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Entrepreneurship concentration
In the Poets&Quants Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship ranking, ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business was named No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 2 in the world, ahead of Michigan, Duke, and UCLA. Entrepreneurship has been, and will continue to be, one of the key engines of global economic growth. Because entrepreneurship is not a one-size-fits-all proposition that happens along a pre-determined timeline, the entrepreneurship concentration focuses on developing your mindset and your toolkit, whether you will launch your own startup, join others in their new venture, work intrapreneurially within a larger organization, or even a combination of these over time.
Our core course in entrepreneurship, combined with five required specialization courses and related electives, will develop your skills in the following areas: idea generation, opportunity assessment, concept development, resource determination and acquisition, funding opportunities, managing growth, and harvesting the business. This concentration will put you in the shoes of an entrepreneur, deepening your critical thinking and experiential learning while you learn to make decisions in real time with limited information.
Required courses
You will complete one course in entrepreneurship as a part of your core MBA curriculum. To fulfill the requirements of the concentration, you must complete a minimum of fifteen additional credit hours of coursework.
Entrepreneurship concentration required courses
MGT 540: Going Out on Your Own: Entrepreneurship
Capstone case-based course covering all aspects of starting a business: opportunity identification, evaluation, concept development, identifying required resources, acquiring those resources, launching the entity, managing growth, and ultimately, harvesting the enterprise. Revolves around a series of cases, readings, and class discussions designed to build a comfort level with understanding and solving problems faced every day, in real life, by a broad spectrum of entrepreneurs at various phases of venture development. Significant emphasis on understanding the valuation and financing of entrepreneurial ventures is interwoven through discussions.
MGT 530: Influence and Negotiations
Builds the knowledge and skills necessary to excel at the art of negotiation by gaining experience in bargaining and negotiation. Through experiential learning — exercises, negotiation simulations, and negotiation-based cases — you will establish a fundamental understanding of what it takes to be an effective negotiator.
FIN 555: Entrepreneurial Finance
Provides an overview of the economics and institutions involved in entrepreneurial finance, particularly the financing of new ventures. The class will consist primarily of case analysis, supplemented with lecture material and in-class discussions.
MGT 594: New Venture Challenge
Open to all ASU graduate students and offered through a partnership between the W. P. Carey School of Business and Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, New Venture Challenge creates an accelerator-like environment in which you pitch ideas, receive tailored coaching and guidance, act to take your businesses to the next level, and compete for part of $100,000 in funding and services in the post-course New Venture Challenge competition. This course is by application only. See deadlines and learn more at entrepreneurship.wpcarey.asu.edu/content/venture.
Electives
FIN 591: Venture Capital Investing
A small class emphasizing discussion, presentations by students, and written research papers.
MGT 594: Venture Capital Experience
Explores the details of the startup funding process. Discover the history of venture capital and other types of capital, current trends, and the trends that are anticipated in the future. You will learn the due diligence process as performed by investors and be able to apply these concepts to building and growing their own ventures.
WPC 598: Start-up Investing
Topical courses not offered in regular course rotation–e.g., new courses not in the catalog, courses by visiting faculty, courses on timely topics, highly specialized courses responding to unique student demand.