Welcome from Jones Center Director

I want to welcome you to the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business. My name is Dr. Arthur Boni, and I am the director of the Jones Center and the John R. Thorne Professor of Entrepreneurship.

The Jones Center is kicking off the 2008-2009 academic year with a full load of undergraduate and graduate courses, and many of our courses have waiting lists or are filled to capacity. We are excited that our entrepreneurship courses continue to grow in popularity within the Carnegie Mellon community. We are also preparing for another year of our non-credit Entrepreneurial Leadership Forum and Entrepreneurship Through Business Acquisition executive entrepreneurship programs (please visit our Entrepreneurial Education Program page for more details). Finally, soon we will head to Qatar to begin another year of our Qatar Executive Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. The Jones Center continues to grow and buzz with activity!

Since we became in 1972 one of the first academic institutions to offer formal courses in entrepreneurship, the Jones Center has operated with these guiding principles:

• Entrepreneurship can be taught.
• It is vitally important to teach entrepreneurship.
• The best entrepreneurship teachers are proven entrepreneurs and venture investors.
• The combination of academic rigor and real-world entrepreneurial experience produces excellence in the teaching of entrepreneurship.

Please visit our site to learn more about our programs, our faculty, academic endeavors and entrepreneurial education programs. If you have any questions, I would be happy to hear from you.

Arthur A. Boni, Ph.D.
Director - Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
John R. Thorne Professor of Entrepreneurship