The Global MBA Entrepreneurship track

Kick-start your startup project by choosing the EDHEC MBA Entrepreneurship track. By the time you’ve completed your Global MBA, you’ll have your venture’s business plan in hand and will know how to finance and market your dream.

Fundamentals for entrepreneurial resolve

The 1-month entrepreneurship track will provide you with the tools, confidence, and foundations from which to build a business on solid footing. It covers the 3 main pillars or a successful business

Innovation

Innovating New Products and Services

Develop a clear understanding of sustaining versus disruptive innovation and which is best suited for your new product or service opportunity. Lay the groundwork for a strong innovation strategy while also determining your organisation’s capabilities and limitations.

Business

Building a Scalable Business

Learn how your business can continue to maintain or improve profit margins while market demands gradually increase. This includes aspects such as how to hire the right staff, manage and engage growing teams, create a motivating company culture, and sustain a shared vision.

New Ventures

Marketing and Financing New Ventures

Discover how to determine the amount of capital required to get started, and how to get angel investors to consider your project. Learn the ins and outs of new venture marketing and marketing plans that help create and maintain demand, relevance, competition, and reputation.

Innovating New Products and Services

Develop a clear understanding of sustaining versus disruptive innovation and which is best suited for your new product or service opportunity. Lay the groundwork for a strong innovation strategy while also determining your organisation’s capabilities and limitations.

Building a Scalable Business

Learn how your business can continue to maintain or improve profit margins while market demands gradually increase. This includes aspects such as how to hire the right staff, manage and engage growing teams, create a motivating company culture, and sustain a shared vision.

Marketing and Financing New Ventures

Discover how to determine the amount of capital required to get started, and how to get angel investors to consider your project. Learn the ins and outs of new venture marketing and marketing plans that help create and maintain demand, relevance, competition, and reputation.

The Entrepreneurship track has benefited me greatly because I’m regularly analysing and writing business plans, working with other entrepreneurs on commercialisation strategies, developing financial forecasts, and even creating pitch decks. The best gift, however, is that the elements of running a business that used to cause me anxiety no longer do—and in fact, I now find them to be fun challenges!

Stephanie Ayars

EDHEC Global MBA alumna 2021, Founder & CMO, Alchimie Marketing

EDHEC’s Entrepreneurship MBA is the ideal choice for business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs, and startup founders

During the EDHEC Global MBA for entrepreneurs, you will learn how to:

Meet legal requirements and create an effective and sustainable business.
Run a business, manage growth, excel in leadership, and retain teams.
Work in synergy with your cohort and entrepreneurial alumni to gain tips and inspiration.

Incorporate feedback from professionals, professors, coaches, and mentors.
Create the blueprint for your own entrepreneurial project.
Work with the EDHEC Entrepreneurs startup-incubator for tangible direction.

Make your entrepreneurial dream a reality

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A learning expedition to one of the world's most famous entrepreneurial hubs

During the MBA’s Entrepreneurial track, you will travel to a strategically selected city for a 1-week learning expedition. During this time, you will:

Immerse yourself in a world-famous entrepreneurial hub to explore new-venture ecosystems and gain insight from startup-incubators, VC investors, etc.
Discuss trends and disruptions with leaders in your specialisation.
See the world through the eyes of seasoned business owners and entrepreneurs willing to share their expertise with you. These include executive managers of successful global companies such as Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

The Entrepreneurship Track business trip was amazing with great learnings and insights! We had the opportunity to meet start-ups, tech companies, venture capital funds, and other players that form the Silicon Valley ecosystem and that foster innovation in the region.

Renato Figueroa

EDHEC Global MBA Alumnus, Marketing & Sales Manager, ABB

Discover the complete Global MBA programme

An Entrepreneurship MBA for startups with support and direction from a renowned startup ecosystem

The EDHEC Entrepreneurs incubator is a member of STATION F, the world’s biggest start-up campus, in the heart of Paris. As a participant of the MBA Entrepreneurship track, you will have free access to this ecosystem, where you can receive a wealth of support in the creation of your entrepreneurial endeavour. You will receive numerous opportunities for continuous evolution as an alumnus as well. The incubator conducts over 400 exploratory interviews and validates some 30 laureate projects each year.

Entrepreneurial success stories

EDHEC alumni Tingting Miao and Daniel Bernal Bachiller  leveraged the resources and opportunities of the EDHEC Entrepreneurship track to launch two innovative e-commerce startups. From expanding their network and making invaluable connections to developing solid business knowledge, they had everything they needed to become successful serial entrepreneurs. 

