Graduate Courses

The MBA degree program at Loyola University's College of Business offers an entrepreneurship specialization to help students be innovators in every professional environment including their own company, large corporations, or small businesses looking for growth. In addition to the courses listed below, check out opportunities like the IDEAcorps MBA Consulting Challenge and Idea Village IDEAfellows.

Questions? Reach out at innovate@loyno.edu.

MBA Entrepreneurship Specialization Courses

Innovation and Entrepreneurship - ENTR B820 - 3 credit hours

This MBA elective course exposes students to the new venture development process using methods used in the world’s top start-up incubator programs. Students will receive expert coaching as they generate a novel business model, validate that model in their target market through real customer contact, and create a go-to-market plan and fundraising strategy that makes their business a reality. In doing so, students will learn skills that will serve them when they launch their own startup or drive corporate innovation initiatives.

Entrepreneurial Stragey - ENTR B825 - 3 credit hours

This MBA elective class uses the both traditional and “live” case method to explore various topics related to starting, growing, and “exiting” scalable, high growth, businesses. It immerses students into the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, exposing them to the everyday challenges and strategic decisions that must be made by the entrepreneur. The class also helps students understand the transition from a “start-up,” an entity searching for a business model, to a scalable growth-oriented business.

New Venture Consulting - ENTR B830 - 3 credit hours

This MBA elective course teaches students how to help advance startups through various stages of development, allowing them to experience what it is like to both be an integral part of a founding team and guide founder decision making in an early-stage company. Students will be part of teams during two consulting engagements: one as the Loyola IDEAcorps team “moving the needle” for a local entrepreneur in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week and another as an autonomous consulting team working hand-in-hand with a growing start-up.

Lean Launchpad - FedTech - ENTR B831 - 3 credit hours

This MBA elective course provides real world, hands-on learning on what it’s like to commercialize a new technology. Students will take a novel technology sourced from partner institutions and work to translate the core technology into a viable business through an in-depth customer discovery process. In this “flipped classroom”, students will work closely with inventors, engineers and an extensive network of coaches and mentors to understand a specific technology in the context of a market, and understand what it takes to connect entrepreneurship, engineering, and innovative science.