Concept check
Answer shuffled questions across all 13 sessions. Get immediate explanations and a topic breakdown.
FME 1000 midterm lab
Practice how the test asks you to think.
Learn the concepts, apply them to a case, and turn your reasoning into a clear C-E-A-R answer. Everything runs locally and saves only in this browser.
Written case coach
Write one C-E-A-R response, compare it with a model answer, and score the four parts yourself.
90-minute mock
Complete two entrepreneurship and two OB cases with a live timer and delayed model answers.
Course map
Topics → components to know
Open a branch, then a session. For every component, be able to define it, find evidence of it in a case, and recommend a specific response.
FME 1000 midterm · 13 sessions
Joint foundation · 2
S1 · Entrepreneurial Thought and Action
- Prediction logic for a knowable future
- Creation logic under uncertainty
- Means at hand and affordable loss
- Act → learn → adjust
S9 · Rocket Pitch
- Customer → problem → solution
- Benefit, difference, and reason to believe
- Concise delivery and clear team handoffs
- Apply feedback to the argument
Entrepreneurship · 6
S3 · Problem Solving and Idea Generation
- Idea versus opportunity
- Customer problem and current workaround
- “How might we?” framing
- Diverge before converging
- Brainstorming rules and human judgment of AI output
S5 · Empathy and Design Thinking
- Empathy and observation
- Neutral discovery interviews about past behavior
- Needs, frustrations, actions, and workarounds
- Empathize → define → ideate → prototype → test
S7 · Value Proposition and Target Market
- Customer, consumer, payer, and decision-maker
- Segments, first target market, and evidence-based persona
- Resonate, differentiate, and substantiate
- Create, deliver, and capture value
S8 · Prototyping
- Riskiest assumption
- Smallest credible learning test
- Observable customer behavior
- Feedback, iteration, and MVP
S11 · Opportunity Evaluation
- Desirability: do customers care and act?
- Feasibility: can the team deliver?
- Viability: can the model sustain itself?
- Alternatives, resources, risks, and impact
S12 · Market Research
- Primary versus secondary research
- Qualitative versus quantitative evidence
- Methods, sampling, and unbiased questions
- Patterns, interpretation, and disconfirming evidence
- Product, price, place, promotion, and revenue
Organizational Behavior · 5
S2 · Culture and Norms
- Shared values, assumptions, and behavior
- Formal rules versus informal norms
- Visible artifacts versus invisible beliefs
- Team charters and consistent reinforcement
S4 · Emotional Intelligence
- Self-awareness and self-management
- Social awareness and relationship management
- Triggers: respond instead of react
- Trust: authenticity + logic + empathy
S6 · Positive Teaming and Psychological Safety
- Performance, learning, and well-being
- Safety for questions, dissent, and mistakes
- Constructive conflict and productive failure
- Process gains and losses
- Team design, launch, and process management
S10 · Diversity of Thought and DiSC
- D: results and speed
- I: energy and persuasion
- S: patience and support
- C: evidence and quality
- Flex communication; do not stereotype
S13 · Inclusion and Identity
- Personal and social identity
- Visible and invisible differences
- Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Bias, assumptions, and faultlines
- Inclusive airtime, roles, and decisions
Course-wide chain: Understand people → define a meaningful problem → generate options → choose a target and value proposition → prototype the riskiest assumption → collect evidence → evaluate the opportunity → pitch it clearly → build a team where different people can contribute and learn.
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Questions to revisit
Written case coach
Case 1
C-E-A-R: Name the Concept, cite case Evidence, explain your Analysis, then give a concrete Response and result.
Check the structure
How many C-E-A-R parts did you include?
Exam simulation
Four short essays
Time left90:00
Build the answer from the facts.
You have 90 minutes. Use C-E-A-R, answer every part of each prompt, and spend more space applying concepts than defining them. Model answers stay hidden until you submit.
Review your reasoning
Compare the logic and evidence, not the exact wording.