Published: September 1, 2014
Trivia Tuesday: Entrepreneurship Offerings at Tepper
Hello again and welcome to this week’s Trivia Tuesday, in which we spotlight program elements that differentiate the leading business schools from their peers. Today we’re taking a look into the Clear Admit School Guide to the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University to share with you an excerpt about the MBA program’s opportunities for budding entrepreneurs.
“Tepper’s aspiring entrepreneurs are invited to take advantage of the academic and extracurricular offerings of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurship in Organizations MBA Track, the James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Leadership speaker series and the McGinnis Venture Competition are all products of this lively branch of the Tepper community. When the center was founded in 1972, it was one of the first institutions in the world to teach entrepreneurship in an academic setting. Since that time, it has dedicated itself to helping students learn the skills necessary to turn their business ideas into realities through courses on strategy, venture development and funding. Recently, the Jones Center has focused increasingly on the function of technology and the growing prevalence of new ventures in the life science industry.
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