Next academic year

Entrepreneurship

Module aims

 Module outline:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/programmes/undergraduate-study/bpes-modules/course-content/

Reading list

Week 01

• The smart entrepreneur how to build for a successful business

  Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

  Elliott & Thompson

• The upside of uncertainty : a guide to finding possibility in the unknown

  Furr, Nathan R., author.

  Harvard Business Review Press

• The Discipline of Innovation

  Peter Drucker

  Harvard Business Publishing

• Technology ventures [electronic resource] : from idea to enterprise

  Byers, Thomas

  2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

  Clayton M. Christensen

• Craig, N and Snook, S (2014). From Purpose to Impact. Harvard Business Review.

  Craig, N and Snook, S

Week 02

• The lean startup : how constant innovation creates radically successful businesses

  Ries, Eric, 1978-.

  Portfolio Penguin

• Running Lean.

  Maurya, Ash.

  3rd ed., O'Reilly Media Incorporated

• The unicorn's shadow : combating the dangerous myths that hold back startups, founders, and investors

  Mollick, Ethan, 1975- author.

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wharton School Press

• The Business Model Book: Design, build and adapt business ideas that drive business growth

  Bock, Adam J ; George, Gerard

  Pearson Education Limited

• Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model

  John Mullins, Randy Komisar

  Harvard Business Publishing

• Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life

  Cyril Bouquet ; Jean-Louis Barsoux ; Michael Wade

  Harvard business review Harvard Business Review

• Disciplined entrepreneurship : 24 steps to a successful startup

  Aulet, Bill, 1958- author.

  Wiley

• Creativity Rules : Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

  Seelig, Tina

• What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 - 10th Anniversary Edition : A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World

  Seelig, Tina

Week 03

• Running Lean.

  Maurya, Ash.

  3rd ed., O'Reilly Media Incorporated

• The Mom Test

  Fitzpatrick, Rob,

  Rob Fitzpatrick

• The mom test : how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

  Fitzpatrick, Rob (Entrepreneur), author.

  California : Createspace Independent Learning Platform

• The smart entrepreneur how to build for a successful business

  Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

  Elliott & Thompson

• Where to play : 3 steps for discovering your most valuable market opportunities

  Gruber, Marc, author.

  Harlow, England : Pearson

Week 04

• The smart entrepreneur how to build for a successful business

  Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

  Elliott & Thompson

• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

  Blank, Steve ; Dorf, Bob

  John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

• The four steps to the epiphany : successful strategies for products that win

  Blank, Steven G. (Steven Gary), author.

  Fifth edition., Wiley

Week 05

• The unicorn's shadow : combating the dangerous myths that hold back startups, founders, and investors

  Mollick, Ethan, 1975- author.

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wharton School Press

• Running Lean.

  Maurya, Ash.

  3rd ed., O'Reilly Media Incorporated

Week 06

• The right it : why so many ideas fail and how to make sure yours succeed

  Savoia, Alberto, author.

  First edition., New York, NY : HarperOne

• Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation

  Osterwalder, Alexander ; Bland, David J

  John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

• The smart entrepreneur how to build for a successful business

  Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

  Elliott & Thompson

• Lean startup and the business model: Experimentation revisited

  Felin, Teppo ; Gambardella, Alfonso ; Stern, Scott ; Zenger, Todd

  Long range planning Elsevier BV

Week 08

• The smart entrepreneur how to build for a successful business

  Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

  Elliott & Thompson

• New venture creation : entrepreneurship for the 21st century

  Spinelli, Stephen.

  9th ed., International ed., McGraw-Hill/Irwin

• Blank, S. (2018). Why Tech Founders Need a Moral Compass. eCorner

• Essentials of entrepreneurship and small business management / Norman M. Scarborough, Jeffrey R. Cornwall

  Scarborough, Norman M., author.

  9th ed.,

• 12 Books That Every Leader Should Read

  Robert Sutton

• Technology ventures [electronic resource] : from idea to enterprise

  Byers, Thomas

  2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

• Quincy

  Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks

  Netflix

• The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers

  Horowitz, Ben, author.

  HarperCollins Publishers

Week 09

• Technology ventures [electronic resource] : from idea to enterprise

  Byers, Thomas

  2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

• The unicorn's shadow : combating the dangerous myths that hold back startups, founders, and investors

  Mollick, Ethan, 1975- author.

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wharton School Press

• An entrepreneur's guide to the venture capital galaxy

  De Clercq, D. ; Fried, V.H. ; Lehtonen, O. ; Sapienza, H.J.

  Academy of Management Perspectives Academy of Management

• Venture deals : be smarter than your lawyer and venture capitalist /

  Feld, Brad,

  Fourth edition., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,

• Technology ventures [electronic resource] : from idea to enterprise

  Byers, Thomas

  2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

• New venture creation : entrepreneurship for the 21st century

  Spinelli, Stephen,

  Tenth edition.; International student edition., McGraw-Hill Education; McGraw-Hill Education

• The smart entrepreneur how to build for a successful business

  Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

  Elliott & Thompson

Week 10

• Whistleblower Shook Theranos And His Family --- Tyler Shultz wanted to shield reputation of grandfather George Shultz, a Theranos director

  John Carreyrou

  The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition Eastern edition, Dow Jones & Company Inc

• The Ethical Engineer: Contemporary Concepts and Cases

  McGinn, Robert E.

• The unique vulnerabilities of entrepreneurial ventures to misconduct

  Palmer, D

  Emerald

Module leaders

Dr Tim Weiss