Course curriculum

    1. About 4th Sector Academy

    2. How to use this course

    3. Pre-test

    4. Let us know a bit more about you

    1. Join The Virtual Community Forum for Modern Business and Innovation

    2. A message from Chapman University's Director of Entrepreneurship

    3. Formal development for entrepreneurs at Chapman University

    4. Virtual tour of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics

    5. Mentorship and Entrepreneurs in Residence at Chapman

    6. What is in it for me?

    7. Focused Leadership Using Innovation Vectors

    8. Purpose alignment learning check

    1. Why did we create Essentials in Modern Business and Innovation?

    2. Shifting paradigms

    3. What are the essentials in modern business?

    4. The Dynamic Duo

    5. Dynamic Duo Exploration

    6. Modern Business and Innovation Learning Check

    1. Video: Definition of innovation and why "new" is not enough

    2. Stakeholders, Obsession, Empathy, and Instantaneous Innovation

    3. Go Deeper: 4th Sector Innovations' Integrated Innovation System

    4. Innovation Learning Check

    1. Video: Definition of Entrepreneurship and why its not just about start-ups

    2. Resource savvy to the core

    3. Linear growth and necessity-based vs Exponential growth opportunity-based entrepreneurship

    4. Customers 101 and why they are not always right

    5. Entrepreneurship Learning Check

    1. Stakeholder Discovery

    2. Why the hardest reality is always better than the convenience of fantasy

    3. Hypothesis Testing, Critical Assumptions, and Rapid Validation

    4. Seeking Truth Learning Check

About this course

  • Free
  • 42 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content