Strong emphasis is placed on economics and promotion. Elements include competition, market, pricing, promotion, and sinance. A Venture Advisory Board provides feedback, advice, technical assistance, and marketing suggestions to the students. Financing of businesses is available via our private foundation. Small Business Management Classroom theory is combined with actual store operations.
Students operate a wholesale sportswear operation servicing school sports teams and organizations.
Emphasis on merchandising, production and recordkeeping. Business Law Students learn the basic legal principles relevant to each individual in his or her triple role of citizen, consumer, and employee. Content includes the origin of law, the court systems, criminal and civil law, rights and duties, basic elements of contracts, consumer protection, insurance, bailments, negotiable instruments, employer-emloyee relations, and legal affairs affecting property. Modern Marketing is conceived as a process that begins with industry identification of customer needs and desires and continues with the design of products and services that will satisfy potential consumer demands. Areas studied include marketing functions, job interview techniques, advertising, proper attitudes for the world of work, and economics.