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Entrepreneurship Certificate at Kelley Indianapolis

Whether you plan to launch your own business, develop new products, work at a startup or assist with your company’s growth initiatives, the 12 credit hour Entrepreneurship Certificate adds to your understanding of entrepreneurship. Learn key ways to develop, form and nurture a venture that lays the foundation for success. This certificate is:

Hands on. This certificate is experiential, which means you’ll leave campus to visit and network with entrepreneurs in the community.
Delivered in stages. The sequence of courses follows the journey of creating a venture: the stages of developing; decision-making and understanding how strategy, finance, marketing, operations, and other business disciplines interact.
Career focused. The skills you gain from this certificate prepare you to drive innovation in your own venture or in growing companies throughout Indiana.

Requirements and qualifications

To qualify for the certificate, you must be an admitted or current student at IU Indianapolis.

You must also:

Complete nine credit hours of core certificate courses on the IU Indianapolis campus.
Have a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Complete prerequisites for some courses.

Learn more about consumer information for this certificate program.

The certificate requires 12 undergraduate credit hours divided between a 9 credit hour core and 6 credit hours of electives. The core is composed of the following trio of courses, which build upon each other to take you from the initial entrepreneurial idea through launch of a venture.

The courses should be taken in order with W240 as a prerequisite to W250 and both W240 and W250 as prerequisites to W360.

Course Number	Course Name	Credit Hours
W240	Introduction to Entrepreneurship Develop an understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset and the challenges and rewards that entrepreneurs face. Build knowledge related to how entrenpreneurs develop ideas into new products or services in the market to gain traction and generate customers. Generate multiple venture ideas, either in the context of an existing corporation or organization or for independent ventures. Collaborate with fellow students to complete a feasibility analysis on a new venture using both qualitative and quantitative techniques and present the results to others.	3
W250	Entrepreneurship: Venture Development Perform intensive customer research, including interviews, surveys and data evaluation to understand and identify market needs. Communicate the key value drivers of a new venture idea and business model framework to a variety of potential stakeholders, including customers and users. Demonstrate the operational and financial feasibility of a venture and develop a high-level financial model for the concept. Understand the competitive landscape of a new venture idea and how it affects the overall new venture model.	3
W360	Entrepreneurship: "Road Show" Communicate the essence of the business and elaborate on its success through an executive summary, business canvas and pitch or presentation. Demonstrate the operational and financial feasibility of the venture and develop a high-level financial model for the enterprise. Design and complete a validation plan that moves the venture from idea to minimally viable product and proof of concept. Produce and deliver entrepreneurial pitch of new venture to external stakeholders/potential investors.	3

Electives for Kelley Majors

Choose two Kelley School of Business courses from the following list of electives to complete the remaining 6 credit hours required for the certificate. The electives deliberately allow future inclusion of disciplinary-specific and industry-specific courses offered by other schools on the IU Indianapolis campus.

Course Number	Course Name	Credit Hours
W430	Organizations and Organizational Design	3
Z302	Managing and Behavior in Organizations	3
Z443	Developing Employee Skills	3
M303	Marketing Research	3
M426	Sales Management	3
M432	Digital Marketing	3
F305	Intermediate Corporate Finance	3
F402	Corporate Financial Strategy and Governance	3
P330	Project Management	3
P421	Supply Chain Management	3
P320	Supply Chain Management: Sourcing	3
P431	Supply Chain Management: Logistics and Distribution	3

Electives for Nonbusiness Majors

Course Number	Course Name	Credit Hours
A186 or A200	Accounting & the Business Environment or Foundations of Accounting	3
F200 or F300	Foundations of Financial Management or Introduction to Financial Management	3
M200 or M300	Marketing & Society or Introduction to Marketing	3
P200 or P300	Operations & Supply Chain Management or Introduction to Operations Management	3
Z200 or Z340	Introduction to Human Resource Practices or Personnel: Introduction to Human Resources	3
D301	International Business Environment	3
Z302	Managing and Behavior in Organizations	3
HER-V101	Design Thinking 101	3
HER-V472	Wicked Problems and Sensemaking	3
HER-V473	Design Methods for Framing Problems	3
HER-V482	Design Methods for Ideating	3
HER-V483	Design Methods for Prototyping	3
NEWM-N100	Foundations of New Media	3
NEWM-N306	Social Media Content, Analytics and Management	3
NEWM-N420	Multimedia Project Development	3
INFO-H467	Internet of Things Interface Design for Business Innovation	3

Considering the Entrepreneurship Certificate?

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To learn if the Entrepreneurship Certificate is right for you, send us an email, and we will be in touch to discuss how it fits into your schedule.

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First step: Declare the certificate

If you're a current IU Indianapolis student taking these courses and would like to declare the Entrepreneurship Certificate, fill out our contact form. We will be in touch with advising support and to ensure the certificate is added to your records.

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Contact us

To learn more about the Entrepreneurship Certificate and how it can fit into your professional goals, please reach out with your specific questions.

Barb Cutillo

Lecturer of Management and Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Certificate Program Coordinator
bcutillo@iu.edu
317-274-3942

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Entrepreneurship Certificate at Kelley Indianapolis

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