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Entrepreneurship Courses & Faculty


Entrepreneurship Classes

Whether you are an entrepreneurial-minded researcher, scientist, technologist or future business leader, NYU courses cover entrepreneurship for students seeking introductory or advanced classes, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. A partial list of the courses offered is listed below. Please consult Alfred or your school’s registrar for classes currently being offered.

Carter Journalism Institute

  • Entrepreneurial Journalism   

Leonard N. Stern School of Business 

  • Accounting, Tax, & Legal Issues for Entrepreneurs
  • Advanced Social Entrepreneurship
  • Business Start-up Practicum
  • Corporate Venturing
  • Economics of Healthcare
  • Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation
  • Entrepreneurial Selling
  • Entrepreneurship & Law in Practice
  • Entrepreneurship for the New Economy
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation and Design
  • Managing Growing Companies
  • Managing People and Teams
  • Marketing for Entrepreneurs 
  • Negotiating Complex Transactions with Executives and Lawyers
  • New Product Development
  • New Product Marketing and Design
  • Operations for Global Entrepreneurs
  • Patterns of Entrepreneurship
  • Pharmaceutical Marketing
  • Preparation for Careers in Innovative Entrepreneurship
  • Ready, FIRE!, Aim
  • Sales Management
  • Search and the New Economy
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Social Venture Capital
  • Social Venture Fund Practicum
  • Technology Innovation & New Product Development
  • The New Economy, Networks, and Digital Convergence
  • Venture Capital Financing 

Polytechnic Institute

  • Biotechnology and Health Care
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Entrepreneurial Marketing and Sales
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
  • High-Technology Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation Management
  • Intellectual Property for Technology and Information Managers
  • Introduction to Corporate Entrepreneurship
  • Introduction to E-Business
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurial Marketing and Sales
  • Introduction to Managing Growing Enterprises
  • Management Strategy in Technology Sectors
  • Managing Growing Enterprises
  • Managing Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
  • Managing Technological Change and Innovation
  • Project in Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship
  • Technology Strategy


School of Law

  • Antitrust in High-Tech Industries
  • Biotech Patent Law
  • Colloquium on Innovation Policy
  • Copyright Law
  • Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge- The Politics of Law, Knowledge and Culture Seminar
  • Intellectual Property Law & Globalization Seminar
  • Intellectual Property Policy Seminar
  • International Intellectual Property Law
  • Law & Innovation Seminar
  • Patent Law
  • Social Venture Capital
  • Survey of Intellectual Property 
  • Venture Capital
  • Venture Capital Financing


School of Medicine

  • Drug Development in a New Era   


Tisch School of the Arts

  • Entrepreneurship and The Entertainment Business
  • Entrepreneurship in The Music Industry
  • Internship/Career Skills for the Music Entrepreneur
  • Music Producer as Creative Entrepreneur 
  • Producing: Artistic Entrepreneurship
  • Social Entrepreneurship in Music
  • Women as Entrepreneurs in Popular Music


Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

  • The Business and Psychology of Social Entrepreneurship
  • Finance for Social Entrepreneurs
  • Fundamentals of Social Entrepreneurship: Problem Solving and Innovation
  • Global Social Entrepreneurship: Field Experience
  • Practicum in Social Entrepreneurship
  • Social Entrepreneurship: Three Modalities for Change
  • Understanding Social Entrepreneurship: How to Change the World One Venture at a Time


School of Continuing and Professional Studies

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship & Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship for Hospitality & Tourism
  • Entrepreneurship in Sports
  • International Entrepreneurship
  • Professional Seminar: Entrepreneurial Thinking
  • Rapid Change & The Entrepreneurial Organization
  • Technological Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Faculty

NYU faculty are engaged in cutting-edge entrepreneurship research and practice, in emerging and established industries. Throughout the university, students can find clinical, adjunct and tenured professors and executives-in-residence offering foundational and advanced graduate courses in entrepreneurship. A partial list of full-time faculty engaged in teaching and research relating to entrepreneurship are list below.


Leonard N. Stern School of Business

  • William Baumol
  • Jeff Carr
  • Cynthia Franklin
  • Ari Ginsberg
  • Jason Greenberg
  • Steven Godeke
  • Jill Kickul
  • Lawrence Lenihan
  • Glenn Okun
  • Roy C. Smith
  • Luke Williams

Polytechnic Institute

  • Jabril Bensedrine
  • Anne-Laure Fayard
  • Sanjay Ghandi
  • Mel Horwitch
  • Harold Kaufman
  • Jianxi Liu
  • Joseph Nadan
  • Oded Nov
  • Bharat Rao
  • Nina Dansky Ziv

School of Law

  • Amy Adler
  • Oren Bar-Gill
  • Barton Beebe
  • Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
  • Harry First
  • Eleanor Fox
  • Stephen Gillers
  • Lewis Kornhauser
  • Andreas Lowenfeld
  • Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
  • Helen Scott
  • Katherine Strandburg
  • Diane Zimmerman

Tisch School of the Arts

  • Lauren Davis
  • Errol Kolosine
  • Jeffrey Rabhan

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