Tag: mba
5 Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurial MBAs
For entrepreneurs, business school presents a unique set of choices and opportunities that can drastically alter a founder’s chance of success — for better or worse. I founded Troop ID while I was an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School in February of 2010. And while today we employ 17 people and sign up nearly 1,000 new [...]
The University Entrepreneurship Report
Do certain university’s graduate more entrepreneurs than others? Read the University Entrepreneurship Report to find out: Brought to you by: AccountingDegree.com
Can Entrepreneurship be Taught in Graduate Schools?
If you’re reading this, chances are that you want to be the next Mark Zuckerburg, Andrew Mason or Jack Dorsey. You’re not alone. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, over 550,000 new small businesses are created every year in America. Business schools (including Richard Ivey School of Business that I attend) are trying to capitalize [...]
Should Young Entrepreneurs Ditch College?
It’s an argument that may never be settled: are young entrepreneurs better off going to college or not going to college? The founders of Google met in the Ph.D. program at Stanford, whilst Steve Jobs famously dropped out of college. So which path is best? At different times I’ve been extremely anti-college, extremely pro-college, and [...]
Getting Your MBA? 10 Courses You Must Take to be an Entrepreneur!
Now we all know that nothing replaces real world experience. No course will truly show you what it takes or teach you every lesson you are going to encounter when starting a business. However if you are in school and getting an MBA the best thing you can do is take courses that will help [...]
