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Earn your Master’s of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership (MS-ENLD). This is the ideal program for any individual who would like to combine the academic prowess of Mays Business School with their natural affinity for entrepreneurship and problem-solving. The MS-ENLD program will equip you with the knowledge and experience needed to fuel your future career.

MS-ENLD students will learn how to successfully create and manage new ventures and how to drive innovation within existing enterprises. Graduates of the MS-ENLD will enter the workforce ready to assist in the planning and launch of new venture start-ups, serve as leaders in high-growth firms, or become corporate intrapreneurs capable of improving an organization’s innovative capacity. Our graduates are not idle employees, rather they take an active role in contributing to an organization’s long-term success.

• Program Fee’s are subject to Board of Regents approval

Interested in more information about the MS-ENLD program? Contact us via e-mail or at 979-845-4851.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

• Applications Open: Oct. 15, 2023
• Priority Application Deadline: Dec. 2, 2023
• International Applicant Deadline: Feb. 17, 2024
• Domestic Applicant Deadline: March 16, 2024

The MS-ENLD program requires 36 total credit hours required and is a non-thesis program. Below you will find a detailed breakdown of the mandatory courses and electives.

Course	Title	Hours
MGMT 632	Technology Commercialization	3
MGMT 637	Foundations of New Ventures	3
MGMT 638	Strategic Entrepreneurship	3
MGMT 640	Creativity and Innovation	3

Course	Title	Hours
MGMT 633	Organization Change and Development	3
MGMT 639	Negotiations	3
MGMT 658	Managing Projects	3
MGMT 675	Leadership	3

Course	Title	Hours
MGMT 635	Employment Regulation	3
MGMT 655	Survey of Management	3
MGMT 679	International Business Policy	3
MGMT 680	Business and Corporate Strategy	3
MGMT 685	Directed Studies	3
FINC 644	Funding New Ventures	3
ISTM 660	Applied Predictive Analytics for Business	3
MKTG 650	Analyzing Consumer Behavior	3
MKTG 656	Branding and Marketing Communication	3
MKTG 671	Product Innovation	3
MKTG 673	Services Marketing	3
SCMT 611	Statistical Foundation of Data Analytics	3

The Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship from the Mays Business School provides a foundation for understanding new business feasibility and planning, the challenges of funding new businesses, management of innovation and creativity in organizations, protecting intellectual property, and issues that arise as new businesses grow and develop into larger organizations. To complete the Certificate in Entrepreneurship, students must successfully complete three core entrepreneurship courses along with one elective course for a total of 12 credit hours.

Students seeking the Certificate in Entrepreneurship should plan to complete the certificate requirements throughout their degree programs rather than attempting to complete the required courses in one or two semesters. The core entrepreneurship courses are in high demand and seat availability in those courses cannot be guaranteed for students seeking to complete the certificate in any specific semester.

All certificate programs of Texas A&M University are tracked through the Office of the Registrar and must be added to a student’s record through a request made by a student’s Academic Advisor through the University Adjustment System (UAS). The certificate program should be added to a student’s record before attempting to register for any of the courses required for the certificate.

Adding the Certificate:

Students wishing to pursue the certificate are encouraged to officially add it as soon as possible in order to have preregistration access to certificate courses.

Students initiate the request to add the certificate with their major advisor/department contact, who then enters the Additional Curriculum Request (code:  CTG-ENTR) in the University Adjustment System. 

Once the advisor/department contact makes the entry, students should allow 1-2 weeks for the certificate to be reflected on their student record in Howdy.

For additional information about the certificate, contact Dr. David Flint at gflint@mays.tamu.edu.

MGMT 637 – Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Process of launching a new venture; process by which opportunities can be discovered and selected; attributes of entrepreneurs and new venture teams; process of developing business plan; core entrepreneurial strategies--business level, organizational design, marketing, financial; strives to develop competencies, concepts, operational tools relevant to creating, implementing new ventures.

MGMT 638 – Strategic Entrepreneurship
Emphasis on a firm's need to be both entrepreneurial, identifying opportunities in the market, and strategic, taking actions to gain a competitive advantage, in order to create value for stakeholders; includes developing an entrepreneurial mindset; building an entrepreneurial culture; managing resources, building a resource portfolio, bundling resources to create capabilities and leveraging the capabilities to exploit the opportunities identified; creating innovations.

MGMT 640 – Managing for Creativity and Innovation
Examines factors that may foster or stifle individual, team, or organizational creative performance, and presents techniques that may improve the student's creative thinking skills.

MGMT 632 – Technology Commercialization
Focus on technology, process of evaluating raw technology viability, converting raw technology into commercially viable products and services; includes model on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant program; develops competencies skills to evaluate technology's commercial viability; brings viable technologies to commercial success.

MGMT 633 – Organizational Change and Development
Organizational change theory, processes and models; the role of change agents; organizational diagnosis and intervention; culture, process, strategy, structure and technology changes in organizations; evaluation research on organizational change; problems and issues in organizational change.

MGMT 639 – Negotiations in Competitive Environments
Understanding prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to dyadic and multi-party negotiations, to buyer-seller transactions, dispute resolution, development of negotiation strategy and management of integrative and distributive aspects of the negotiation process.

MGMT 655 – Survey of Management
Management concepts and applications important to managers in all types and sizes of organizations; includes: strategic planning, goal setting, control and managerial ethics; decision making, organizing, human resource management, including staffing, performance appraisal and compensation; leadership, motivation, communication and group processes; achieving organizational quality and managing in a global environment.

