Coles College of Business - Business Centers and Institutes

Business Centers and Institutes

  • Center for Professional Selling: Kennesaw State University is one of only a few universities in the United States to offer a four-year degree in professional selling, which incorporates the skills and ethics of sales. KSU also houses one of only a handful of Professional Selling Centers in the nation. The Sales program at Kennesaw State University allows students to develop an effective combination of strategic and tactical communication, relationship building and sales skills through real life and experiential exercises. Class work is supplemented with opportunities to practice sales skills through digitally recorded role-playing and presentations, which are critiqued by faculty and peers, allowing students to perfect their sales techniques. Students also have the opportunity to shadow sales professionals in several different industries and to participate in live sales calls.
  • Center for International Business
  • Cox Family Enterprise Center: Since 1987, the Cox Family Enterprise Center (CFEC) has been dedicated to the research, education, and recognition of family businesses. As one of the first university-based centers of its kind, the CFEC remains on the cutting edge of family business education and research and has played a critical role in serving family businesses and furthering economic development. The premier program is the Executive MBA for Families in Business, the only one of its kind, offered to business-owning families around the globe.
  • Small Business Development Center: The SBDC assists entrepreneurs grow their business by providing no-cost, confidential one-to-one consulting and offering a wide variety of low-cost educational programs. The Georgia SBDC Network has helped small business owners create almost 7 times more jobs than the average Georgia business, with a 29.6 percent increase in sales growth.
  • The Edge Connection (Formerly: Cobb Microenterprise Center):The Edge Connection offers proven programs 
to aid micro-entrepreneurs and small business owners in their efforts to launch, sustain, 
and expand businesses. They provide exploring, aspiring, and existing entrepreneurs with business and marketing plan training, one-on-one technical assistance, strategic coaching and access to capital through our resource partners.
  • Econometric Center
  • Corporate Governance Center
  • Center for Business Innovation and Creativity
  • Internal Audit Center
  • The Center for Accountable Leaders

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