The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) offers many courses related to entrepreneurship across a variety of disciplines, including accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, and strategy. The Stanford MBA program is designed to give students a foundation in general management and does not offer a degree or certificate in entrepreneurship. Please refer to our 2014-15 Entrepreneurial Course List which outlines entrepreneurial courses for graduate students at the GSB and across Stanford generally.

Startup Garage, offered by the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is an intensive hands-on and project-based course in which students apply the concepts of design thinking, engineering, finance, business and organizational skills to design and test new business concepts that address real world needs . Our aspiration is to help teams identify an unmet customer need, design new products or services that meet that need, and develop business models to support the creation and launch of startup products or services. Even those teams that do not successfully launch a venture or decide not to move forward will learn critical techniques about starting and launching a venture. Over the two quarters, teams will interact extensively with the teaching team and a handful of seasoned advisors they chose.

For students not enrolled in the MBA or Stanford MSx Program, the Graduate School of Business offers two other programs:

• Stanford Ignite is an academic program for individuals formulating, developing and commercializing ideas. This innovative program provides exposure to both the fundamentals of business and the practical aspects of identifying, evaluating, and moving business ideas forward. The program uniquely combines current graduate students with innovators, scientists, and engineers from leading companies.

• The Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship is a four-week business program for current non-business master's, PhD, MD, and post-doc students which examines the process of turning an innovative idea into a successful venture. Current graduate students with backgrounds in engineering, medicine, science and humanities are offered the unique opportunity to build the analytical and practical skills critical to business management and entrepreneurship.