The Graduate School of Business offers a concentration in entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurship courses are among the most popular in the school. In the 1998-99 academic year, there will be more than 1,000 student enrollments in entrepreneurship courses. Seven primary courses in the field expose students to the breadth of issues they will face in analyzing business strategy, managing the business, obtaining financing, and structuring the business from a legal and tax perspective. Students take three courses from those listed below.
Related courses provide opportunities to study various aspects of entrepreneurship in more detail.
Available in the next year will be a new course, the New Venture Laboratory Course . One of the winning teams from 1997, Epotec, raised substantial funding in the summer of 1997 and is currently developing software for the behavioral health market. The 1998 Challenge will generate three to five start-ups.