Case Western Weatherhead
What It Amounts To
Counts 115 acquisitions by its community since 1992, and opens the first ETA concentration in an MBA.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 3 named courses, below.
- Club
- An ETA student club, which the school calls one of its fastest-growing student organisations.
- Money
- Nothing published.
- Conference
- The Osborne ETA Symposium each autumn, run with a nonprofit acquisition accelerator.
The Classes
- ETA Fundamentals: The Acquisition Entrepreneur Lifecycle (DESN 421)Taught by Reid Tileston.
- ETA Investor-Backed Search and Small Business Leadership (DESN 420)Taught by GJ King and Jake Stoller.
- ETA Funding and Credibility (DESN 419)Taught by Scot Lowry.
Who teaches and leads it
- Richard Osborne, who taught buying a business as a path to entrepreneurship here in the 1970s
- Reid Tileston, GJ King, Jake Stoller and Scot Lowry, who teach the three certificate courses
What Else It Runs
- A three-course ETA certificate over two semesters, open to people not enrolled in a degree.
- The first ETA concentration inside an MBA, which the school says starts in Fall 2026.
- Promise Partners, the nonprofit acquisition accelerator it runs the symposium with.
Open to readers outside the school
- A symposium and three-day intensives that owners, operators and advisers can attend without enrolling.
Where to Look
Other Schools
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The Intern & Job Board carries the programmes that pay a salary to search, and Investor Match the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the club kit.