Stanford Entrepreneurship Summer Program for Graduate Students

The Stanford Graduate School of Business Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship (SIE) (http://gsb.stanford.edu/sie) is reaching out to graduate student populations with backgrounds in engineering, medicine, science, and humanities to inform them of the opportunity to spend a month at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business learning management skills critical to entrepreneurship and building a successful venture.

The Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship is a rigorous 4-week program that provides Masters, PhDs, and postdocs from top universities worldwide the unique opportunity to build the analytical and practical skills critical to business management and entrepreneurship . The program is taught by Stanford Business School (GSB) faculty and utilizes a combination of lectures, team projects, small group discussions, guest speakers, and workshops to give participants a comprehensive understanding of the process of starting a new business venture. Venture capitalists, presentation consultants, and local entrepreneurs mentor participants throughout the program on how to formulate and effectively present a winning business plan. The program concludes with presentations of team-developed business plans to a panel of experienced venture capitalists from prominent Silicon Valley firms.

The application deadline for this program is March 15, 2012. For more information, visit the SIE website (http://gsb.stanford.edu/sie) or contact Arden Grady, Program Coordinator of SIE, at grady_arden@gsb.stanford.edu.