The McGuire Entrepreneurship Program is unique — academic, practical, intense, and stimulating. The program nurtures the development of personal and professional attributes critical to success and to be effective in moving ideas to reality, whether in an existing firm or organization, or in a true new venture environment.
Optional tracks in traditional or corporate entrepreneurship provide Eller MBAs with the right academic experience to advance their long range goals. As in no other course of study, this program integrates learning and doing, competing, cooperating, and creating. Success will demand much more than doing the job well. The satisfaction of entrepreneurship comes from conceiving, articulating, advancing, and ultimately realizing ideas can be achieved in a McGuire Entrepreneurship Track.
Concentration in Entrepreneurship
The Idea Path: Your Key to Success
The entrepreneurship program is comprised of 9 credits, with courses in new venture finance, competitive advantage and industry analysis, and venture develop 1 and II (view electives and other recommended entrepreneurship courses). The venture development courses are the capstone of the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program.
As the core of the program-wide study, it is within these courses that you the idea path is pursued — moving from concept to the successful development of a comprehensive, professionally presented, investment-quality new venture plan. Through this path, students participate in a variety of learning activities and complete specific assignments. Students are assessed at various phases throughout the year not only on the progress of their venture, but also on the success of the team and on the development of the personal entrepreneurial skill set.
The venture plan is the key deliverable in that it is the vehicle through which students will navigate the idea path process. The final grade will depend heavily not only on the format, articulation and presentation of the plan, but on the student’s ability to master each phase of the idea path for your project.
It is the responsibility of the venture team to:
Identify gaps
Conduct research
Contact and talk with possible customers, partners and advisors
Resolve issues
Execute strategies where appropriate
Bring together and use all relevant information and resources
Ultimately create the best plan possible
This is a professional reflection of the work the team has accomplished, and therefore professional material are the standard at all times.
Concentration in Corporate Entrepreneurship
Leveraging the program foundation established in the award-winning McGuire Center, the newly established Corporate Entrepreneurship Track focuses on the application of entrepreneurial principles within a range of environments. Today’s knowledge economy is competitive and fast moving. The ability to quickly move new ideas and customer solutions to the market is essential to business.
Study focuses ranging from live cases within national and multi national firms, to traditional case based, textbook, and project based learning will position MBAs to be leaders in industry.
