This course walks through the challenges of establishing and sustaining successful business partnerships from their initial formation through establishing a successful business venture.
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.
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.
