# Chicago Booth: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

Co-hosts a conference with Kellogg.

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Last checked: 2026-09-04

## At a Glance

- 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.
- Its own page: https://polsky.uchicago.edu/programs-events/entrepreneurship-through-acquisition/

## 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 It

- Brian O'Connor and Mark Agnew, who teach the course as adjuncts and practice in the field

## What It Publishes for Anyone

- 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.

## 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.

## Where to Read It

- ETA at the Polsky Center: https://polsky.uchicago.edu/programs-events/entrepreneurship-through-acquisition/
- The resources it shares: https://polsky.uchicago.edu/programs-events/entrepreneurship-through-acquisition/resources
- Conference agenda, with the case competition: https://www.etaconference.com/13etaconference/12056520

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