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SoE = School of Engineering
STVP = Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering
GSB = Graduate School of Business
IPS = International Policy Studies
d.school = Institute of Design
SoM = School of Medicine
SoHS = School of Humanities and Sciences
SoL = School of Law
SoES - School of Earth Sciences
COMM - Department of Communication
There are 163 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Courses currently offered at Stanford
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Experiential “Hands-on” Entrepreneurship Courses
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP ENGR 245 The Lean LaunchPad: Building a Lean Startup Blank, Epstein, Weinstein
SoE/STVP MS&E 297 Hacking for Defense Blank, Byers, Felter, Newell
SoE/IPS/STVP MS&E 298/IPS 232 Hacking for Diplomacy Blank, Felter, Kirieger, Weinstein
SoE/STVP MS&E 273 Technology Venture Formation Lyons, Fuchs, Mokrian
SoE/d.school/STVP ME 301 LaunchPad: Design and Launch Your Product or Service Klebahn, Utley
SoE/d.school ME 316B Design Garage: A Deep Dive in Design Thinking MacDonald, Burnett, Kelley
SoE/d.school ME 377 Design Thinking Studio: Experiences in Innovation & Design Small, Jones, Shah
GSB STRAMGT 321 Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch I Rohan
GSB STRAMGT 322 Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch II Rohan
GSB STRAMGT 328 Social Ventures Practicum Meehan
GSB STRAMGT 356 Startup Garage I: Design Zenios, Siegelman, Galen, Lisbonne,
GSB STRAMGT 366 Startup Garage II: Testing and Launch Zenios, Siegelman, Galen, Lisbonne
GSB/SoE /d.school OIT 333 Design for Extreme Affordability I Patell, Beach, Coulson, Gorodsky
GSB/SoE /d.school OIT 334 Design for Extreme Affordability II Patell, Beach, Coulson, Gorodsky

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BioMedical Entrepreneurship Courses
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE MS&E 256/BIOE 256 Technology Assessment and Regulation of Medical Devices Pietzsch, Ester
GSB/SoM/SoE MED 272A Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation Yock, Brinton, Watkins
GSB/SoM/SoE MED 272B Biodesign Innovation: Concept Dev and Implementation Yock, Brinton, Watkins
SoM MED 271 Global Biodesign: Medical Technology in an International Context Yock, Brinton, Watkins
SoM MED 272A/B/BIOE374A/B/ Biodesign Innovation Yock, Zanchi
SoM MED 273/BIOE273 Biodesign for Mobile Health Yock, Zanchi
SoM MED 275 Biodesign: Medical Technology Innovation Yock, Brinton, Watkins
SoM BIOE 70Q Medical Device Innovation Mandato, Pierce
SoM BIOE 141A/B Bioengineering Senior Capstone Design Fan, Rait, Rogers, Shih, Swartz
SoM CSB 240A/B A Practical Approach to Drug Discovery and Development Grimes, Mochly-Rosen
SoM CSB 242 Drug Discovery and Development Seminar Series Grimes, Mochly-Rosen
SoM CSB 245 Economics of Biotechnology Grimes,
SoM SOMGEN 239 Preparation and Practice for Biotechnology Business and Finance Eberle
SoM BIOMEDIN 207 Digital Medicine: How health IT is changing the practice of medicine Cain
SoM BIOS 253 Discovery and Innovation in Emerging Viral Infections Einav
Ideation/Creativity
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP MS&E 175 Innovation, Creativity, and Change Katila
SoE/STVP MS&E 177 Creativity Rules Seelig, Cox, Hayes
SoE/d.school MS&E 277 Creativity and Innovation Seelig, Savoia
SoE/d.school ME 366 Design Thinking Studio: Hacking Your Innovation Mindset Cavagnaro, Carroll, Pferdt
GSB OB 317 Leading Creativity and Innovation Berg
GSB GSBGEN 541 Problem-Solving and Creativity Bendor

