
Gain the skills, connections and confidence you need to turn a great idea into a successful business enterprise or to lead an existing business to even greater success.
Gain the skills, connections and confidence you need to turn a great idea into a successful business enterprise or to lead an existing business to even greater success.
Every successful entrepreneur started out with an idea and a dream, but also the grit and business savvy to turn them both into a reality. Our innovative program gives you a strong foundation in business practices, sharpens your business management skills and teaches you how to think and make decisions like the most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders. You’ll develop and improve business ideas through team and individual projects and also have the opportunity to pitch your ideas in regional and national business plan competitions.
This program’s courses cover the range of topics and issues most relevant to building a company, from Entrepreneurial Creativity and Opportunity Recognition to Negotiation and Supply Chain Management. You’ll learn from a rich network of experienced faculty and staff who will provide the guidance necessary to launch a business or join a burgeoning company.
Whether it’s in the classroom, during internships or at one of the School of Business’s many networking events, you’ll tap into the expertise and experience of local and national company executives, as well as small business owners who have achieved success. Another powerful resource is the M&T Bank Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where you can bring business ideas to life, receive mentorship and advisory services, and take workshops in legal issues, finance, research, marketing, design, business plan development and start-up mentoring.
The second most in-demand skill on LinkedIn‘s 2020 Workplace Learning Report is creative problem solving & design thinking.
The median starting salary for program graduates.
Percentage of our 2021 program graduates who are either employed or enrolled in a graduate program six months after graduation.
The Innovation Hub provides students with a uniquely collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunity by bringing together the university’s innovation ecosystem. It delivers dedicated spaces — physical ones and virtual ones — that spark exciting new ways to create 21st-century solutions and act as an incubator for entrepreneurial pursuits across the university.
A business development representative is a specialized role related to the sales department of a company. While a sales representative works with existing clients to keep them happy and serve their needs, business development reps seek out and build new business for their company.
Sales representatives sell products and services for a company, either directly to consumers or to other businesses.
Account executives are responsible for looking after the company‘s clients as well as keeping the company-client relationships at a high standard. Their goal is to increase the amount of business a company does with those clients.
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