For ETA Clubs & Programs

Materials

How Groups Use It

• ✓Run the 90-Day Syllabus as a semester arc: one phase per month, with the tools as homework and the guides as case discussions.
• ✓Assign two students the same live listing and have both run the Deal Screener and a Sources & Uses, then defend their differences.
• ✓Use an industry guide as the reading before a guest speaker from that industry; the licensing and pricing sections generate the questions.
• ✓Have every member build a Buyer Profile in week one and revise it after the quiz and the affordability math; the diffs are the learning.

What the Schools Already Run

Business schools publish their own ETA courses, clubs, conferences, and fellowships, and for money aimed at STUDENTS the order holds: a fellowship arrives after a course and a club, never before them. The rest varies more than it looks. At some schools a speaker series started it and a club formed around it; at others the course came first, out of a finance or entrepreneurship department, with no student group beside it at all. And one school skips the teaching entirely, because its money is not a fellowship: Rice puts alumni equity and subordinated debt behind a graduate who has already found a business, to cover what a lender requires before it will lend. MBA ETA Programs sets out what each one offers, from its own pages, which is a useful precedent to copy from if you are starting a group.

Teaching With This Material

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