Awards & Courses
Innovation in Education
and Business
Awards and Honors
Executive, Graduate & Undergraduate Courses
Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship (ICE)
A unique, multidisciplinary and ground-breaking course which teaches the mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets of leading executives and entrepreneurs. A transformational experience for those ready to accept the mission of creating breakthroughs in life, business and careers.
Strategic Transformation & Change Management
A course that converges strategy and business transformation for change agents to leverage in scaling ideas, teams, organizations and impact.
Social Innovation
Students design teams, proof of concepts (POCs), and minimal viable products (MVPs) as well as prototypes and pilot programs for ideas that impact humanity and society. Learn best practices to build advisory boards, create strategic partnerships, and raise capital.
D^3: Disruptive Innovation, Digital Transformation & Design Thinking
An executive course that converges the disruption mindset, innovation frameworks, and design-thinking models for the digital era - defined by accelerating, disruptive, and exponential change.
Tech-Entrepreneurship & Commercialization (CTEC)
An advanced, interdisciplinary, graduate course series that covers the spectrum of patented technologies to product ideas to business models to commercial launch of ventures. Immersion in ideation techniques, functional and strategic assessments, business model design, and commercialization strategies. Diverse student teams from business school (MBAs, JDs) and STEM schools (MS, PhDs) including engineering, computer science, medical school, and pharmacy school collaborate to develop new ventures.
Entrepreneurship Law
Senior law students learn various aspects of law including business, corporate, securities, financing, employment, technology and fundamentals of intellectual property. This clinic law firm represents real startup ventures in various aspects of company formation, organization, transactions and legal research.
Opportunity Identification & Assessment
Executive MBA students learn how to identify opportunities and assess ideas and business models for entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial aspirations. Student teams immerse in business case studies and develop business plans for new high-growth ventures.
Innovation for Corporate Enterprises
Executive leaders and managers learn effective frameworks and models of innovation for corporate environments. Content includes the latest cutting edge case studies and simulations.
Driving Innovation in Business Solutions
Executive leaders, managers, and employees learn the 5-D Framework (Discover, Diagnose, Design, Develop and Deliver) for innovative solutions. Topics include Customer Discovery, Product-Market Fit, Operational Excellence, Agile/Lean Methodologies, Design Principles and Tools, Design-Thinking, and POC/MVP Prototyping.
Women who Launch
An interesting course on women founders, entrepreneurial leaders and corporate executives. Focus is on the founders' mindsets and execution strategies as well as success and failure case studies.
Black & LatinX Tech Accelerator
A unique 6 week accelerator sponsored by the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development @Rutgers University - The mission is to provide Black, Latin X, and Women founders with training, coaching, mentorship, networking, resources, and access to potential funding opportunities via accelerators, angel investments, venture capital, and corporate partnerships.
Business Policy & Strategy / Management
Leadership concepts in external and internal assessments (markets, industry, competitive sets, and internal organizations), strategy formulation, and performance measurement. Case studies on thought-leadership and best management practices from visionary executive leaders.