Where: Building 19, Level 3, Conference Hall 1 & 2
Credit: 22
Description
KAUST Cornell Entrepreneurship Program
KAUST is pleased to announce a partnership with Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management to offer a certificate program in entrepreneurship.
This forward-thinking program, available by pre-selection only, will provide KAUST participants with a unique opportunity to obtain an Ivy League entrepreneurship education without leaving Saudi Arabia. The course is designed to help students to identify, evaluate, and commercialize technology opportunities. Through interactive sessions, participants will engage in both classroom and fieldwork experiences to learn essential skills for becoming a successful entrepreneur.
Participants who complete the program will be awarded a formal certificate of completion from Cornell University.
About this course
This 7-days course covers the basic process of how to move from generating a new business idea to turning that idea into a real business. Among other topics, participants will learn fundamental principles of entrepreneurship including ideation, customer engagement, marketing, accounting, raising capital, negotiations, and leading new ventures. Throughout the week participants will gain actual experience in applying these principles as they work together on a team to generate and evaluate a new business idea. Teams will receive mentoring and coaching from professors and experienced entrepreneurs throughout the process and conclude the course by presenting their final business idea to a panel of judges.
One of only eight Ivy League universities, Cornell has a long history of fostering entrepreneurship and boasts an impressive list of distinctions; it is often ranked amongst the best universities in the United States and worldwide.
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Chad Carlos
Chad Carlos is an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University, recently ranked as the number 2 entrepreneurship program in the United States. He is also a regular guest lecturer at Cornell University, where he received his PhD. Professor Carlos has taught courses on entrepreneurship and innovation to students in various countries. His research focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and strategy in contexts such as health care, alternative energy, corporate sustainability, and university technology commercialization and has been published in top management journals including Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science. Prior to his academic career, he was a certified public accountant and a senior consultant with KPMG in their Silicon Valley office. In this capacity, Carlos specialized in helping technology clients such as Google, Hitachi, Palm, and Cypress Semiconductor mitigate financial risk and improve operational performance.
Ryan Coles
Ryan Coles is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University where he specializes in entrepreneurship and new venture strategy in emerging markets, innovation, and university technology commercialization. Coles has a master's degree in Organizational Theory from Cornell, a master's degree in Sociology and a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic both from Brigham Young University. Prior to working in academia, Ryan co-founded a "volun-tourism" company and a consulting company, both of which had operations in the Middle East. Ryan enjoys wrestling, waterskiing, snowboarding, and playing the piano. He and his wife, Chloe, are the proud parents of two kids.
Thomas Kurz
Thomas Kurz is the vice president of Strategic Partnerships for Q Squared Solutions BioSciences LLC. He is the co-founder of Advion BioSciences with Dr. Jack Henion and has nearly 30 years of business management experience. He also held the position of Chief Operating Officer for Advion BioSciences from 1993 through 2003, President of Advion BioSystems from 2003 through 2005, and President of Advion BioServices from late 2005 through late 2011. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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