Chicago Booth
What Chicago Booth Amounts To
Co-hosts a conference with Kellogg.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 1 named course, below.
- Club
- Two groups: the ETA Group for full-time students and an ETA Club for part-time students.
- Money
- ETA Fellows Program, which runs from October into May, under the two faculty advisers, with mentorship, programming and a dedicated research and travel budget whose amount is not published.
- Conference
- The Booth-Kellogg ETA Conference, held each autumn and co-hosted with Kellogg, which Booth's own pages call the country's largest ETA conference.
The Classes
- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (34302)Taught by Mark Agnew and Brian O'Connor teach it as adjuncts; the catalog lists seven instructors in one block across the year.
Who teaches and leads it
- Brian O'Connor and Mark Agnew, who teach the course as adjuncts and practice in the field
What Else It Runs
- The ETA case competition inside the conference, in its seventh year on the 2026 agenda and run by Entrepreneurship at Kellogg with Legacy41 Partners.
- An ETA Discovery Cohort for students working out whether the path is theirs, separate from the Fellows Program.
- Visiting ETA Advisors, Booth graduates now operating, investing or teaching in search, at least two of them offered each academic quarter on a rotating basis, beside an ETA Advisory Committee.
- A private equity program funds the whole of it, which is why the course, conference and workshops sit together.
Open to readers outside the school
- An ETA resources page whose workshop descriptions are public and whose recordings sit behind a student login, pointing at the Stanford primer and a practitioner blog on fundraising, searching and operating.
- Workshops across legal work, self-funded search, diligence, structures and leadership, with the recordings for students and alumni only.
- A podcast and a newsletter, both open to anyone rather than to enrolled students.
Where to Look
Other Schools
The Intern & Job Board carries the programs that pay a salary to search, and Investors the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the materials for ETA clubs.