the number of small businesses increases in the U.S. economy, so does the need to prepare students in entrepreneurship. This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to effectively start, operate, and develop a business venture or non-profit organization.

The knowledge and skills learned in this course are also valuable to students who intend to work in large organizations. Indeed, large organizations increasingly expect entrepreneurial thinking from their managers and employees as a way to foster innovation.

Program Goals Addressed by Course

  1. Students will develop competency in the legal and international environments in which today’s businesses must operate.
  2. Students will develop competency in the use of technology and the use of the Internet as a research tool.
  3. Students will acquire competence in the area of finance and be able use this knowledge in the solution of finance problems.
  4. Students will develop the ability to integrate the knowledge from the various functional areas of business and be able to critically analyze a problem and develop a solution.

Learning Objectives

The course has three main learning objectives:

  1. Examine the key processes in the launching of new business ventures and organizations
  2. Analyze the opportunities and challenges that small firms and organizations experience
  3. Develop and present a business plan for a proposed start up.

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CUNY Policies

If an academic misconduct (for example: cheating on exams or papers, plagiarism…) occurs the instructor will impose the strongest sanctions that the University permits. I encourage you to look at articles and/or resources from databases and/or on the Internet to find information regarding the discussion questions and/or other assignments. However, your work on the different assignments in this class must be your own work.

Direct quotations should be used very rarely and, when used, should be very short. You must always indicate the sources used. Students will not receive credit for answers on the different assignments that are mostly paraphrasing of other sources even if the sources are listed. Paraphrasing should be used very rarely and, when used, students must always indicate the sources used. There is no learning value for students to just quote and/or paraphrase parts of articles and/or resources found on the Internet or somewhere else.

If students use information from any source in an assignment and do not cite the source using quotation marks, this is plagiarism, which is a violation of academic integrity at Brooklyn College. If I find evidence of plagiarism in an assignment, the student will receive a score of zero on this assignment. If I find again evidence of plagiarism in another assignment from the same student, this student will receive a failing grade in the class.  Furthermore, if a student plagiarizes and/or cheats I am required to report it to the Committee on Academic Integrity. This Committee may then decide to suspend or expel the student.

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In order to receive academic accommodations students must first be registered with the Center for Student Disability Services. Students who have a documented disability or who suspect that they might have a disability are invited to set up an appointment with the Director of the Center for Student Disability Services, Ms. Valerie Stewart-Lovell or the Assistant Director, Josephine Patterson or their general email testingcsds@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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  • Students requesting a religious accommodation should contact the Division of Student Affairs as well. The chief student affairs officer, or a designee, and the student will engage in an interactive process with the goal of finding an acceptable accommodation.

Bereavement Procedure:

  • Upon approval from the Division of Student Affairs, the student is allowed one week, commencing from the day of notification to the Division of Student Affairs, of excused absence.
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Creative Commons LicenseUnless otherwise noted, this OER BUSN 3230 Small Business Management and Minority Entrepreneurship (BUSN 3230) was curated by Professor Prof. Hervé Queneau for Brooklyn College Summer 2021 and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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