Chicago Booth

What It Amounts To

Runs the largest gathering in the space with Kellogg, and points its students there.

At a Glance

Courses: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Club: Two groups: the ETA Group for full-time students and an ETA Club for the evening and weekend programmes.
Money: ETA Fellows Program: mentorship and programming rather than a cash award.
Conference: The Booth-Kellogg ETA Conference, co-hosted with Kellogg, which the Polsky Center calls the largest ETA conference in the country at over 900 attendees.

Also Runs

A case competition runs inside the conference, set on a real search-fund dilemma.

Other Schools

Stanford GSB Harvard Business School Kellogg Wharton Dartmouth Tuck MIT Sloan WashU Olin Duke Fuqua Columbia Business School NYU Stern Yale SOM

A school gives you the room and the practice, not the acquisition. The Intern & Job Board carries the programmes that pay a salary to search, and Investor Match the firms that fund one.