Tepper School of Business
Entrepreneurship In Organizations MBA Track
Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic growth, and you want to drive change through growth and prosperity in a rapidly changing, global context. Through the Entrepreneurship in Organizations Track our goal is to provide you with the tools, experiences, and support necessary facilitate your development as a leader and innovator in your field. Students in the Track become James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows and can participate in a number of non-academic programs unique only to the Entrepreneurship in Organizations Track. Fellows gather regularly with faculty and staff to share ideas and experiences; the Swartz Entrepreneurial Leadership Series brings seasoned entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators to Tepper to speak with students; the Swartz Mentorship program pairs you with a compatible mentor who is well positioned to help you navigate your unique path towards success.
WHO SHOULD APPLY
Graduates of this track pursue a variety of career paths including: start-up and emerging companies, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurship through small business acquisition, venture capital/private equity, consulting, and social entrepreneurship. In sync with Carnegie Mellon’s interdisciplinary strengths, students collaborate closely with faculty, researchers and other students at our top-ranked programs including engineering, product development, computer science, robotics, and design.
Independent of which career path you take, fostering innovation and entrepreneurial growth will require a set of fundamental skillsapplicable to innovation in all stages of a company’s life cycle. Our plan is to help you build a strong foundation in opportunity evaluation, market research, team development, financing new businesses, valuation, due-diligence, and other areas critical to sound business planning.
REQUIRED COURSES
The Track includes six required core courses:
- Funding Early Stage Ventures
- Corporate Strategy and Renewable Advantage
- Entrepreneurial Business Planning
- Entrepreneurial Thought and Action
- Technology Commercialization & Business Development Strategy and Workshop
- Entrepreneurial Leadership: Capstone Project Course
The capstone project provides students the opportunity to work in teams on an actual business situation. In this course students are expected to hone their leadership skills and implement the knowledge and tools taught in the core curriculum.
Electives can be selected from marketing, organizational behavior, finance planning, advanced communications, and other area critical to market entry and high-growth endeavors. Funding Early Stage Ventures
FACULTY COORDINATOR
Dr. Arthur A. Boni
John R. Thorne Chair of Entrepreneurship
Director, Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
W: (412) 268-8685
E: boni@andrew.cmu.edu.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESOURCES
Did you know?
The James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows program is the result of a generous gift from renowned venture capitalist and Tepper School of Business graduate James R. Swartz. Swartz co-founded Accel Partners, a global venture capital firm that counts several of the most significant revolutions in technology businesses among its investments, including Veritas Software, RealNetworks and Macromedia.
Tepper’s Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship has been recognized by NASDAQ as one of the top seven entrepreneurship centers in the U.S.
In 2008 Carnegie Mellon extended its track record as the “Winningest” School at Moot Corp®, the “Super Bowl” of business plan competitions, by landing the top prize three of the last five years and also a second place finish during that period.
