The entrepreneurship M.B.A. encourages students to
generate new sources of enterprise, come up with innovative business
ideas, and create new jobs. The program teaches students how to start
the business they've been dreaming about. Students learn the necessary
skills they need and meet an entirely new network made up of classmates,
professors, and alumni who will be their future advisers, mentors,
investors, and business partners. Rutgers' ambitious, entrepreneurial,
and collaborative environment is the perfect place for students to get
their business ideas rolling.
Award-Winning Entrepreneurship Faculty and Programs
The New Jersey Black Issues Convention awarded its prestigious
Community Change Award to Professor Jeffrey Robinson, director of the
New Jersey Social Innovation Institute, part of Rutgers Business
School's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.
Robinson was awarded for community change in the area of economic
security and opportunity. Through a partnership with Public Service
Electric & Gas, the business school's Social Innovation Institute
recently completed a program to train and mentor aspiring entrepreneurs
and, ultimately, to help create new businesses and jobs.
Annual Business Plan Competition
Innovation in business, whether spurred by competition or an
entrepreneurial spirit, is the spark to progress. Students and recent
alumni are invited to enter the Rutgers Business School Business Plan Competition,
an annual event that has been awarding cash prizes to entrepreneurial
students for 10 years to give great ideas the push to start viable
businesses.
Each year, students compete for $40,000 in prizes to help launch or
jump-start their businesses. The objective of the Rutgers Business
School Business Plan Competition is to encourage M.B.A. entrepreneurs and
support job growth in New Jersey. In order to compete for the business
competition prizes, there must be a serious intent to launch the
proposed business.
Within the subject of entrepreneurship, RBS focuses on urban
development with the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development at Rutgers Business School.
Contact Information
Petra Christmann
Professor and Department Chair
Dawn Gist
Administrative Assistant
1 Washington Park, Room 1014
Newark NJ 07102
973-353-1650
dmgist@business.rutgers.edu
Audrey Louis
Administrative Assistant
100 Rock, Room 2145
848-445-3560
alouis@business.rutgers.edu
