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Entrepreneurial Leadership/
Gordon Institute
DIRECTOR:
James Barlow, Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship & Business
Planning, Field Studies
FACULTY:
Frank Apeseche, Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Finance
Jack Derby, Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Marketing
Gavin Finn, Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Marketing
Jeremy Halpern, Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Leadership
John F. Hodgman, Professor of the Practice, Special Topics,
Field Studies
Peter Marton, Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Leadership
Inge Milde, Lecturer, Entrepreneurship & Business Planning
Felice Shapiro, Lecturer, Entrepreneurship & Business
Planning
Pamela Stepp, Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Leadership
Rich Wilmot, Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Finance
The Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Tufts
provides hands-on educational opportunities for
students interested in founding their own companies
or working in entrepreneurial environments. The
program strives to engage students in the everchanging
world of new business ventures and
teaches them to develop innovative, real-world
solutions to business challenges.
The program attracts top faculty and continuously
works to develop industry partnerships to
provide students with internship and networking
opportunities. Through our rigorous curriculum
and connections to alumni in business and industry,
the program strives to benefit both students and the
corporate community. With access to outstanding
teachers, intensive coursework, guest speakers,
internships, and real-world business networks, our
students develop the advanced knowledge they
need to become the entrepreneurial leaders of the
future.
A minor in entrepreneurial leadership is
available for all arts, sciences, and engineering
undergraduate and graduate students interested in
leadership positions at start-up companies or
entrepreneurial segments of the corporate or social
sector. Students are required to take four courses
plus one elective course from the lists below. All
courses must be taken for a grade. Students will
attend lectures, discuss relevant issues with guests
from the real world, complete homework assignments,
take tests, participate in focused discussions
of relevant issues and current events, and complete
a course project on a topic central to the theme of
the course.
Undergraduate engineering students may not
count any of these courses toward foundation and
concentration requirements.
After meeting the necessary requirements for
the minor, students complete the minor
certification form and return it to The Gordon
Institute.
Required Courses
ELS101 Entrepreneurship and Business Planning (or EC 74
or EM 153)
ELS103 Entrepreneurial Finance
ELS105 Entrepreneurial Marketing
ELS107 Entrepreneurial Leadership (or EM 54)
Elective Courses
ELS141 Innovative Social Enterprises (cross listed as
American Studies 141)
ELS193, 194 Special Topics: Internship/Research
ELS199 Entrepreneurial Field Studies: Launching the
Venture
180