Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs is a
new course for business students, geeks, and other undergraduates who
want to do something out of the ordinary. The world faces some
extraordinary challenges in innovation, big data,
food and water, energy, education, careers, poverty, etc. This course
will explore those grand challenges—and the opportunities that come with
them. Students will examine how solutions to these massive challenges
can be researched, validated, and implemented
using entrepreneurial creativity, opportunity recognition, business
models, pivoting, and skilled execution.