The Key to Sustainable Growth.
As a business grows, it relies more and more on systems to operate effectively. The first type of systems that support operations include financial management, marketing, sales, human resources, production, and inventory. The second type of systems are the management systems that support effective planning, communications, and control. This course examines the various types of critical systems that support business growth and help explain how to know what systems to build and when they need to be put in place.
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.
