Stanford Entrepreneurship Courses

Students at Stanford Graduate School of Business have access to entrepreneurship courses from across the university.

Experiential Courses

Functional Courses

Industry-Specific Courses

Startup Fundamentals

Social Innovation Courses

Ecopreneurship Courses

Experiential Courses

Entrepreneurial experiential courses offer hands-on learning about the process of evaluating new venture opportunities.

Course Title	Quarters	School
The Startup Garage: Design	AUT	GSB
The Startup Garage: Testing and Launch	WIN	GSB
Design for Extreme Affordability I	WIN	GSB / SoE / d.school
Design for Extreme Affordability II	SPR	GSB / SoE / d.school
Biodesign Innovation: Concept Development and Implementation	SPR	GSB / SoM
Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation	WIN	GSB / SoM
Hacking for Climate and Sustainability	WIN	SDSS
Hacking for Defense: Solving National Security Issues with the Lean Launchpad	SPR	SoE
The Lean LaunchPad: Getting Your Lean Startup Off the Ground	WIN, SPR	SoE
Venture Creation for the Real Economy	WIN	SoE
LaunchPad: Design and Launch Your Product or Service	SPR	SoE / d.school
Stanford Climate Ventures	WIN, SPR	SDSS

Functional Courses

Learn critical functional skills from the perspective of new and growing ventures.

Course Title	Quarters	School
Product Design and Manufacturing
Advanced Product Design	AUT, WIN	SoE
Computer-Aided Product Creation	AUT, WIN, SPR	SoE
Design and Manufacturing	AUT, WIN, SPR	SoE
Forecasting for Innovators: Exponential Technologies, Tools and Social Transformation	WIN	SoE
Global Engineering Design Thinking, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship	AUT, WIN, SPR	SoE
Smart Product Design	AUT, WIN	SoE
The Magic of Materials and Manufacturing	AUT	SoE
Creative Gym: A Design Thinking Skills Studio	AUT	SoE / d.school
d.Leadership: Leading Disruptive Innovation	SPR	SoE / d.school
Marketing
Customer Experience Design (CxDesign)	WIN	GSB
Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations	SPR	GSB
Fundamentals of Effective Selling	AUT	GSB
Go to Market	SPR	GSB
Global Entrepreneurial Marketing	AUT	SoE
Tell, Make, Engage: Action Stories for Entrepreneuring	AUT, WIN, SPR	SoE
Finance
Angel and Venture Capital Financing for Entrepreneurs and Investors	AUT	GSB
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital	WIN	GSB
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Partnership for Growth	WIN	GSB
Financial Management for Entrepreneurs	SPR	GSB
Investment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance	AUT	GSB
Venture Capital	SPR	SLS
Accounting for Managers and Entrepreneurs	SPR	SoE
Entrepreneurial Management and Finance	SPR	SoE
Human Resources
People Operations: From Startup to Scaleup	WIN	GSB
Legal
Patent Law and Strategy for Innovators and Entrepreneurs	AUT	SoE
Technology Licensing and Commercialization	WIN, SPR	SoE

Industry-Specific Courses

Students can learn about innovating within industries that interest them through these courses.