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Startup Basics/Foundations
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP ENGR 140 A/B/C Leadership of Technology Ventures Byers, Seelig
SoE/STVP ENGR 145 Technology Entrepreneurship Byers, Eesley, Kosnick
SoE/STVP MS&E 178 The Spirit of Entrepreneurship Belani, Corey, Ma
SoE/STVP MS&E 472 Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders’ Seminar Byers, Seelig
SoE/STVP CEE 246 Entrepreneurship in Civil and Environmental Engineering Fuchs, Levitt, Lyons, Mokrian
SoE MS&E 274 Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy Tse
SoE CHEM 296 Creating New Ventures in Engineering & Science-Based IndustriesLevy, Rosen
SoE ME 410A Introductory Foresight and Technological Innovation Cockayne
SoE ME 410B/C Advanced Foresight and Technological Innovation Cockayne
SoE CHEM 296 Creating New Ventures in Engineering and Science-Based Industries Levy, Rosen
GSB OB 512 Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures O’Reilly, Winarsky
GSB OIT 356 Electronic Business Mendelson
GSB STRAMGT 308 Entrepreneurship from Diverse Perspectives Mandelbaum
GSB STRAMGT 353 Formation of New Ventures Ellis, Chambers, Foster, Brady, Leslie, Bowman, Siegel, Speiser, Reiss, Chess
GSB STRAMGT 359 Aligning Startups with their Market Barnett, Rachleff
GSB STRAMGT 520 Industrialist’s Dilemma Siegel, Levie
GSB STRAMGT 543 Entrepreneurial Acquisition Dodson, Ellis, Risk, Kelly
GSB STRAMGT 546 Strategies for Growth Oyer
GSB STRAMGT 547 Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Developing Economies Antoni, Ciesinski, Rosen
GSB STRAMGT 584 Assessing High-Impact Business Models in Emerging Markets Bannick
Leadership, Team Building
SoE/STVP MS&E 180 Organizations: Theory and Management Eisenhardt, Hinds, Valdes
SoE/STVP MS&E 280 Organizational Behavior: Evidence in Action Sutton, Siino
SoE/STVP MS&E 475A/B Entrepreneurial Leadership Seelig
SoE/d.school MS&E 489d/ME 368 Leadership: Design Leadership in Context Utley, Klebahn, Sutton, Segovia
SoE MS&E 282 Transformational Leadership Tabrizi
GSB HRMGT 282 People Operations; From Startup to Scale-up Rao, Jaswa, Lilly

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GSB OB 324 The Psychology of Startup Teams Greer
GSB STRAMGT 504 Innovation and Non-Founder CEOs Layton, Rachleff
Scaling and Strategy
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP MS&E 270 Strategy in Technology-Based Companies Eisenhardt
SoE/STVP MS&E 275 Foundations for Large-Scale Entrepreneurship: Getting Big! Miura-Ko
SoE/STVP MS&E 477 Silicon Valley & the Government: Scaling Business-to-Govt Tech Fu, Weyant
GSB STRAMGT 355 Managing Growing Enterprises Peterson, Kelly, Dodson, Weaver, Ellis,
GSB STRAMGT 371 Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation Burgelman, Siegel
GSB STRAMGT 544 Scaling Excellence Rao, Narayen
GSB STRAMGT 555 Managing Growing Enterprises Dodson, Ellis
Social Impact/Social Ventures
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP MS&E 379 Social Data Analysis Eesley
SoHS URBANST 131 Very Impactful People - Social Innovation & the Social Entrepreneur Litvak
GSB STRAMGT 325 Starting and Growing a Social Venture Siegelman, Hattendorf
GSB STRAMGT 545 Taking Social Innovation to Scale Davis
GSB GSBGEN 305 Investing for Good Ewald, Patel
GSB GSBGEN 319 Strategic Philanthropy and Impact Investing Brest, Wolfson
GSB GSBGEN 332 Sustainable Energy: Business Opportunities and Public Policy Reichelstein, Reicher, Wood
GSB GSBGEN 335 Clean Energy Project Development and Finance Brown, Reicher, Rogers
GSB GSBGEN 511 Making Social Ventures Happen by Attracting Financial & Human Capital Burgoyne, Leu
GSB STRAMGT 368 Strategic Management of Nonprofit Orgs and Social Ventures Meehan
Finance and Funding
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP MS&E 140/240 Accounting for Managers and Entrepreneurs Stanton
SoE/STVP MS&E 276 Entrepreneurial Management and Finance Byers, Loy

