MBA Family Enterprise Focus
Overview
The MBA Family Enterprise Focus is intended to prepare students for leadership in their family firms. It will complement their MBA coursework by providing a lens with which to view other academic disciplines. Students also may choose to couple this Focus with a Concentration in another area of interest.
Students will be able to customize this Focus to create a learning plan that will address the strategic vision of their family firms and that will build upon their individual strengths. A key benefit is a robust network of peers and family business leaders that will be a resource both during and after their UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA experience.
MBA Focus Requirements
To receive a certificate of completion for the Family Enterprise Focus, MBA students must complete a total of five (5) courses or the equivalent of 7.5 credits from the following list:
Required: Two Courses (total of 3.0 credits)
- MBA 843A: Family Business I: Introduction to Family Enterprise (Steve Miller & Cooper Biersach)
- MBA 843B: Family Business II: Governance & Ownership in the Family Firm (Steve Miller & Cooper Biersach)
Electives: Minimum of three courses (total of 4.5 credits):
- MBA 794: Private Wealth Management
- MBA 799: Governance and Financial Accountability
- MBA 805: Corporate Strategy
- MBA 807: Leadership Immersion
- MBA 817: Venture Capital Valuation and Deal Structure
- MBA 823: Leading from the Middle
- MBA 828: Strategic Innovation
- MBA 835: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- MBA 843: Entrepreneurship through Acquisitions: Structuring your Buyout
- MBA 846A: Private Equity
- MBA 846J: Business Plan Analysis
- MBA 846K: Startups: Ideas, Passion, and Intellectual Property
- MBA845: Navigating Self, Conflict, and Change
- MBA 847: Sales Management
- MBA 848A: Launching the Venture: Opportunity
- MBA 848B: Launching the Venture: Feasibility
- MBA 848C: Launching the Venture: Business Planning
- MBA 848D: Launching the Venture: Financing
- MBA 853B Real Estate Law
- MBA 853C International Real Estate Investment
- MBA 853D Real Estate Macroeconomics and Securities Markets
- MBA 853E Financing Real Estate in Today’s Capital Markets
- MBA 854 Real Estate Development Process – Development
- MBA 854A Real Estate Development – Finance
- MBA 880P: STAR/ Leadership Project
- MBA 852 Real Estate Process
The coordinator for the Family Enterprise Focus is Cooper Biersach. Please contact her with questions.