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Business Skills for PhDs in Academia and Beyond: What does it take to be an entrepreneur?
by GradFUTURES
Louis A. Simpson B60
Louis A. Simpson B60, Princeton, NJ, United States
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Instructor: Swati Bhatt, *86 ECO, Bendheim Center
Session Description: In this session, we will examine startups in the context of launching online businesses. The cases of GrubHub and TaskRabbit in the U.S. and FreshFresh in Shanghai will be studied.
Cohort Description: Most people associate the term “business” with the private sector. However, business skills and models are widely applied in every sector: public, private and non-profit (which includes academia). You are acquiring many transferable skills in your Ph.D. program that can be applied in academic roles as well as within a variety of industries and job functions. Join the business skills learning cohort to better understand foundational concepts and language of business. This learning cohort includes experiential learning in the form of group capstone presentations under guidance of alum mentors.
Broad Topics include:
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Purpose, ethics, and responsibility: stakeholder theory
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Analysis of strategy and operations
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Data science in business
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Leadership and mentoring
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Negotiation
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Financial 360
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Business Communications
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Business of higher ed
Speakers
Swati Bhatt
Faculty Lecturer
Princeton University
Swati Bhatt received her Ph.D. from the Princeton Economics Department in 1986 and has been a faculty member there since 1992. Her research interests include the economics of digitization and industrial organization with a focus on the technology industry. She has taught Economics of the Internet (ECO326) since 2013 and the Freshman Seminar, the Digital Bazaar, since 2017. Previously, (2007-2012) she taught Intermediate Microeconomics and Industrial Organization. She is a Forbes Faculty Fellow as well as Athletics Fellow for Princeton Football (since 2016) and has supervised over 150 senior theses. Her publications include How Digital Communication Technology Shapes Markets (2017), The Attention Deficit: Unintended Consequences of Digital Connectivity (2019) and Entrepreneurship Today: The Resurgence of Small Technology-Driven Businesses (forthcoming 2022).
She was Director of Student Programs at the Bendheim Center for Finance from 2000-2007. Bhatt was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1985-1990) and taught at New York University's Stern School of Business (1990-1992).