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How the Center Fits into the Graduate School of Business
The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies strives to demystify entrepreneurship by exposing students to the issues founders face and by providing a set of tools for addressing those challenges.
Our goal is not to encourage students to pursue entrepreneurship careers or to provide them with a step-by step process for starting a company. Rather, the GSB offers an education in general management, and regardless of their career path, all students should understand the issues facing entrepreneurs and growing companies.
We believe business school students should interact with their peers from other schools within the university. We work to encourage this interaction between MBAs, engineers, lawyers, and medical school students through joint classes, events, and collaborative programs.
About Us
Link for a video overview of the CES. 
Rationale
University-based study of entrepreneurship provides an objective means to develop greater understanding of current and future entrepreneurial companies. The Center acts as a hub for the interests and pursuits of the entrepreneurial players—faculty, students, and practitioners.
The center supports entrepreneurs by:
- Graduating well-trained managers
- Anticipating the issues and encouraging research
- Highlighting issues requiring public policy attention
Goals
The CES promotes and supports research in entrepreneurship, developing and teaching courses to be taught within the MBA curriculum. It seeks to:
- Encourage rigorous, relevant research on entrepreneurial companies.
- Graduate well-trained, entrepreneurial thinkers.
- Offer a higher probability of success for those embarking on entrepreneurial ventures.
- Lead partnerships between Stanford Business School and the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network.
Background
The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies was founded in 1996 and serves faculty, students, and alumni of the GSB and Stanford University. Programs for students include internships and topical panels and speakers. Some of our programs are open to the community at large.
Suggestions or Comments?
Please email us: ces@gsb.stanford.edu