Principles of Entrepreneurship: Business Model Design & Financial Strategy introduces students to the foundational concepts, frameworks, and ethical commitments that shape how value is created, delivered, and sustained in entrepreneurial contexts. Centered on business model design and financial strategy, the course invites students to examine entrepreneurship not merely as execution or venture launch, but as a disciplined practice of stewardship, discernment, and decision-making in service of human flourishing.

Through engagement with field-defining texts, contemporary frameworks, and real-world case studies, students explore how mission, values, vision, and vocation inform economic choices—such as revenue models, cost structures, funding strategies, and growth assumptions. The course emphasizes interpretation and judgment over speed, helping students understand why certain models work, for whom, and at what cost.

Learning is anchored in guided reading, facilitated dialogue, reflective writing, and practitioner engagement, enabling students to develop a principled understanding of business model design and financial strategy that integrates economic competence with ethical imagination.

Areas of Inquiry:

• Economics of Enough: Reframing profit, generosity, and sustainability in a wisdom economy.
• Financial Models that Serve People: Building regenerative and transparent business models.
• Capital & Calling: Integrating personal conviction with capital allocation and investor alignment.

Principles of Entrepreneurship is taken in tandem with Entrepreneurial Practice.

Practice

Entrepreneurial Practice: Business Model Design & Financial Strategy is an applied lab in which students develop practical competence by designing, testing, and refining business models and financial strategies in live contexts. Running concurrently with the Principles course, this lab focuses on translating conceptual understanding into real-world practice through experimentation, iteration, and reflection-in-action.

Students apply their work toward one of the following contexts:

• A personal venture or startup concept
• A portfolio of entrepreneurial or consulting assets
• A project or initiative embedded within an internship or organizational setting

The course is guided through a hybrid model of coaching, mentorship, and facilitated learning, emphasizing adaptive execution, financial clarity, and responsible decision-making. Students learn to navigate uncertainty, test assumptions, and refine strategies while remaining attentive to formation, values, and impact.