Course Title	Quarters	School
Technology
Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation in Established Firms	SPR	GSB
Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation in Enterprise Software Firms	SPR	GSB
Strategies of Effective Product Management	WIN	GSB
Entrepreneurship in Asian High Tech Industries	SPR	SoE
Frontier Technology: Understanding and Preparing for Technology in the Next Economy	SPR	SoE
Topics in International Technology Management	AUT	SoE
Web3 Entrepreneurship: Future Models of Value Creation Connecting the Real and Digital Economy	AUT, WIN, SPR	SoE
Health Care
Innovation and Management in Health Care	WIN	GSB
Leading Strategic Change in the Health Care Industry	AUT	GSB
Technology Assessment and Regulation of Medical Devices	SPR	SoE
Biodesign for Digital Health	AUT	SoM
Biodesign Fundamentals	SPR	SoM
Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health	AUT	SoM
Launching a Healthcare Venture: The Nuts and Bolts of Founding a Start Up	SPR	SoM
Transportation
Strategic Thinking in Action - In Business and Beyond II (Automotive Industry Disruption)	AUT	GSB
Education
Disruptions in Education	WIN	GSB / GSE
Entrepreneurial Approaches to Education Reform	AUT	GSB / GSE
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education Technology Seminar	SPR	GSB / GSE
Entrepreneurship in Education: A Comparative Analysis of the US and Emerging Markets	WIN	GSB
Transforming Education through Entrepreneurship	AUT	GSB / GSE
Search Funds
Entrepreneurial Acquisition	AUT, WIN, SPR	GSB
Search Fund Garage	SPR	GSB
Other
Family Business	SPR	GSB
Sports Business Management	WIN	GSB
The Future of Cities: Entrepreneurship, Policy & Business Strategy	SPR	GSB
The Yin and Yang of Family Business Transitions	AUT	GSB
Future of Work: A Lab for Startups	WIN	GSB
Creating and Leading New Ventures in Engineering and Science-based Industries	SPR	SoE
Opportunities in PropTech and ConTech Seminar	WIN	SoE

Startup Fundamentals Courses

Students gain insight into starting and leading a new business through foundational courses.

Course Title	Quarters	School
AI and Data Science: Strategy, Management and Entrepreneurship	WIN	GSB
Beyond Disruption: Entrepreneurial Leadership Within Existing Organizations	AUT	GSB
Conversations in Management	AUT, WIN, SPR	GSB
Creating a New Venture in a Developing Economy	SPR	GSB
Creating and Scaling High Potential Ventures in Developing Economies (Cases)	SPR	GSB
Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures	AUT, WIN, SPR	GSB
Entrepreneurship from Diverse Perspectives	AUT	GSB
From Invention to Innovation: The Process of Translation	SPR	GSB
Managing Growing Enterprises	AUT, WIN, SPR	GSB
Product/Market Fit	WIN	GSB
Riding The Next Wave in Developing Economies	AUT	GSB
Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy	SPR	SoE
Entrepreneurial Leadership	WIN, SPR	SoE
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders’ Seminar	AUT, WIN, SPR	SoE
Entrepreneurship without Borders	SPR	SoE
Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions	AUT, WIN	SoE
Secret Foundations of Scalable Startups	WIN	SoE
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition	AUT	SoHS

Social Innovation Courses

Course Title	Quarters	School
Impact: Assessing High Impact Business Models in Emerging Markets	WIN	GSB
Impact: From Idea to Enterprise	WIN	GSB
Problem Solving for Social Change	AUT	GSB
Impact: Taking Social Innovation to Scale	SPR	GSB
Design for Extreme Affordability I	WIN	GSB / SoE / d.school
Design for Extreme Affordability II	SPR	GSB / SoE / d.school
Challenging the Status Quo: Social Entrepreneurs Advancing Democracy, Development and Justice	SPR	SoHS
Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings	WIN	SoM
Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health	WIN	SoM
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab)	AUT	SoM, SoHS

Ecopreneurship

These courses explore strategies and methods for entrepreneurs interested in solving climate and environmental challenges.

Course Title	Quarters	School
Startup Garage: Design	AUT	GSB
Startup Garage: Testing and Launch	WIN	GSB
Climate Tech for Rapid Decarbonization	WIN	GSB
Energy: Innovation, Policy & Business Strategy	SPR	GSB
Big Ideas & Open Opportunities in Climate-Tech Entrepreneurship	AUT	SDSS
Case Studies in Leading Change for Sustainability	WIN	SDSS
Hacking for Climate and Sustainability	WIN	SDSS
Stanford Climate Ventures	WIN, SPR	SDSS
Engineering, Entrepreneurship & Climate Change	WIN	SoE