printer friendly pageME 492: Mechanical Engineering Teaching Assistance Training
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Kaplan, K. (PI)
;
Matloff, L. (PI)
MED 235: Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems (AFRICAST 135, AFRICAST 235, EDUC 135, EDUC 335, HRP 235, HUMBIO 26)
The excitement around social innovation and entrepreneurship has spawned numerous startups focused on tackling world problems, particularly in the fields of education and health. The best social ventures are launched with careful consideration paid to research, design, and efficacy. This course offers students insights into understanding how to effectively develop, evaluate, and scale social ventures. Using TeachAIDS (an award-winning nonprofit educational technology social venture used in 78 countries) as a primary case study, students will be given an in-depth look into how the entity was founded and scaled globally. Guest speakers will include world-class experts and entrepreneurs in Philanthropy, Medicine, Communications, Education, and Technology. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
MS&E 254: The Ethical Analyst
The ethical responsibility for consequences of professional analysts who use technical knowledge in support of any individual, organization, or government. The means to form ethical judgments; questioning the desirability of physical coercion and deception as a means to reach any end. Human action and relations in society in the light of previous thought, and research on the desired form of social interactions. Attitudes toward ethical dilemmas through an explicit personal code.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Nesbitt, D. (PI)
;
Martinez, A. (TA)
MS&E 271: Global Entrepreneurial Marketing
Introduces core marketing concepts to bring a new product or service to market and build for its success. Geared to both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs alike who have a passion for innovation. Course themes include: Identifying markets and opportunities, defining the offering and customer experience, creating demand, generating revenue, and measuring success. The team-based final focuses on developing a go-to-market strategy based on concepts from the course. Learn about managing self, building culture and teams, strategically think about your contribution as entrepreneur or intrapreuneur to an organization, community or society at large. Highly experiential and project based. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Smith, L. (PI)
;
Woo, V. (PI)
;
Patro, S. (TA)
;
Sha, R. (TA)
;
Solorzano Cervantes, D. (TA)
MS&E 273: Technology Venture Formation
Open to graduate students interested in technology driven start-ups. Provides the experience of an early-stage entrepreneur seeking initial investment, including: team building, opportunity assessment, customer development, go-to-market strategy, and IP. Teaching team includes serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Student teams validate the business model using R&D plans and financial projections, and define milestones for raising and using venture capital. Final exam is an investment pitch delivered to a panel of top tier VC partners. In addition to lectures, teams interact with mentors and teaching team weekly. Enrollment by application:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande273. Recommended: 270, 271, or equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
MS&E 274: Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy
Primarily for graduate students. How entrepreneurial strategy focuses on creating structural change or responding to change induced externally. Grabber-holder dynamics as an analytical framework for developing entrepreneurial strategy to increase success in creating and shaping the diffusion of new technology or product innovation dynamics. Topics: First mover versus follower advantage in an emerging market; latecomer advantage and strategy in a mature market; strategy to break through stagnation; and strategy to turn danger into opportunity. Modeling, case studies, and term project.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
MS&E 275: Intelligent Growth in Startups
Explore the foundational and strategic elements needed for startups to be designed for "venture scale" at inception. Themes include controversial and disruptive insights, competitive analysis, network effects, organizational design, and capital deployment. Case studies, expert guests, and experiential learning projects will be used. Primarily for graduate students. Limited enrollment. Admission by application. Recommended: basic accounting.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Miura-Ko, R. (PI)
;
Poduval, A. (TA)
MS&E 276: Entrepreneurial Management and Finance
For graduate students only, with a preference for engineering and science majors. Emphasis on managing high-growth, early-stage enterprises, especially those with innovation-based products and services. Students work in teams to develop skills and approaches necessary to becoming effective entrepreneurial leaders and managers. Topics include assessing risk, understanding business models, analyzing key operational metrics, modeling cash flow and capital requirements, evaluating sources of financing, structuring and negotiating investments, managing organizational culture and incentives, managing the interplay between ownership and growth, and handling adversity and failure. Limited enrollment. Admission by application. Prerequisite: basic accounting.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
MS&E 277: Creativity and Innovation
This ambitious course focuses on factors for unlocking innovation and entrepreneurship in prison. In partnership with The Last Mile at San Quentin State Prison, students will learn the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to frame and reframe problems, challenge assumptions, generate innovative ideas, and tell compelling stories to communicate their ideas. Students will work collaboratively with the men at San Quentin on a project related to incarceration. Tuesday sessions are experiential workshops and Thursdays are a required lab for team work. Enrollment is limited, and requires an application and interview.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Seelig, T. (PI)
MS&E 472: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders' Seminar
Learn about entrepreneurship, innovation, culture, startups and strategy from a diverse lineup of accomplished leaders and entrepreneurs in venture capital, technology, education, philanthropy and more. Open to all Stanford students. Required weekly assignment. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Filter Results: