The course is offered once every two years and provides a forum for teaching tomorrow's entrepreneurship professors the historical and current state of the entrepreneurship literature. For Entrepreneurial Studies was among the first universities nationally to offer a Concentration in Entrepreneurship at the MBA level. The program includes courses and modules in venture creation, new venture finance, international entrepreneurship, and others. The MBA entrepreneurship concentration is interdepartmental, drawing from expertise in marketing, management, finance, accounting, and economics to provide a solid conceptual background and applied, analytical base for starting a business. The coursework is oriented toward identifying business opportunities, evaluating potential markets, and planning for financial and organizational needs at different stages of growth.
Courses encompass business plan development and offer distinguished entrepreneurs as guest speakers.
The program received a national Leavey Award from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for excellence and innovation in education and a National Model Program Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. New Venture Formation 2. Finance 544 - Entrepreneurial New Venture Financing 3. Marketing 574 - Product Planning 2. Economics 504 - The Exonomics of Organization of Business Enterprises 4.