ECN3630 Industrial Organization & Public Policy
4 Advanced Liberal Arts Elective CreditsStrategic decisions that firms make on a wide range of issues such as market entry, entry deterrence, supply chain development, outsourcing and vertical integration, diversification, mergers and acquisitions, product positioning and managing innovation are the topics of this advanced course in the economic analysis of markets. Industrial Organization teaches students how market structure (or the nature of competition in a market) and the inter-relations between industries influence firm performance, and how understanding these linkages enables firms to identify opportunities and risks. Public policy and its role in industrial organization, through anti-trust enforcement for example, is important for entrepreneurs and business leaders trying to understand the rules of competition for their industries. Students will also learn to apply basic Game Theory to various aspects of strategic business decision making. Cases from a wide range of industries are used to illustrate successful business strategies.

Prerequisites: SME2031 or ECN2002

OIM6110 Information Technology

This course prepares students to become digital innovators-global entrepreneurs and business leaders who can make strategic business decisions involving data, digital products, and digital services; experiment with information technologies and platforms; build and work in diverse teams; and create social, environmental and economic value from data in a business context.

EPS 7508: Initiation of Corporate ventures

3 elective credits

The course focuses on ways to profitably exploit business opportunities (as opposed to what opportunity to pursue). It will allow you to acquire the skill set necessary for crafting a winning business model for your venture - developing and writing a concise, coherent, effective, and complete business development plan and prepare you to gain support within a mature corporation for your plan.

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Prerequisite's: EPS 9501

EPS4520 Innovation Odyssey: Silicon Valley Insider
4 General Credits

Silicon Valley and the surrounding Bay Area is known for being the foundation of many iconic companies from startups to some of the most recognized technology brands in the world. The area brings some of the most innovative people together to collaborate, innovate, and build entrepreneurial empires. While entrepreneurship can be seen throughout the world, many developing entrepreneurial ecosystems are inspired by the beginnings of technology revolutions that have driven the world economy and were started in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.

This immersive travel course is designed to give Babson students the chance to learn about how Silicon Valley started, the people who keep it going today, and how they can think about the kinds of companies they want to join or start as their careers develop. They will also meet and experience some of the unique places to explore in the Bay Area. Over the last decade, the epicenter of entrepreneurial activity in the region has expanded to San Francisco. So, this trip will include both Silicon Valley and the tech hub in San Francisco.

The course will begin with some prep-work during the fall semester prior to the trip. It will continue through the spring as you work on an experiential learning project, concluding with presentations to the innovative nonprofit organizations students engage with during the trip.

This will be an experiential course filled with:

• Meetings with some of the innovators of today and yesterday
• Meeting all types of entrepreneurs and innovators thinking about, imagining and creating the future
• Engaging in learning and experiences that exemplify what it might be like to live in the Silicon Valley - Bay Area innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
• Creating a class blog to tell our trip story
• Learn to use tools that can help you imagine and strategize for the future

OIM9550 Innovating with Wearable Technology
1.5 Intensive Elective Credits

Meeting Dates TBD

Drop Deadline TBD

Digital entrepreneurs should be agile experimenters, capable of innovating by combining available technologies and services into digital products and platforms. In this course students will learn about the lean digital startup and follow agile principles to conceive and create a wearable technology device with a clear value proposition. The course will include an introduction to wearable hardware programming and involve hands-on work with an open source wearable technology prototyping platform.

EPS3542: Innovation Ecosystems of Spain

4 advanced management credits (Elective Abroad)

Startup Ecosystems of Spain is a study abroad course designed to introduce Babson undergraduate students to the diverse Spanish economy with emphasis on the regional innovation ecosystems of Madrid and Barcelona. It examines the challenges that Spain has faced in recovering from the global financial crisis and evolving after the global pandemic COVID-19. It involves a multidisciplinary orientation at Babson followed by a 10-day study tour to Madrid and Barcelona. Students will meet on-site with executives from some of the top startup and multinational organizations in Spain.

Prerequisite: Application through Glavin Office

LAW3675 INNOVATION LAW AND POLICY
(FORMERLY INNOVATION AND THE LAW: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION)
4 Advanced Liberal Arts CreditsInnovation is often praised as a key to entrepreneurship and economic growth. For this reason, intellectual property law seeks to stimulate innovation beyond competitive free market levels through through patents, designs, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks. At the same time, other areas of law such as safety, advertising, consumer protection and antitrust law may be called upon to regulate possible negative effects from innovation. This course explores how these areas of law apply to innovation to ask the ultimate question, how should the legal system best encourage or regulate innovation, if at all?

Prerequisites: LAW1000

OIM9521 Innovation Processes
1.5 Intensive Elective Credits

Over the past two decades, a combination of changes in political, technological, and cultural arenas have dramatically affected the way in which companies, organizations, and individuals innovate. In this course, we will explore the critical parameters of various innovation processes, learn about their advantages and disadvantages, and compare the contexts in which these processes operate. The goal of this course is to develop an understanding of what it takes to design and operate various innovation processes.

In the first offering of the course, the emphasis will be placed on open innovation processes, design thinking and lean start-up, and coordination issues of complex innovation processes. This course is positioned between our existing offerings Product Design and Development (MOB-7555), which provides an in-depth experience on the project level, and Leading Innovation: Creating Organic Growth (MOB-9525), which discusses managerial and strategic challenges on the firm level in the context of industry and competition. In contrast, the new course Innovation Processes will focus on the mechanisms of how design and manage effective innovation processes.

OIM3578 Integrated Product Design
4 Advanced Management Credits

You will work with industrial design students from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (in Boston) and engineering students from Olin College of Engineering to develop new products through projects that are student-generated. Students learn first-hand about the techniques and contributions different disciplines bring to product design and practice collaboration common in professional design settings. This course provides valuable multidisciplinary preparation for students interested to work in innovation projects in established firms or develop and launch their own consumer products. Class will be held once a week and rotate between all three campuses.

Interested Wellesley students should cross-register in this course at Olin under ENGR3250.

Prerequisites: (SME2001 and SME2002) and EPS4515 or EPS4527 or DES3600

Students must have completed ONE (1) of the following courses.

Students who have completed a course from Olin College, from the prerequisite course list, must contact the Registrar for a Pre-Requisite Waiver.

ENGR 2250 (Olin College) User-oriented Collaborative Design
ENGR 1200 (Olin College) Design Nature
ENGR 2199 (Olin College) Engineering for Humanity
ENGR 3220 (Olin College) Human Factors and Interface Design

WRT1000 Intensive Rhetoric Writing Tutorial
Foundation Liberal ArtsPrerequisites: None