The Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship

What We Do

Courses for Credit in Degree Programs

  • Global Enterprise (required)
  • The Global Business Plan (elective) 
  • Growing an Entrepreneurial Business (elective)
  • Entrepreneurship - Valuation of the Private Firm (elective)
  • Entrepreneurial Financing and Forecasting (elective)
  • Managing the Global Family-Owned Business (elective)
  • The Entrepreneur/CEO Founders Seminar (elective)
  • Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies (elective)
  • Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise (elective)
  • Dealing with Entrepreneurial Mistakes (elective - not yet offered)

Entrepreneurship is a Focus Area in the MBA Degree Programs Academic Areas


Global Innovation and Creativity and Corporate Venturing

  • Endowed Professor of Global Innovation 
  • Executive Education Programs
  • Global Research  

Global Family Enterprise

  • Endowed Professor of Global Family Business
  • Executive Education Programs
  • Global Family Enterprise - 2011 dates pending 
  • Global Research

Global Social Entrepreneurship

  • Endowed Professor of Social Entrepreneurship 
  • Executive Education Programs
  • Global Research

Center Applications

  • Global Women Entrepreneurship - Project Artemis started November 2006
  • Partnership with Goldman Sachs - 10,000 Women - Afghanistan
  • Enterprise Scholars
  • Thunderbird Entrepreneurship Network (TEN)
  • Entrepreneurs in Residence
  • Incubator for Alumni/Faculty/Staff/Student New Ventures 
  • Global Business Plan Competition