Entrepreneurship
From Silicon Alley to Silicon Valley, we launch tomorrow’s big thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurial leaders.
Curriculum
A Curriculum Customized to Your Goals
You need a curriculum that is relevant to your career goals. We provide the options to get you there. Choose up to three areas of focus from over 25. From there, you can dial in your experience by selecting from a pool of over 200 electives.
With a course of study that is as agile and forward-thinking as you, you will develop a well-rounded understanding of entrepreneurship and related functions, including venture capital, private equity, social entrepreneurship, and small business.
Related Specializations:
Prepares students for careers in product management, brand management, marketing management, and consulting.
Provides students with the strategic and analytical skills to guide organizations in a digital world that is overflowing with data on customers, products, and interactions.
Prepares entrepreneurially-minded students with a valuable understanding of what it is like to work in venture capital, private equity, social entrepreneurship, and small businesses.
FinTech covers technology-enabled business model innovation in the financial sector. Such innovation can disrupt existing industry structures and blur industry boundaries, facilitate strategic disintermediation, revolutionize how firms create and deliver products and services, provide new gateways for entrepreneurship, and seed opportunities for inclusive growth.
Prepares students and practitioners to pursue high-level careers at the intersection of law and business.
Management and consulting require resourcefulness, a faculty for learning, and advanced strategic thinking. A specialization in Strategy provides a necessary foundation for tomorrow’s business leaders.
Related Coursework:
- Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: FinTech
- Brand Strategy
- Foundations of Entrepreneurship
- Law & Business of Social Enterprise
- Managing Growing Companies
- Marketing for Entrepreneurs
- Social Problem-Based Entrepreneurship
- Managing Family Businesses and Privately Held Firms
- Business Start-Up Practicum
- Family Business
Career
Your Career Accelerator
Whether you are launching a new enterprise, taking over the family business, or investing in start-up ventures, the Careers Team serves as a launchpad for your individual career goals.
Launching Your Venture
The Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, our very own entrepreneurial hub, helps students to launch and lead high-growth companies by providing extensive mentorship and guidance, cutting-edge research and high-profile new venture competitions.
Sponsored by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, the NYU Stern Entrepreneurs Challenge is comprised of three competitions, with winners sharing $225,000 in seed funding plus pro bono startup services:
- New Venture Competition - winners receive up to $75,000
- Healthcare Venture Competition- winners receive up to $75,000
- Digital Technology Venture Competition - winners receive up to $75,000
The prize money from the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge is made possible by the generous support of the Rennert Family Foundation, Mr. Ira Rennert (MBA ‘56) and Mr. Ari Rennert (BS ‘01).
Selected Businesses and Social Enterprises Started by Stern Alumni:
- Alala (Denise Lee, MBA '10)
- The Black Tux (Patrick Coyne, MBA '10)
- Block Six Analytics, acquired by Excel Sports Management (Adam Grossman, MBA '10)
- Big Bad Boo (Shabnam Rezaei, MBA ’01)
- Butter Beans (Belinda Di Giambattista, MBA '05)
- Cosi (Andy Stenzler, MBA '84)
- MAAT Active (Beth Godfrey, MBA ‘04)
- Brooklyn Delhi (Chitra Agrawal, MBA ‘07)
- DEFI Snacks (Tatyana Jones, MBA ‘15)
- TALEA Beer Co (Tara Hankinson, MBA ‘15)
- Doonya (Priya Pandya, MBA '09)
- JUARA (Metta Murdaya, MBA '02, Yoshiko Roth, MBA '02)
- Beyond Good by Madecasse (Brian McCollum, MBA '07)
- Mott & Bow (Alejandro Chahin, MBA '13)
- Seamless (Jason Finger, JD/MBA '99)
- TransPerfect (Liz Elting, MBA '92, Phil Shawe, MBA '93)
- Toast (Punit Seth, MBA ‘10)
- Mary Taylor Wine (Mary Taylor, MBA ‘17)
- Malai Ice Cream (Pooja Bavishi, MBA ‘15)
- OOSO Sparkling Tea (Oliver Spring, MBA ‘24)
Faculty Spotlight
Arun Sundararajan
Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship, Arun Sundararajan, explains the fundamental transition in trust and power that is under way, unravels the paradox of digital trust in the face of a perceived trust crisis and calls on us to embed the right values into AI and platforms.
Alumni Voice
Tara Hankinson, MBA 2015
Tara used her MBA from NYU Stern to found and develop Talea Beer Co. one of the only women-run craft breweries in New York City.
Student Blog
Julia Kingsley, MBA 2026
"New York is also one of the best places to launch a platform like ours given our core financial services, research and online retail focus; so many of our potential customers are here. Plus, the ambition, urgency, and energy push you to move faster and think bigger."
Community and Clubs
Stern Entrepreneurship and Startup Association (ESA)
ESA helps students, alumni and affiliated entrepreneurs achieve entrepreneurial success and career goals.
Social Impact and Sustainability Association
The mission of SISA is to propel the next generation of socially responsible business leaders through education, inspiration and conversation.
The Stern Technology Association
STA provides networking and career-building opportunities for MBA students interested in pursuing careers with technology companies - from mature tech to early stage startups.
W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs
Berkley Innovation Labs support entrepreneurs at all stages of their venture, helping students launch and lead high-growth companies.
Leslie eLab
The Mark and Debra Leslie Entrepreneurs Lab is a facility where aspiring NYU entrepreneurs can connect, collaborate and develop their ideas.
Experiential Learning
Stern Venture Fellows Program
Build your own venture immediately after completing your degree. Awarded fellows spend 10 weeks on both coasts developing their ideas and receive a $10,000 stipend, a prototyping fee, workspace, mentorship and group workshops.
Tech and the City
Students learn about digital entrepreneurship through the lens of successful early-stage technology companies. Student work with different startups from the investment portfolios of Union Square Ventures and other leading tech-focused venture capital firms throughout their semester.
Endless Frontier Lab
The Endless Frontier Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.