Management & Entrepreneurship

About this opportunity

The Department of Management & Entrepreneurship offers a variety of distinct programs for students — all with a strong emphasis on collaboration, leadership, communication, and team-building skills, as well as project management and community engagement.

Students gain current and relevant knowledge of management and entrepreneurship practice and theory from an esteemed faculty of world-class researchers and teachers. 

Degrees in the department include: 

Management, BS 

The BS in management develops team-skilled, collaborative leaders with the ability to think strategically, solve people and process problems, and communicate in a project-oriented, digital environment. Our graduates are prepared for leading change in a world characterized by speed, increasing demands for enhancing the value chain through continuous process improvements, growing technological sophistication, and racial, cultural, and gender diversity in the workforce.

Business entrepreneurship, BS 

Learn to start your own business and create your own dream, while creating jobs and services in the community. The W. P. Carey BS in business entrepreneurship prepares students to identify, evaluate, and develop entrepreneurial opportunities, whether in existing companies or in new business ventures. Entrepreneurship students also benefit from the W. P. Carey Center for Entrepreneurship and its connection with the entrepreneurial community.

Entrepreneurial leadership, BA 

The BA in entrepreneurial leadership prepares students to lead new ventures, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. Offered through the School of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the ASU West Valley campus, this degree provides a flexible format for budding entrepreneurs. The program does not require calculus and is designed with fewer prerequisites.

Global leadership, BA 

Effective leadership is key to business success, especially for organizations with international reach and status. The 100% online BA in business with a concentration in global leadership develops strategic thinkers with strong international business acumen and leadership skills. You’ll study international management and leadership, learn to lead on a global scale, and graduate with immediate relevance in the global business world.

Human resources, BA 

Human resource management is the business function concerned with attracting, developing, evolving, motivating, and retaining a firm’s employee talent — also referred to as human capital. The BA in business with a concentration human resources delivers the requisite skills and knowledge to work in a variety of jobs involving employee recruitment, staffing, compensation and benefits, training and development, and employee relations.

Business law, BA 

Gain a systematic framework for analyzing real-world legal regulation and corresponding business risks and liabilities. The BA in business with a concentration in law prepares students for positions in a variety of professions in which business and law play an important role in ensuring success.

Thesis

Given the broad based and often interdisciplinary nature of our work within the Department, past Barrett Honors Thesis projects have varied topics. We have both traditional academic research thesis projects and many applied learning thesis projects from our department. Examples include projects developed based on student experiences while studying abroad or in their internships. Practical application and interdisciplinary projects are welcomed as well. 

The Department requires two faculty members. The second faculty member can be from any unit on campus. An optional third committee member can be anyone with sufficient expertise in the thesis topic.

For general college information on W. P. Carey thesis projects, including how to obtain permission to enroll in thesis credit, click here.

Academic Preparation

A W. P. Carey student would normally need to have completed either MGT 300, MGT 303 or MGT 380 to begin the thesis process with one of the Department's faculty members.

Recommended Timeline

Typically students begin work on their thesis one year out from graduation. By the end of their junior year it is expected that the student has identified an area of focus and a thesis committee. Students would take MGT 492 and MGT 493 (or ENT 492 and ENT 493) over two consecutive semesters.

Other Honors Opportunities

MGT 303 is the Department’s core course that is open to all honors students in W. P. Carey. All ENT, LES, MGT and WPC courses taught by our faculty, with the exception of MGT 300 (because there is an honors section MGT 303), may allow honors enrichment contracts to the discretion of the instructor, and as long as the instructor is a full-time faculty member.

Additionally, W. P. Carey is proud to offer a specialized honors version of core business curriculum. This honors version, offered in Fall and Spring semesters, takes a deeper dive into course material and allows students to engage on a higher level with their faculty and peers. Students of all business majors are able to access these courses:

• ACC 261 Honors Fundamentals of Financial Accounting covers ACC 231/232
• ACC 271 Honors Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting covers ACC 241/242
• CIS 236 Honors Information Systems covers CIS 105 & 236
• ECN 231 Honors Business Statistics covers ECN 221
• FIN 303 Honors Finance covers FIN 300/302
• MKT 303 Honors Marketing Theory & Practice covers MKT 300/302
• MGT 303 Honors Organizational Strategies/Leadership covers MGT 300
• SCM 303 Honors Global Supply Operations covers SCM 300