Growing Your Business to the Next Level!
Navigating the growth of a business is one of the most challenging, and potentially perilous, stages for entrepreneurs. Many businesses fail during growth not because there is a lack of demand for their products or services, but because the entrepreneur is not prepared for the new challenges that arise during the growth stage. This course organizes the many challenges entrepreneurs face while growing their businesses into eight categories. Although not every business faces all of these challenges, failing to understand how to successfully address even one or two of them can lead to business failure.
Field of Study: Business Management & Organization
Entrepreneur / Professor / Author
Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the inaugural recipient of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He also was founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont, and led the Center for the first ten years of its operation. He has a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. In the late 1980’s, Dr. Cornwall left academics for a nine year “sabbatical” to become the co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Cornwall has received national awards for his work in curriculum development and teaching, and in 2013 he was named the National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He has published ten books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship.
