Entrepreneurship

Starting in 1972, Carnegie Mellon became one of the first academic institutions to offer formal courses in entrepreneurship. These programs were consolidated in 1990 when Donald H. Jones, a well-known entrepreneur and venture capitalist, endowed the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship. From the beginning, the Center has operated with these guiding principles:

• Entrepreneurship can be taught.
• It is vitally important to teach entrepreneurship.
• The best entrepreneurship teachers are proven entrepreneurs and venture investors.
• The combination of academic rigor and real-world entrepreneurial experience produces excellence in the teaching of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial skills and thinking are actively sought by competitive organizations and by individuals who seek the challenge of creating and growing enterprises. Undergraduates in our Entrepreneurship Track access a curriculum that emphasizes creating real business plans, working on other field projects, and gaining access and insight from leaders in the entrepreneurial business community providing them the opportunity to test the theories, models, and strategies learned in the classroom.

Required

• 70-415 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
  • or 70-414 Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Engineers
  • or 70-420 Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Scientists
  • or 70-421 Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Computer Scientists
• 70-416 New Venture Creation
• 70-418 Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
• 70-481 Marketing Research

Choose two courses from the following list:

• 70-417 Topics in Entrepreneurship
• 70-321 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• 70-342 Managing Across Cultures
• 70-397 Entrepreneurial Finance
• 70-430 International Management
• 70-459 Web Businesses Engineering
• 70-495 Corporate Finance
• 80-242 Conflict and Dispute Resolution

Track Advisor

Art Boni
John R. Thorne Chair of Entrepreneurship; Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship; and Director, Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
231A Tepper
boni@andrew.cmu.edu