MGT602 Themes 1-7

q Entrepreneurship is a buzz word these days. Everyone is talking about entrepreneurship or wants to be an entrepreneur.

q Entrepreneurship is all about doing your own business and entrepreneur is a person who sets up a business

q Seek or create a job! Why all entities like government, educational and financial institution are supporting entrepreneurship? What if all graduates students are job seekers? What if no one is creating a firm? Then, who will create jobs?

Introduction of Entrepreneurship

q Entrepreneurship is a great source of creating jobs, creates a balance between job seekers and job-creators, and stimulates healthy economic growth

q Interesting questions while discussing entrepreneurship:

What is an entrepreneurship?

Is it a new discipline?

Is it a process?

Is it an attitude?

Who is an entrepreneur?

Are entrepreneurs so smart, supper intelligent, super genius, innovative, risk lover?

q Who should watch this course MGT602?

q Can you learn entrepreneurship ?

Theme 01 q Resource Persons:

Miss Noreen Zahra Ali, Assistant Professor of Management Sciences at Virtual University of Pakistan. Dr. Rizwan Saleem Sandhu, Assistant Professor of Management Sciences at Virtual University of Pakistan.

q Recommended Books:

1. Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures by Bruce Barringer and R. Duane Ireland
2. Entrepreneurship by Robert Hisrich, Michael Petters and Dean Shepherd
3. Essentials of entrepreneurship and small business management by Thomas Zimmerer and Norman Scarborough
4. Small Business Management by Justin G. Longenecker, Carlos W. Moore, J. William Petty and Leslie E. Palich

q Expected outcome of this course: After attending this course you will be in a better position to assess the business opportunities and do better business and tactfully handle the growth issue.

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