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SoE/STVP MS&E 476 Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of VC: VC from Past to Present Weyant, Fu
SoHS SYMSYS 261 Applied Symbolic Systems in VC & Entrepreneurship Dar, Li
GSB ACCT 332 Mergers and Acquisitions Kasznik, Catz
GSB FINANCE 319 Private Equity Investing McDonald
GSB FINANCE 321 Investment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance McDonald
GSB FINANCE 373 Entrepreneurial Finance Bernstein, Siegel
GSB FINANCE 381 Private Equity in Frontier Markets: Creating a New Asset Class Meehan, Hartman
GSB FINANCE 385 Angel/VC Financing for Entrepreneurs and Investors Strebulaev, Gouw
GSB FINANCE 587 Private Equity - An Overview of the Industry Parker
GSB OB 581 Negotiations Neale, Halevy
GSB OB 591 Advanced Negotiations Neale, Halevy
GSB STRAMGT 330 Entrepreneurship & VC: Partnership for Growth Ziebelman, Glynn
GSB STRAMGT 354 Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Wendell, Nasr
SoL LAW 1040 Venture Capital I Rodkin, Siciliano
SoL LAW 401 Venture Capital II: Starting and Running a Venture-Backed Company Rodkin, Siciliano
Search Funds
School Course Course Title Instructors
GSB STRAMGT 543 Entrepreneurial Acquisition Dodson, Ellis, Risk
Legal and Intellectual Property
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP MS&E 278/ ME208 Patent Law and Strategy for Innovators and Entrepreneurs Schox, Prasad
SoE ME 265 Technology Licensing and Commercialization Hustein
SoL LAW 805E Policy Practicum: Empirical Study of Patent Troll Litigation Lemley, Miller
SoL LAW 914A/B/C Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic: Clinical Practice Malone, Pearlman
SoL LAW 1027 Securities Regulation: Raising Capital in U.S. Markets, from Startup Through IPO and Beyond Grundfest
GSB STRAMGT 532 Intellectual Property: Financial and Strategic Management Kasznik

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Legal Innovation
SoL LAW 4019 Legal Informatics Genesereth, Vogl
SoL LAW 6005 Technological, Economic & Business Forces Transforming Private Practice of Law Yoon
SoL LAW 6015 Innovations in the Delivery of Legal Services Hartman
SoL LAW 805S Policy Practicum: Prototyping Access to Justice Hagan
Marketing and Sales
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE ME 378 Tell, Make, Engage: Action Stories for Entrepreneuring Karanian
GSB MKTG 326 Customer Acquisition for New Ventures Lattin
GSB MKTG 373 Monetization - Choosing a Business Model Nair, Thygesen
GSB MKTG 535 Product Launch Levav, Siegelman
GSB STRAMGT 351 Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations Bowman, Stevens, Lattin, Levine
GSB STRAMGT 516 Fundamentals of Effective Selling Lattin, Rhein
International Entrepreneurship
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE/STVP MS&E 271 Global Entrepreneurial Marketing Kosnick, Smith
SoE EE 402A Topics in International Technology Management Dasher
SoE EE 402T Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries Dasher
SoL LAW 1005 Comparative Venture Capital - China Win
GSB GSBGEN 314/514 Creating High-Potential Ventures in Developing Economies Ciesinski, Rosen
GSB OIT 273 Value Chain Innovations in Developing Economies Lee
Product Design and Manufacturing
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE CS 210A/B Software Project Experience with Corporate Partners Borenstein, Liu
SoE CS 247 Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Bernstein
SoE CS 377M HCI Issues in Mixed and Augmented Reality White, McGrath

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SoE ME 115A Introduction to Human Values in Design Follmer, Patel, Schmutte
SoE ME 115B Product Design Methods Edson
SoE ME 203 Design and Manufacturing Beach, Strait
SoE ME 216A Advanced Product Design: Need finding Baum, Patnaik, Pokharel
SoE ME 216B Advanced Product Design: Implementation 1 Burnett, Davies, Follmer, Woolery
SoE ME 216C Advanced Product Design: Implementation 2 Burnett, Davies, Woolery, Douglas
SoE ME 218A Smart Product Design Fundamentals Carryer
SoE ME 218B Smart Product Design Applications Carryer
SoE ME 219 The Magic of Materials and Manufacturing Beach, Switky
SoE ME 297 Forecasting for Innovators: Technology, Tools, and Social Change Benjamin, Saffo
SoE ME 314 Good Products, Bad Products Beach
SoE ME 318 Computer-Aided Product Creation Milroy
SoE/d.school ENGR 280 From Play to Innovation Boyle, Brown, Thompson
Family Businesses
School Course Course Title Instructors
GSB GSBGEN 334 Family Business Linbeck
GSB STRAMGT 512 The Yin and Yang of Family Business Transitions Francis
Education
School Course Course Title Instructors
GSB GSBGEN 345 Disruptions in Education Urstein
GSB GSBGEN 377 Disruptions in Education Urstein
GSB STRAMGT 335 Entrepreneurial Approaches to Education Reform Lee
GSE/d.school EDUC 338 Innovations in Education Speicher, Wise
Food & Agriculture
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoES EARTH 282 Innovating Large Scale Sustainable Transformations Banerjee

