BEPP2990 - Independent Study
MGMT1980 - Special Topics in MGMT
Courses offered of various topics and points of focus, ranging across multiple concentrations of Management, (i.e., Entrepreneurial, Strategy, Organizational Effectiveness, etc.).
MGMT2120 - Social Entrepreneurship
This is a course on creating a business to attack a social problem and thereby accomplish both social impact and financial sustainability. For this course, social entrepreneurship is defined as entrepreneurship used to profitably confront social problems. This definition therefore views social entrepreneurship as a distinct alternative to public sector initiatives. The basic thesis is that many social problems, if looked at through an entrepreneurial lens, create opportunity for someone to launch a venture that generates profits by alleviating that social problem. This sets in motion a virtuous cycle - the entrepreneur is incented to generate more profits and in so doing, the more the profits made, the more the problem is alleviated. Even if it is not possible to eventually create a profit-making enterprise, the process of striving to do so can lead to a resource-lean not-for-profit entity. Creating a profitable social entrepreneurship venture is by no means a simple challenge.
MGMT2300 - Entrepreneurship
How do you take a good idea and turn it into a successful venture? Whether you plan to become a founder, investor, mentor, partner, or early employee of a startup company, this course will take you through the entire journey of new venture creation and development. MGMT 230 is a project-based survey course designed to provide an overview of the entrepreneurial process and give you practical hands-on experience with new venture development. You and a team will have the chance to ideate, test, and develop a pitch for an early-stage startup by incorporating material from class lectures, simulations, labs, and class discussions. By the end of the course, you will have a better understanding of what it takes to create a successful startup, as well as proven techniques for identifying and testing new market opportunities, acquiring resources, bringing new products and services to market, scaling, and exiting new ventures.
MGMT2310 - Entrepreneurship Launchpad
This advanced course on entrepreneurship focuses on taking your venture from a good idea to a fundable business. Participants need to come to the class with a validated idea that they are committed to pursuing commercially. The course is entirely oriented toward applying concepts and frameworks to advance your venture and provides practical guidance for testing the product or service, forming the entity, establishing partnerships, and engaging with investors. Students must have successfully completed MGMT 2300 before enrolling (or obtain the permission of the instructor).
Format: Highly interactive Requirements: Class participation, interim assignments.
MGMT3880 - Impact Acceleration Lab
Entrepreneurial ventures have a unique role to play in addressing major challenges like climate change because their ability to attract capital and rapidly scale creates the potential for impact at a scale that cannot be easily matched by governments and non-profit sector organizations. This class offers students the chance to contribute directly to such efforts by working on focused projects with real early-stage startups. To this end, the class brings together three distinct communities: Startup founders; students, and; professional mentors (senior industry, investing, and content area specialists) to collaborate in ways that have the potential to advance real change.
NOTE: The lab in Fall 2026 will focus on ventures that are working in various industries, but with a shared focus on developing innovative approaches to address climate change and environmental sustainability. You do not need to have a background in climate or sustainability, just an interest in learning in these domains. Projects will be defined by the startup founder(s) in collaboration with the course instructor.
MGMT4010 - Growing Social Impact
This course seeks to address a gap at the core of contemporary entrepreneurship: despite a growing desire to pursue prosocial goals and affect positive change in the world, most founders have little understanding of how to measure, manage, and scale their impact. This creates the risk that financial goals will play an outsized role in decision-making, particularly as the venture scales, leading founders to drift away from social impact aims - or to pursue goals that fail to deliver on their intended impacts. MGMT 401 fulfils the Wharton capstone requirement with a hands-on approach to addressing these issues. Students will work hand-in-hand with the founding teams of pre-selected startups from the Wharton venture community to develop a strategy for measuring social impact, and ensuring fidelity to social goals as the venture goes to market and begins to scale. Projects will be group-based, and will ask students to integrate learnings on social enterprise, impact measurement, and impact investing, with prior coursework on entrepreneurship, social impact, business ethics, leadership, team dynamics, and venture finance. Students will leave the class with a deeper appreciation of the potential for business to be a force for good in the world, and the difficulties that this can pose during the founding and growth stages of a new business. The class will be of value to students who are interested in creating socially impactful businesses, as well as to those who want to work in the ecosystem that supports such ventures (e.g., consulting, or impact investing).
