Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation provides a set of integrated academic and extracurricular experiences designed to develop an entrepreneurial competence in MBA students. Our academic program departs from traditional business studies by emphasizing social innovation and producing managers who know how to marshal resources for new wealth creations.
The Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation provides a set of integrated academic and extracurricular experiences designed to develop an entrepreneurial competence in MBA students. Our academic program departs from traditional business studies by emphasizing social innovation and producing managers who know how to marshal resources for new wealth creations.
Whether you’re a biology major with an idea for a new device to improve health care, a communications student looking to start your own marketing company or someone seeking to take on business development in a larger organization, the entrepreneurship minor at UCLA offers the knowledge to transform your entrepreneurial ideas into reality.
Entrepreneur Association
The organization of over 600 members works closely with the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation to prepare MBA candidates for the challenges of management in entrepreneurial environments. The EA holds over 50 events each year, including hands-on workshops, intimate networking events with successful entrepreneurs and local startups, and a world-class business plan competition.
Knapp Venture Competition
The Knapp Venture Competition is the premier academic business plan competition in Southern California, and has given more than 1,800 UCLA Anderson students a unique venture creation experience that has been instrumental in launching numerous businesses. Competition registration begins in March.
The UCLA Anderson Venture Accelerator is a six-month, immersive program designed UCLA to enable the success of promising startups.
The following are some of the companies founded by UCLA Anderson MBA students and alumni:
The Price Center administers numerous fellowships, award programs and teaching assistant opportunities that allow MBA students opportunities to test classroom theory and learn from a breadth of practical management experiences. Students who earn fellowships will put their management skills to work while developing their own entrepreneurial ideas in such areas as finance, nonprofit management and small business consulting.