The McGuire Entrepreneurship Program is unique — academic, practical, intense, and stimulating. The program — which is also open to master's and doctoral students in finance, marketing, economics, management information services, accounting, and management — 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 graduate students 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.
Associates in Entrepreneurship
Emphasis in Traditional Entrepreneurship
The Idea Path: Your Key to Success
The entrepreneurship program consists of courses and modules 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.
McGuire Entrepreneurship curriculum is built around the program goal of preparing students with knowledge, tools, and experience to successfully apply entrepreneurial principles in a range of environments. The key method is the IdeaPath™. The vehicle is a problem based, innovative, scalable venture concept that is moved through natural phases of entrepreneurial development including early idea formation and assessment and onto validation, strategy development, business plan authorship, and of course, funding and application. Particular emphasis is placed on gaining intimate fluency of the venture’s solution, customer, environment, social and economic impact, and potential to add value to a range of populations and needs.
As a result, the education experience holds value for any student wanting to contribute more significantly in any professional or personal environment, to meaningfully impact problems and solutions, to move ideas about which they are passionate to reality. And of course, to launch new companies, create wealth, and strengthen economies and communities.
Associates in Entrepreneurship
Emphasis in Corporate Entrepreneurship
Leveraging the program foundation established in the award-winning McGuire Center, the newly established Corporate Entrepreneurship Track will focus on the application of entrepreneurial principles within or engaging corporate entities. 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.