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SoES EARTHSYS 289A/B FEED Lab: Food System Design & Innovation Dunn, Rothe, Mensing
GSB STRAMGT 306 Food, Health, and Nutrition Entrepreneurship Soule, Duswalt
Energy & Sustainability
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE CEE 174A Providing Safe Water for the Developing and Developed World Mitch
SoE CEE 175S/275S Environmental Entrepreneurship and Innovation Robertson, Shelander
SoE CEE 207A/EARTHSYS 103 Understanding Energy Ginnebaugh, Grubert, Knapp, Stasio
SoE CEE 277S Design for a Sustainable World Davis
SoES ENERGY102/EARTHSYS 102 Fundamentals of Renewable Power Gerritsen, Kovscek
SoES ENERGY 104 Sustainable Energy for 9 Billion Benson, Brandt
SoES ENERGY 216 Entrepreneurship in Energy House
GSB GSBGEN 336 Energy Markets and Policy Wolak, Thurber
GSB GSBGEN 532 Clean Energy Opportunities: Business Models and Innovations Reichelstein, Wood
Health Care
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE DESINST 255/EMED 255 Design for Health: Helping Patients Navigate the System Janka, Wagner
GSB GSBGEN 551 Innovation and Management in Health Care Chess
GSB STRAMGT 381 Leading Strategic Change in the Health Care Industry Burgelman, Pearl
GSE EDUC 335 / MED 235 Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems Sorcar
Automotive
SoE ME 302A Introduction to Automotive and Transportation Innovation Brennan
SoE ME 302B The Future of the Automobile- Driver Assistance and Automated Driving Becker
SoE ME 302C The Future of the Automobile - Mobility Entrepreneurship Brennan
GSB GSBGEN 569 The Open Road: Innovation in Cars, Driving, and Mobility Hennessey

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Other Industries
School Course Course Title Instructors
SoE AA 241X Design, Construction, and Testing of Autonomous Aircraft Kroo, Berk
GSB GSBGEN 306 Real Estate Investment Abbey, Mahowald
GSB GSBGEN 323 Media Entrepreneurship Grimes
GSB MKTG 534 The Travel and Airline Industry Nair, Gillani
On Campus Incubator/Accelerators
StartX On campus Accelerator
StartXMed Medical Accelerator
SPARK Medical Accelerator/Industry Partnership
Cardinal Ventures On campus Accelerator
Stanford Angels On campus angel investors
iFarm Office of Technology Licensing Incubator
Stanford Farm Food Systems Research Incubator
Stanford Entrepreneurship Centers
School of Engineering – Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)
Byers Center for BioDesign
Graduate School of Business:
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Center for Social Innovation (CSI)
Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED)
Medical School - Cross-disciplinary Healthcare Innovation Partnerships at Stanford (CHIPS)
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
Stanford Asia Technology Initiative
MediaX - Industry affiliate program of Stanford’s H-STAR Institute
TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
Codex – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
OTL - Office of Technology Licensing

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Stanford Student Groups
Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES)
Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)
Stanford Energy Club (SEC)
Stanford Social Entrepreneurial Students’ Association (SENSA)
Stanford Venture Capital Club (SVCC)
Stanford Women in Business (SWIB)
Stanford Law School Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club)
Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Extracurricular Opportunities
SoE/STVP: STVP Sparks - open to the entire Stanford community
SoE/STVP: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lectures - open to the public
BASES Programs
GSB/Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES): Stanford Venture Studio
GSB/CES: Startup Garage
GSB/CES: Summer Institute for General Management
GSB/CES: Stanford Ignite Part Time
GSB/CES: Stanford Ignite Full Time
TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy (TomKat): Innovation Transfer grants
TomKat: energyCatalyst Grants
TomKat: energyStartup Summer Internships
TomKat: TomKat/StartX Prize in Energy Innovation
Stanford Fellows/Scholars Programs (educational immersions)
SoE/STVP: Mayfield Fellows Program (no financial support)
SoE/STVP: DFJ Entrepreneurial Leaders Fellowship (no financial support)
SoE/STVP: Accel Innovation Scholars (no financial support)
SoE/SoM: Bio-X Fellowships
COMM: Knight journalism Fellowships

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SoE: ChEM-H Fellowships
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Fellowships
Humanities Center Fellowships
Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Stanford Fellowships (financial aid)
GSB: Research Fellows Program
GSB: USA MBA Fellowship
GSB: Charles P. Bonini Partnership for Diversity (P4D) Fellowship Program
Bill Lane Center for the American West Fellowships
SIGF: Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship
SGF: Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science & Engineering
DARE: Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence
Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship
SPICE: Student Projects for Intellectual Community Enhancement
EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Doctoral Fellowship Program
CCSRE: Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Graduate Fellowships