MGMT 161Business Plan Development
Management · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Fundamentals of developing effective business plans, both in presentation and written form. Basic principles of designing and articulating plans for sales, marketing, product or service, operations, financials, management, and staffing functions of new startup businesses. How to develop well-written investment-quality business plans and business plan presentations, understand various analytical processes required to produce such plans, improve student writing and oral presentation skills, and formally present their business plans to audience of angel and venture capital investors.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 160.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MGMT 161
- MGMT 160Entrepreneurship and Venture Initiation
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.