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.