Jamey A. Darnell
Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Assistant Clinical Professor, Director of ENTI - Entrepreneurship and Innovation intercollege minor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 417 Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-0740
Email Address
jad961@psu.edu
Jamey A. Darnell
Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Assistant Clinical Professor, Director of ENTI - Entrepreneurship and Innovation intercollege minor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 417 Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-0740
Email Address
jad961@psu.edu
Jamey Darnell is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Management and Organization Department in Smeal. He has 20+ years collegiate teaching experience including (but not limited to) Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, International Management, Ethics, and Organizational Behavior. In addition, he has 10+ years higher education administrative experience.
Expertise
Entrepreneurship Pedagogy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics
Education
DBA, University of Florida, 2017
MBA, International Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1999
BS, International Business (Italian), Pepperdine University, 1998
Courses Taught
ENGR 425 – New Venture Creation (3)
Via problem-based learning, students define new business ventures to meet current market needs, develop business models, and present to various stakeholders. The goal of New Venture Creation is to better prepare undergraduate students to be leaders in adaptive, globally-minded, technology-savvy organizations. The course is structured so students develop skills that are of high value in any workplace: leadership skills, self-efficacy, creativity and the ability to deal with ambiguity. Upon course completion, students will have a working knowledge of traditional and non-traditional ways for identifying a new product or business opportunity, quantifying the potential, understanding the key competitive factors, researching the audience, and producing a convincing plan for financing and launch. Students who want to augment the skills and knowledge from their major with the ability to develop a new product/service/process, will find New Venture Creation a valuable course. This is a novel problem-based learning (PBL) course, where the learning is student-centered, with faculty acting primarily in the role of facilitators. Active/Experiential learning happens in this course because students develop ownership of their venture concepts and are fully responsible for the genesis of ideas.
IST 425 – New Venture Creation (3)
Via problem-based learning, students define new business ventures to meet current market needs, develop business models, and present to various stakeholders. The goal of New Venture Creation is to better prepare undergraduate students to be leaders in adaptive, globally-minded, technology-savvy organizations. The course is structured so students develop skills that are of high value in any workplace: leadership skills, self-efficacy, creativity and the ability to deal with ambiguity. Upon course completion, students will have a working knowledge of traditional and non-traditional ways for identifying a new product or business opportunity, quantifying the potential, understanding the key competitive factors, researching the audience, and producing a convincing plan for financing and launch. Students who want to augment the skills and knowledge from their major with the ability to develop a new product/service/process, will find New Venture Creation a valuable course. This is a novel problem-based learning (PBL) course, where the learning is student-centered, with faculty acting primarily in the role of facilitators. Active/Experiential learning happens in this course because students develop ownership of their venture concepts and are fully responsible for the genesis of ideas.
MBADM 850 – CORP INNOV & ENTR (3)
This course focuses on understanding, exploring, and applying innovation-related concepts, principles, and practices to corporate environments involved with product development, new venture creation, and other contexts, such as startup companies. Innovation and creativity are examined from multiple perspectives and levels of analysis, including individual, team, organization, industry, business process, culture, and technology, to name a few. In addition, this course seeks to demonstrate how innovation, and its associated best practices, can be integrated and applied to improve organizational performance. This course is intended to provide a broad overview of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship that students can build upon in a work or educational setting. Students will learn the basics of how to assess innovation competency maturity, perform innovation processes and activities in an organization, and identify opportunities and ideas that can lead to new venture creation.
MGMT 425 – New Venture Creation (3)
Via problem-based learning, students define new business ventures to meet current market needs, develop business models, and present to various stakeholders. The goal of New Venture Creation is to better prepare undergraduate students to be leaders in adaptive, globally-minded, technology-savvy organizations. The course is structured so students develop skills that are of high value in any workplace: leadership skills, self-efficacy, creativity and the ability to deal with ambiguity. Upon course completion, students will have a working knowledge of traditional and non-traditional ways for identifying a new product or business opportunity, quantifying the potential, understanding the key competitive factors, researching the audience, and producing a convincing plan for financing and launch. Students who want to augment the skills and knowledge from their major with the ability to develop a new product/service/process, will find New Venture Creation a valuable course. This is a novel problem-based learning (PBL) course, where the learning is student-centered, with faculty acting primarily in the role of facilitators. Active/Experiential learning happens in this course because students develop ownership of their venture concepts and are fully responsible for the genesis of ideas.
MGMT 215 – Entr Mindset (3)
This course provides the opportunity to learn to think like an entrepreneur in the broader context of social entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, creative problem solving, opportunity recognition, and innovation. MGMT 215 Entrepreneurial Mindset (3) An entrepreneurial mindset can be applied to different situations such as social entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, creative problem solving, opportunity recognition, technology management, innovation and career development, etc. The skills and attributes of an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to expand career options and career paths for students in any major. Students will develop self-efficacy, leadership, recognition of new opportunities, resourcefulness, creativity and comfort with ambiguity. Further, this course will help students develop an appreciation for mistakes and failure as valuable learning opportunities. Through experiential exercises and problem based learning the student will be afforded the opportunity to study, apply and absorb an entrepreneurial mindset as an approach to viewing the world, to recognizing opportunities and to developing novel solutions. After taking this course the student, regardless of a student's major or college, will have a greater understanding of how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to problems and adopt entrepreneurial solutions to those problems to transform them from problems into opportunities.
MBADM 531 – CORP INNOV & ENTR (3)
This course focuses on understanding, exploring, and applying innovation-related concepts, principles, and practices to corporate environments involved with product development, new venture creation, and other contexts, such as startup companies. Innovation and creativity are examined from multiple perspectives and levels of analysis, including individual, team, organization, industry, business process, culture, and technology, to name a few. In addition, this course seeks to demonstrate how innovation, and its associated best practices, can be integrated and applied to improve organizational performance. This course is intended to provide a broad overview of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship that students can build upon in a work or educational setting. Students will learn the basics of how to assess innovation competency maturity, perform innovation processes and activities in an organization, and identify opportunities and ideas that can lead to new venture creation.