Entrepreneurship In Organizations MBA Track

The Entrepreneurship in Organizations Track provides exceptional depth in planning, funding and sustaining a successful new business. The Track focuses on three key areas for start-up survival: marketing, organization and funding. Students take required and advanced electives in each of these areas to acquire the planning skills to develop and execute a start-up plan. Students in the Track become Entrepreneurial Fellows and can participate in an executive guest speaker, summer internship, and final Track project program. Final projects can result from collaboration across the campus also. The resulting plan will be a new opportunity to secure required funding for a start-up, early stage or ongoing business.

Required Courses

• Funding Early Stage Ventures
• Renewable Advantage: New Models and Strategies
• Entrepreneurship Through Business Acquisition
• Entrepreneurial Thought and Action
• Technology Commercialization and Business Development Strategy
• Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Seminar Series and Workshop
• Capstone Project Course

Electives can be selected from marketing, finance planning and organizational structure and growth which represent the areas critical to successful market entry and growth.

The curriculum for this Track also provides an excellent basis for a career in consulting, finance, technology or venture capital due to student involvement with corporations, mid-size companies and start-ups. The entrepreneurship field is not limited to those seeking to launch their own company. In fact, many graduates become “intrapreneurs,” serving as business development executives and strategic leaders within established companies.

Students closely collaborate with faculty, researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon’s top-ranked programs including engineering, product development, computer science and robotics for the capstone course. During the second year of the program, numerous electives, events, case competitions and conferences are conducted to increase student exposure to possible business ideas and campus partnerships.