After graduating with a Global MBA from EDHEC in 2020, Plinio Herrera Schuwirth founded the Greentech startup EO2 together with fellow EDHEC alumni Marco Bassan Guerrieri. They found that EDHEC’s MBA motivates entrepreneurs and startups to drive change in the sustainability and climate field. So, they decided to use what they had learned throughout their entrepreneurship MBA as a catalyst for their venture.

Focus on setting up a business plan during your 2-month MBA Project phase

Each year, up to 15% of EDHEC’s Global MBA students set up their own businesses after graduation. Following completion of the Entrepreneurship track, you can elect to draw up your own business plan as part of your MBA project to determine what is detrimental to the success of your venture, and evaluate its economic feasibility. During the 2-month MBA project phase you will have the advantage of receiving expert feedback throughout the process, and can pitch your business plan to “business angels”. What better way to get your entrepreneurial dream off the ground!

It’s time to make your entrepreneurial dream come true

Evaluate your profile to speak to one of our career advisors for more information on tracks, MBA electives and how you can kickstart your business with the EDHEC Global MBA.

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MBA Entrepreneurship track FAQ

What is taught in an MBA entrepreneurship programme?

The entrepreneurship MBA program teaches participants how to build strong innovation strategies for the development of new products and services, how to create a scalable business with the right company culture, and how to market and finance one’s new venture. The MBA Entrepreneurship track at EDHEC Business School allows aspiring entrepreneurs to create a blueprint for their own startup and pitch their business plan to “business angels”. It provides them with access to the EDHEC Entrepreneurs startup-incubator, a member of STATION F, the world’s biggest start-up campus.

Is an MBA in entrepreneurship worth it?

Knowing all about business essentials before embarking on an entrepreneurial project, will save you angst and will help you avoid pitfalls that could harm your venture. An entrepreneurship MBA is worth it because it engages participants in subjects such as financing, raising capital, HR, business laws, accounting and payroll, technology, new product and service innovation, and marketing. It helps you gain confidence and expertise in areas that may not be your strong points. Overall, an MBA with an entrepreneurship track encourages you to view your business as a complex system of interconnected specialties that must all be consolidated under a unifying mission.

How does an MBA help in entrepreneurship?

An entrepreneurship MBA is a transformational experience both on an entrepreneurial and a personal level. During an MBA for entrepreneurs, participants:

Gain insight into how to meet legal requirements and create an effective and sustainable business.
Receive the tools for excelling in leadership, running a business, managing growth, and retaining teams.
Expand their entrepreneurial outlook within an international cohort.
Get tangible support and direction from a well-established start-up ecosystem.
Receive feedback from professionals, professors, coaches, and mentors.
Create the blueprint for their own entrepreneurial project.

The MBA Entrepreneurship track at EDHEC Business School, allows aspiring entrepreneurs to create a business plan for their own startup and pitch it to “business angels”. It also provides them with access to the EDHEC Entrepreneurs startup-incubator, a member of STATION F, the world’s biggest start-up campus.

How does the MBA stay updated?

The MBA Entrepreneurship track stays at the forefront of entrepreneurship thanks to its faculty. The curriculum is crafted and delivered by top professionals in the field. These experts are continually scouting and integrating the latest practices into the course, ensuring that the learning experience is both current and relevant.

Learning expeditions will take you to some of the world's most innovative companies, where you will meet leading entrepreneurs who set new trends.

Are there any opportunities to secure funding through the MBA Entrepreneurship track?

The MBA Entrepreneurship track offers many networking opportunities and learning expeditions, allowing you to meet industry leaders and venture capital funds.

During the MBA, you will gain the skills to secure funding for your company, assess the necessary capital to launch your business idea and to persuade investors to consider your projects.

Is there a focus on ethical entrepreneurship within the MBA?

As part of the Global MBA, the entrepreneurship track also addresses environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues.

EDHEC Business School is a leader in ESG: the Global MBA was ranked by the Financial Times as the world's 3rd best programme for ESG education in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Notably, the MBA includes a week-long sustainability expedition, designed to teach participants how to effectively incorporate ESG considerations into their business models, thus making a tangible difference in the world. A 5-month sustainability challenge in cooperation with partner companies runs alongside the programme as well. .