Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

At the Greif Center, students develop entrepreneurial skills and build businesses through interdisciplinary, hands-on learning.
Photo by Josh Sanseri.

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 an established corporation (intrapreneurship). Students can develop an entrepreneurial mindset, 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 maintains an active alumni network.

Programs

Greif Center Minors:

• Entrepreneurship Minor  
• Social Entrepreneurship Minor  

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:

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MS)  
• Social Entrepreneurship (MS)  

Dual Degree Program:

• Master of Public Health/Master of Science, Social Entrepreneurship (MPH/MS)  

Graduate Certificate:

• Technology Commercialization Graduate Certificate  

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
Research Director: Violina Rindova, PhD

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; Noam Wasserman, PhD; Adlai Wertman, MBA; Helena Yli-Renko, ScD

Associate Professors of Clinical Entrepreneurship: Elissa Grossman, PhD; Thomas Knapp, MBA*; Steven Mednick, JD, MPA*; Pai-Ling Yin, PhD

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

Lecturer in Entrepreneurship: Albert Napoli, MBA

Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship: Susan Harmeling, PhD

Emeritus Professors: Kathleen R. Allen, PhD*; William H. Crookston, PhD*; Gene Miller, JD, MBA

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.

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