COMM 486J - Disruption
CDL overview
CDL-Vancouver is an expansion from the original Creative Destruction Lab at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, a program that has created more than $5.0 Billion in equity value in eight years targeting companies that have the potential to transform our social, industrial, and economic landscape. The CDL is one of the world’s premier seed stage programs for massively scalable science-based ventures. Notable graduates include: Atomwise, Notch Therapeutics, Plantible Foods, Ionomr Innovations, Shift, Spiderwort and others.
Course overview
In September 2024, a brand new CDL course called Disruption (COMM 486J) will be rolled out to provide students an opportunity to work on a CDL venture’s strategy. Specifically, students will be provided with an awareness of how both start-ups and larger corporations can disrupt incumbents in a market by analyzing the human behaviours and biases that tolerate inaction, global trends and zeitgeist that impact organizations, strategic theories that provide access to disruptive innovation, and the transformational strategic models supporting entrepreneurs and business leaders to execute upon disruptive strategy. Students will apply their learning by contemplating new, disruptive opportunities for an existing venture participating in the Creative Destruction Lab Vancouver (CDL-V) program at UBC Sauder. Also, the work students do for ventures will be seen by the mentors/investors in the CDL program, and influence their investment decisions and the progress of the ventures. Some of the students across the CDL network have joined venture-backed CDL companies in key roles – this course is a unique opportunity for students who are interested in real world exposure to start-ups and seed funding. This course will be a prerequisite for COMM 489.
Information sessions
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) Course Info Session
Room HA347 at UBC Sauder
Monday, April 22, 2024
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Session recording: https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a452641b-dcec-40de-ad3d-b15a01812d47