Dual Degree Entrepreneurship Education
If you are interested in adding an entrepreneurial dimension to your dual-degree MBA, you can participate in a total of 12 credits of entrepreneurship certification under the academic leadership of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship — six units over the summer, and the remaining six through completion of the McGuire Center spanning the spring semester of year one through the end of year two.
Throughout the program, you’ll develop an organized, productive approach to take any idea into reality. The program focus is broken into five key phases:
- Innovation
- Validation
- Exectuables
- Business Plan
- Launch
Along with your team, you will own copyright of the new venture plan you develop over the course of the year.
Dual-Degree MBA Entrepreneurship Certification Schedule
Year 1
Spring
- Attend graduate entrepreneurship orientation series
- Begin innovation phase of entrepreneurship curriculum — team formation and idea development
Summer
- Spend approximately 150 hours in an entrepreneurial, new, or nascent firm developing an entrepreneurial profile of the organization
- Internship tied to science/technology discipline or related thesis work
- Complete and present discipline-specific feasibility study
- May be tied to thesis or non-thesis project, determined by individual assessment
- May be done individually or by a group
- Continue innovation phase and initial validation phase of the program
- Comprehensive feasibility research on venture idea
- Assignment of new venture position (GM, VP finance; VP operations, VP base technology, etc.)
Year 2
Fall
- Finalize feasibility research on venture idea
- Continue validation and begin executables phases of curriculum (marketing, legal, finance, management, operations, etc.)
- Communicate new venture opportunity through business plan
Spring
- Refine new venture opportunity and communication
- Simulate venture launch
- Focus on venture communications
- Participate in intercollegiate competitions
- Meet with members of the investment community
For more information, please contact us or request more information through our online inquiry system.
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