Drawing upon entrepreneurial skills, innovation, and job creation, small firms have normally weathered the uncertainty of recessions and recoveries. Furthermore, small businesses reflect some of the long-term structural changes altering the composition of the work force. U.S. workers are moving out of traditional manufacturing jobs into the expanding services industries. As a result, small firms are creating thousands of new jobs. Many of these new firms are owned and operated by women and minorities.
Women entrepreneurs are the fastest growing segment of the national small business population.
The College of Business recognizes the importance of small businesses and wishes to prepare a segment of its undergraduate population for entrepreneurship and small business management.