Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

The Greif Center offers a wide range of courses in entrepreneurship designed for students who want to start or own a high-growth business, join an emerging business or participate in an entrepreneurial venture in a mature corporation (intrapreneurship). Students can develop an entrepreneurial mindset, gain confidence that they can be successful entrepreneurs, learn about the entrepreneurial process and enhance their conceptual and practical skills to pursue new business opportunities. Wide exposure is given to all types of entrepreneurs and industries. The highly experiential courses span the entrepreneurial process from opportunity discovery to venture initiation, growth and exit, and are designed to teach relevant frameworks and theory as well as to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and skills through hands-on application. The Greif Center also offers co-curricular programs such as venture competitions, speaker events and a new venture incubator, and it actively provides contact with and support for its alumni.

Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall, 5th Floor
Tel: (213) 740-0641
Fax: (213) 740-2976
Email: entrepreneur@marshall.usc.edu
marshall.usc.edu/entrepreneur
Director: Helena Yli-Renko, ScD
Executive Director: David Belasco, JD

Faculty

Orfalea Director’s Chair in Entrepreneurship: Helena Yli-Renko, ScD

David C. Bohnett Chair in Social Entrepreneurship: Adlai Wertman, MBA

Captain Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship: Violina Rindova, PhD

Professors of Clinical Entrepreneurship: Jill R. Kickul, PhD; Gene Miller, JD, MBA; Noam Wasserman, PhD; Adlai Wertman, MBA

Associate Professors of Clinical Entrepreneurship: Elissa Grossman, PhD; Steven Mednick, JD, MPA*; Pai-Ling Yin, PhD; Helena Yli-Renko, ScD

Assistant Professors of Clinical Entrepreneurship: Greg Autry, PhD; Patrick Henry, MBA*; Thomas Knapp, MBA*; Justin Miller, PhD

Lecturers in Entrepreneurship: Albert Napoli, MBA

Emeritus Professors: Kathleen R. Allen, PhD*; William H. Crookston, PhD*

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.

Programs

Greif Center Minors:

Interdisciplinary Minors:

Game Entrepreneurism Minor (with the School of Cinematic Arts)
Innovation: The Digital Entrepreneur Minor (with the Viterbi School of Engineering)
Media Economics and Entrepreneurship Minor (with the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism)
Performance Science Minor (with the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences)
Technology Commercialization Minor (with the Viterbi School of Engineering)

Master’s Degrees:

Graduate Certificate:

Technology Commercialization Graduate Certificate

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