Partners and Partnerships
What you'll learn
- The proper mindset, model, and plan for entering into business partnership.
Requirements
- Students are encouraged to be contemplating or preparing to enter into a business partnership.
Description
Business partnerships are complex relationships that can be as difficult to navigate as a
marriage. Many successful ventures end in failure, not from problems with their business
models, but from deeply troubled relationships among their owners. This course walks through
the challenges of establishing and sustaining successful business partnerships from their initial
formation through establishing a successful business venture.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone seeking small business ownership or partnership.
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Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 84 Reviews
- 70,751 Students
- 3 Courses
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 nine books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship. His blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, is among the most popular with a focus on small business and entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurial Mind is part of the Forbes blog network and was named by that magazine as a “Best of the Web.”