MGMT7990 - Special Topics MGMT
Courses offered of various topics and points of focus, ranging across multiple concentrations of Management, (i.e., Entrepreneurial, Strategy, Organizational Business, etc.).
MGMT8010 - Entrepreneurship
MGMT 801 is the foundation coures in the Entrepeurial Management program. The purpose of this course is to explore the many dimensions of new venture creation and growth. While most of the examples in class will be drawn from new venture formation, the principles also apply to entrepreneurship in corporate settings and to non-profit entrepreneurship. We will be concerned with content and process questions as well as with formulation and implementation issues that relate to conceptualizing, developing, and managing successful new ventures. The emphasis in this course is on applying and synthesizing concepts and techniques from functional areas of strategic management, finance, accounting, managerial economics, marketing, operations management, and organizational behavior in the context of new venture development. The class serves as both a stand alone class and as a preparatory course to those interested in writing and venture implementation (the subject of the semester-long course, MGMT 806). Format: Lectures and case discussions
MGMT8310 - Entrepreneurship Launchpad
This advanced course on entrepreneurship focuses on taking your venture from a good idea to a fundable business. Participants need to come to the class with a validated idea that they are committed to pursuing commercially. The course is entirely oriented toward applying concepts and frameworks to advance your venture and provides practical guidance for testing the product or service, forming the entity, establishing partnerships, and engaging with investors. Students must have successfully completed MGMT 801 before enrolling (or obtain the permission of the instructor).
Format: Highly interactive Requirements: Class participation, interim assignments.
MGMT8880 - Impact Acceleration Lab
Entrepreneurial ventures have a unique role to play in addressing major challenges like climate change because their ability to attract capital and rapidly scale creates the potential for impact at a scale that cannot be easily matched by governments and non-profit sector organizations. This class offers students the chance to contribute directly to such efforts by working on focused projects with real early-stage startups. To this end, the class brings together three distinct communities: Startup founders; students, and; professional mentors (senior industry, investing, and content area specialists) to collaborate in ways that have the potential to advance real change.
NOTE: The lab in Fall 2026 will focus on ventures that are working in various industries, but with a shared focus on developing innovative approaches to address climate change and environmental sustainability. You do not need to have a background in climate or sustainability, just an interest in learning in these domains. Projects will be defined by the startup founder(s) in collaboration with the course instructor.
MGMT8900 - Advanced Study-Ind
Course offered for advanced study projects for group projects and activities. Course is comprised of various topics and points of focus, ranging across multiple concentrations of Management, (i.e., Entrepreneurial, Strategy, Organizational Business, etc.).
MGMT8970 - Global Modular Course A
Special course arranged for Wharton MBA students, focused on global business, management and innovation.
MGMT8980 - Global Modular Course B
Special course arranged for Wharton MBA students, focused on global business, management and innovation.
MGMT9380 - Seminar in Social Entrep
This half-semester course examines how social enterprise organizations emerge, attract resources, and affect society. The course will bridge micro and macro theoretical perspectives to provide insight into the unique challenges faced by social enterprises, while also showing how the study of such organizations can help to advance mainstream entrepreneurship research. Individual sessions will focus on defining social entrepreneurship, the tensions and tradeoffs that emerge in organizations that pursue social and financial goals, impact investing and other sources of finance, and the role of incubators/accelerators in supporting the development of these organizations. This is a seminar-based course with active discussion and analysis.
MGMT9700 - Research Methods in Mgmt
Students taking the course will be introduced to the seminal readings on a given method, have a hands-on discussion regarding their application often using a paper and dataset of the faculty member leading the discussion. The goal of the course is to make participants more informed users and reviewers of a wide variety of methodological approaches to Management research including Ordinary Least Squares, Discrete Choice, Count Models, Panel Data, Dealing with Endogeneity, Survival/failure/event history and event studies, experiments, factor analysis and structural equation modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, networks, comparative qualitative methods, coding of non-quantitative data, unstructured text and big data simulations.
MGMT9950 - Dissertation
Dissertation
MGMT9999 - Independent Study
An individual, PhD level course of study with guidance from an instructor, geared to a specific topic that is not part of the school's established curriculum.
