McGuire Entrepreneurship
Applications open October 22, 2007
About McGuire Entrepreneurship
Eller graduate and undergraduate students are invited to apply for participation in the internationally acclaimed McGuire Entrepreneurship Program, a one-year major offered in the Eller College of Management. Tracks for all Eller graduate populations and undergraduate seniors are available in both traditional and corporate entrepreneurship. Applications will be available from www.FromIdea2Reality.com and the McGuire Center office, and will be accepted beginning October 22, 2007.
Who Should Apply?
The McGuire experience holds value for any student wanting to contribute more significantly in any professional or personal environment, to meaningfully impact problems and solutions, to move ideas about which they are passionate to reality. And of course, to launch new companies, create wealth, and strengthen economies and communities.
How Does It Work?
McGuire is a one-year program of study consisting of classes and modules built around the program goal of preparing students with knowledge, tools, and experience to successfully apply entrepreneurial principles in a range of environments.
The key method of McGuire teaching is the IdeaPath™. The vehicle for application is a problem-based, innovative, scalable venture concept that is moved through natural phases of entrepreneurial development including early idea formation and assessment and onto validation, strategy development, business plan authorship, and funding and application. Particular emphasis is placed on gaining intimate fluency of the ventures solution, customer, environment, social and economic impact, and potential to add value to a range of populations and needs.
Learn more at www.FromIdea2Reality.com.
About My Career
Graduates of the McGuire Program go on to succeed in exciting, transformative, and enriching professionsincluding starting new businessesboth for profit and not. bring ideas to reality. solutions to problems. dreams to life.
How to Apply
Applications will be available and accepted beginning October 22 for the 2008-09 class. Preferred selection will begin on January 21, 2008. Although applications may be taken after this date, applications received prior to January 21 will be given priority.
Applications are available online at www.FromIdea2Rreality.com, or in the McGuire Program office in McClelland Hall, Room 202. Schedule an advisor appointment at entre.advising@eller.arizona.edu.
Necessary application materials:
- Completed application
- Personal essay (two-page maximum) discussing interest in the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program and entrepreneurship in general. Applicants may include business ideas, social venture ideas, summary of professional experience, or other topics of relevance.
- Two letters of recommendation (undergraduate students only)
- Current resume
- Fall 2007 transcripts (unofficial)
All applicants will participate in a selection committee interview with faculty, mentors, and affiliates of the McGuire Program. Interviews will take place in January and February, and will be scheduled only after all application materials have been received.
We look forward to your application.
For more information, please visit www.FromIdea2Rreality.com.
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