MGMT 658 – Managing Projects
Application of management processes to complex interdisciplinary organizational environments through the study of program and project management; adoptions of traditional management theories to the project environment; master typical project management microcomputer software for project planning; resource allocation; project budgeting; and control of project cost, schedule, and performance.

MGMT 675 – Leadership in Organizations
Review of research on procedures, styles and methods of leadership, supervision, management and administration; all aspects of leader role behavior, both in practice and in research; areas in need of further research. May be repeated for up to 3 hours credit.

MGMT 679/IBUS 679 – International Business Policy
Determinants of U.S. competitiveness in international markets; the international environment of business; introduction to multinational enterprises, global competition, international organizations, protection of intellectual property; international trade regulation; strategic trade theory.

MGMT 680 – Business and Corporate Strategy
The nature of strategy and its relationship with performance. Business level strategies, including: product and cost differentiation, cooperation, and imitation impeding strategies. Corporate level strategies, including: diversification, mergers and acquisitions, innovation and market share. Case analyses emphasized.

The Professional Program in Accounting, a five year integrated program offered by the department of accounting, offers students the opportunity to become a highly skilled professional, ready to compete, succeed and lead in today’s high-technology, global and competitive environment.

The Entrepreneurial Leadership track provides students with the skills vital to an individual’s efforts to act entrepreneurially, either within an existing organization or when launching a new venture. Graduates of this track will have developed an entrepreneurial mindset which will provide opportunities with international accounting firms, corporations and financial institutions.

The Entrepreneurial Leadership track has 2 options that will either lead to your MS degree in Accounting or Management:

Option 1

MS-Accounting Degree

with a focus on audit or tax

It consists of four sequenced three hour classes that are designed and offered beginning in the students senior fall semester completing in the students spring graduate year.

Choose 4 of the courses listed below:

MGMT 632 Technology Commercialization

MGMT 637 Foundations of Entrepreneurship

MGMT 638 Strategic Entrepreneurship

MGMT 640 Creativity and Innovation

MGMT 675 Leadership Development

FINC 644 Funding New Ventures

Option 2

MS-Management Entrepreneurial Leadership Degree

This consists of the same classes in option 1, plus three more that are critical for the students’ success in Entrepreneurial Leadership.

The required courses are:

MGMT 639 Negotiations in Competitive Environment

MGMT 675 Leadership Development

And 1 choice from the list below:

MGMT 620 Strategic Human Resource Management

MGMT 633 Organizational Change and Development

MGMT 658 Managing Projects

FINC 644 Funding New Ventures

MGMT 640 – Managing Creativity and Innovation
This course examines factors that may foster or stifle individual, team or organizational creative performance. The course also presents techniques designed to improve the student’s creative thinking skills.

MGMT 637– Foundations of Entrepreneurship
This course addresses: (1) the process of launching a new venture; (2) the process by which opportunities can be discovered and selected; (3) the attributes of entrepreneurs and new venture teams; (4) the process of developing a business plan, including the related resource requirements; and (5) core entrepreneurial strategies; including business-level, organizational design, marketing, and financial. The course generally strives to develop the competencies, concepts, and operational tools that are relevant to creating and implementing new ventures.

MGMT 632 – Technology Commercialization
This course focuses on technology, the process of evaluating the viability of raw technology, and the process of converting the raw technology into commercially viable products and services. Additionally, the course includes a module on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant program. The course generally strives to develop the competencies and skills needed to evaluate the commercial viability of technology, and to bring viable technologies to commercial success.

MGMT 638 – Strategic Entrepreneurship
This course is about entrepreneurship involving the establishment and management of new ventures by corporations or independent new venture teams. Firms create value by identifying opportunities in their external environment and then developing a competitive advantage to exploit them. Strategic entrepreneurship involves simultaneous opportunity seeking and advantage seeking behaviors. The course describes opportunity seeking, advantage seeking and the balance between these two that is critical for organizational success. The course examines the development of an entrepreneurial mindset and culture, managing resources strategically, developing and exploiting innovation, along with a number of other important topics (e.g., international entrepreneurship).

MGMT 675 – Leadership in Organizations
Review of research on procedures, styles and methods of leadership, supervision, management and administration; all aspects of leader role behavior, both in practice and in research; areas in need of further research. May be repeated for up to 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

MGMT 639 – Negotiations in Competitive Environments
Understanding prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to dyadic and multi-party negotiations, to buyer-seller transactions, dispute resolution, development of negotiation strategy and management of integrative and distributive aspects of the negotiation process. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

MGMT 633 – Organizational Change and Development
Organizational change theory, processes and models; the role of change agents; organizational diagnosis and intervention; culture, process, strategy, structure and technology changes in organizations; evaluation research on organizational change; problems and issues in organizational change. Prerequisite: MGMT 630 or equivalent.

MGMT 620 – Strategic Human Resource Management
Survey of human resource management from a strategic perspective. Formulation and implementation of human resource strategy addressed for areas including: planning, recruitment, selection, placement, training, development, appraisal, compensation, labor relations, international human resource issues and legal compliance and ethical.

MGMT 658 – Managing Projects
Application of management processes to complex interdisciplinary organizational environments through the study of program and project management; adoptions of traditional management theories to the project environment; master typical project management microcomputer software for project planning; resource allocation; project budgeting; and control of project cost, schedule and performance. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

FINC 644 – Funding New Ventures
This course provides the students with a general financial understanding of small business and entrepreneurship. The central focus will be on the financing of entrepreneurial ventures. Additionally, the course will address the types of financing strategies used at different stages of the venture.