Entrepreneurial MBA
Through a unique collaboration with William Jewell College and Oneday, you can launch your business and earn an MBA! You will partner 1-1 with a renowned entrepreneur and work hand-in-hand with them to build your business.
One can’t become an entrepreneur just by reading books. Entrepreneurship involves understanding market demands, developing a viable business model, securing funding, building a team and much more. Understanding that textual knowledge and theories are insufficient to equip aspiring entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial world, Jewell pushes a different approach. This program allows students to earn an MBA degree by building their businesses and completing the curriculum.
With a growing alumni and mentor network, the MBA program for entrepreneurs has built a portfolio of student stories—mere ideas turned into thriving companies, and fears and uncertainties transmuted into empowered and confident entrepreneurs and leaders today.
You will complete assignments in each course that help you launch your business. As you work through the curriculum, you will work on a number of experiments across a variety of disciplines (product, marketing and finance).
“My background is not tech, and my product is a tech product, so I needed help. Mentor Steph Hamill was brilliant. The process is very strong, particularly the practical tools. Those were the bits I really needed. I’ve raised $2.5 million in funding and made it to App of the Day in the app store.”
Neil Smith, co-founder of Mettle
We believe that learning should start from the interests and passions of the individual. Jewell’s program begins with an assessment of each founder’s skills, passions and uniqueness.
From this, we build on experience around the individual: assigning precisely the right mentor, handpicking a cohort of same-stage peers and providing intensive 1:1 and small group work every week.
We believe that learning happens best when the information is required to perform a task. Jewell’s assignments and assessments are deeply practical in nature, never tokenistic. They form part of a meticulously structured methodology designed to enhance each founder’s chances of success. We will never ask founders to learn for learning’s sake.
We believe that the progress of each individual’s business is more important than strict academic success. The entire program is geared toward identifying the earliest signs of traction, growth and product/market fit. Your achievement as a founder is our obsession.
Partner with the world’s best founders and learn to launch lean and fast
Test demand for your idea by starting with a range of different prototypes. No need to invest large amounts of money with designers, developers or manufacturers.
Using feedback and data on your idea from customers, iterate on the proposition rapidly in two-week sprints to land on a version that customers are ecstatic about.
As you get more and more validation from customers, increase the fidelity and quality of your prototypes, keeping risk of default to a minimum.
To be announced.
Kelli Schutte, Ph.D.
Vice President for Graduate, Professional and Innovative Programs
Christopher McCullick, D.B.A.
Professor of Accounting; Division Head, Business, Communication, and Education
Michael Lockert, B.S.
Executive in Residence – Business
Mark Satterfield, M.B.A.
Accountant in Residence
Yuriy Bots, Ph.D.
John W. Boatwright Professor of Economics; Professor of Economics
