London Business School
What It Amounts To
The elective is taught by the man who raised the first search fund outside North America.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 1 named course, below.
- Club
- The Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club, which equips students pursuing ETA and states its aim of fostering the London and European ETA ecosystem.
- Money
- Nothing published.
- Conference
- The club's annual student-led ETA conference, in its seventh edition.
The Classes
- Entrepreneurship Through AcquisitionTaught by Simon Webster, who raised the first search fund outside North America and grew his acquisition from 3.5 to 30 million pounds.
Who teaches and leads it
- Simon Webster, LBS alumnus and the fifth person worldwide to raise a search fund
What Else It Runs
- The Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital, which houses the ETA teaching; the elective sits in the MBA's Entrepreneurial Management concentration and is open to EMBA and Sloan students.
Open to readers outside the school
- Two published search-fund cases (2023): Nova Ventures by Luisa Alemany and Florin Vasvari, and Insearch Ltd by Simon Webster, both through LBS Publishing.
- Simon Webster's essay on becoming a CEO in your early thirties, on the institute's site.
Where to Look
Other Schools
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.