For the past five years, it has been taught by Wendell, who combines his lectures and cases with guest lectures, bringing in as many as 15 outside speakers throughout the quarter. Wendell divides the class into teams, each of which prepares business plans with the help and guidance of local venture capitalists who volunteer their time. The course provides unusual access to some of the area's more prominent venture capitalists. And it pays off for second-year students like Steve Jurvetson, who recently landed a job with Draper Fisher Associates. The industry is so dynamic, and I saw a lot of that in class.
Students already have more courses to choose from.
Lecturer Irv Grousbeck continues to teach about the ins and outs of new ventures, as he has for the past decade. Other courses reflect the mix of experience and research that the GSB seeks with the new program. Last fall, Intel's Andy Grove taught Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry with professor Robert Burgelman. This spring, lecturer Dennis Rohan will team with Charles Holloway, the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers Professor of Management, to offer High-Tech Entrepreneurship. Venture capitalists are the first to admit that putting an academic lens to entrepreneurship and venture capital won't be easy.