MBA [MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION] COURSES

1. Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
2. The Entrepreneur: Creativity and Innovation
3. Small Business Entrepreneurship
4. Scanning the Business Environment
5. International Business Law

MASTER OF BUSINESS & POLICY STUDIES

6. Business Law and the Legal Environment
7. Entrepreneurship
8. Constitutional Law

MBA [MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION] COURSES

This course will enable students to explore the legal framework within which the entrepreneur must evolve. In addition the technological aspects and tax considerations for starting and developing new ventures have become intrinsically linked with entrepreneurial field. From incorporating a new venture to operating it on day by day basis and ensuring its financial success, legal survivability and sustainability the law, technology and tax considerations are critical for every entrepreneur.  

This course will examine the full array of topics and sub-topics that are critically pertinent to the entrepreneur including-but not exclusively-the following: What constitutes the essence of the entrepreneur or the entrepreneurial mind? identifying opportunities that can arise from challenges, wants and/or needs, preparing an effective, practical and realistic business plan. In addition the course will also focus on the process of assembling the new venture team, the importance of "ethics" for the entrepreneur and its ensuing benefits, evaluating a standing, emerging or new enterprise, financing related to the proper functioning and long-term growth of the enterprise, the entrepreneur's choices including franchising, and the legal parameters within which an enterprise must operate.  

This course we will examine how entrepreneurs undertake the tasks necessary for developing entrepreneurial ventures, both independently and within corporate settings. Students will also explore how entrepreneurs find, screen, and evaluate ideas and new business opportunities by developing a business concept. A business concept identifies particular customers and benefits and then specifies how these benefits are provided to customers through explicit channels of distribution.  

Scanning the Business Environment is a core course for Empire State College's MBA program. Upon successful completion of this course, students will understand the strategic management process and be able to use selected tools that help firms gain a competitive advantage in dynamic domestic and international markets.  

The aim of this course is to probe the global legal environment for international business. This is an area that every global manager must be familiar with given the complexity and interdependence of global markets.

The course reviews international law and organizations, the process for international dispute resolutions, sales contracts and terms of trade, liability of air and sea carriers in the transportation of goods across the globe, bank collections, trade finance and letters of credit.

This course also compares, contrasts and analyzes global, international and U.S. trade law as impacted by GATT law, the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, E.U. trade rules and regulations, unfair trade, and laws governing access to foreign markets and exports, as well as legal issues relating to global environmental, host-country tax, corporate, employment, privatization and currency risk.  

MASTER OF BUSINESS & POLICY STUDIES

This course examines the theoretical and practical applications of business law and the legal environment. More specifically major areas of law & the legal system will be analyzed including criminal, administrative, contracts, and torts law, business ethics and social responsibility, legal aspects of business and consumer transactions, commercial paper and banking, mortgages and bankruptcy agency law, partnership and corporate law, and domestic and international business transactions.  

This course examines the foundations, principles and concepts affiliated with entrepreneurship both at the theoretical and practical implementation levels. The topics that will be covered and analyzed include the benefits and pitfalls of managing and/or starting a new venture; the entrepreneurial historical perspective; how to start, develop and operate a new venture; the legal issues facing the entrepreneur.

In addition the foundational concepts pertaining to small business management and the field of small business will be examined. Lastly strategy and competitive advantage, matching strategy to the situation, and techniques for analyzing and implementing strategy will be delved into.  

This course is intended to cover the essentials of constitutional law through an overview of the document and its application via analysis and study of case law. The theoretical and practical applications of constitutional law including the major topics/areas covered include the history of constitutional interpretation, the Bill of Rights and its evolution in the judiciary over the last two centuries, and historical and contemporary constitutional issues, which directly affect the day to day interactions in American society.