Seminar in Corporate Entrepreneurship
MIT Sloan School's seminar looks at how established companies try to act entrepreneurial once they already have products, bureaucracy, and shareholders to answer to. Faculty lectures cover the roles that show up inside corporate entrepreneurship programs, from internal venture champions to the executives who have to decide which new ideas get funding and which get killed. Outside speakers, drawn from practitioners working on these problems inside real companies, join the faculty to talk through what actually happens when a large organization tries to behave like a startup. Materials on MIT OpenCourseWare include the syllabus and course readings, free to use under MIT's open license, with no tuition or enrollment required to work through them. Aimed at students who already have some grounding in management or entrepreneurship, the course treats corporate entrepreneurship as a practical management problem rather than an abstract strategy topic, focused on organizational roles, incentives, and the friction between innovation and existing corporate structure.