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Building Your Own Business

Entrepreneurship in Business Design

Are you an entrepreneurial spirit? Have you been thinking about how you could create value by building a business? If you answered yes to these questions, enroll in Building Your Own Business. In this program, students learn the building blocks to create a business by using design techniques and shared language for describing, visualizing and assessing business models. Students work in teams to create a business and learn how to pitch what they created to potential investors.

Lewis Gale
Faculty Lead
Lewis Gale

Dean, Eberhardt School of Business

PhD in Economics, Arizona State University, 1994
MS in Economics, Arizona State University, 1994
BA in Economics, California State University-Fresno, 1989

Dr. Gale has deep experiences in business school leadership, serving as the Eberhardt School dean from 2010 to 2016 and as interim dean in 2021–22 and 2023–24. Previously he served as business school dean at Weber State University from 2005 to 2010 and at University of Louisiana-Lafayette from 2003 to 2005. Dr. Gale's primary area of research is international economics. His articles have ranged from international trade and the environment to import competition effects on domestic industries, from the responsiveness of elderly migration to state policy changes to regional economic development and prosperity.

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