Nastaran Simarasl

Capstone Strategic Management

• Topics: Strategic management process, external analysis, internal (resource) analysis, competitor analysis, goal setting, mission/vision setting, strategy formulation, execution, and assessment, performance, profitability, growth. 

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

• Topics: Ideation, creativity, customer discovery, business models, intellectual property, legal structures.

Social Entrepreneurship

• Topics: Social ventures, non-profits, stakeholder management, co-creation with the community, social impact, impact measurement, legal structures, scaling social impact.

Business Consulting

• Topics: Business consultation basics, client relationship management, survey design, data collection, data analysis, developing recommendations, consulting report development, professional presentation of findings to the client. ​

• Approach: Service learning
• Recent clients: Pomona Chamber of Commerce (read this story), Healed Women Heal
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Business Analytics Innovation and Idea Development (graduate-level)

• Topics: Teamwork in business analytics projects, defining problem statement, analytic objectives, literature review, research methods, findings and recommendations.
• Approach: Project-based (master's thesis)