Academic Entrepreneurial Programs

High School MBA – Anderson Scholar program
Pulling together the entire program of Entrepreneur Institute activities, Anderson Scholars must complete a wide-range of curricular and extra-curricular requirements. Students earn recognition as an Anderson Scholar with an Entrepreneurship Concentration after completing this rigorous, three-year program. For students who have a passion for business, the Anderson Scholars program provides a unique opportunity to learn about and experience entrepreneurship.

Business Courses: Two focused business courses, Microeconomics and History of Capitalism, help students gain great preparation for a career in management or in starting their own enterprises.

Microeconomics is a full-year course providing students with an understanding of the principles of economics that apply to the functions of individual decision makers, both consumers and producers. Basic economic concepts are covered such as opportunity cost, comparative advantage, and marginal analysis. The nature and function of product markets are explored within four broad areas: supply and demand models, consumer choice, production and cost analysis, and the theory of the firm.

Students examine the primary market factors – labor, capital, and land. They learn about how the principles of microeconomics, impact business strategy and marketing decisions. When applying these principles, there are two areas of focus: knowledge of business terminology and techniques, and problem solving. For example, students learn the meaning of market share, overhead, gross profit, strategic positioning, and other terms. Then, the students learn to apply these concepts using Harvard Business School case studies and an online business simulation tool, JA Titan.

Students also learn to build mathematical models that apply real-world data to the microeconomic concepts they are studying. For example, the logistic curve is examined as it applies to the adoption of technology by American society over the last 100 years. Extensive use is made of Excel-based modeling during the study of management accounting. Throughout the year, students learn business communication skills including writing effective emails, executive summaries, and PowerPoint presentations.

History of Capitalism is a one semester elective course utilizing a series of readings to analyze the history and development of the American free enterprise system with a focus on management. Students study the origins of the modern corporation beginning with the Dutch East India Company and the industrial revolution in England, then move on to the emergence of large corporations, primarily railroads, in the late 19th century.

Next the course takes a detailed look at the automotive industry in the twentieth century through readings by Alfred Sloan, who lead General Motors from 1923 – 1956, and W. Edwards Deming, who helped revitalize the Japanese industrial economy. The book The EMyth by Michael Gerber brings the study of management down to the level of a business startup. This classic book focuses on the effective management of the most common enterprise – small business. The semester concludes with a broad look at modern management theory through the study of Peter Drucker’s seminal work, The Practice of Management, is studied as well as Jim Collins' Good to Great.
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