# Yale SOM: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

Four ETA courses and a library of cases.

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Last checked: 2026-09-04

## At a Glance

- Club: An ETA Club whose stated job is training students to search, acquire and then steward a business someone else built.
- Money: No funding that Yale SOM publishes.
- Conference: No conference that Yale SOM publishes.
- Its own page: https://groups.som.yale.edu/ETAC/

## The Classes

- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (MGT 671) taught by A. J. Wasserstein
- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (intensive elective) (MGT 416) taught by A. J. Wasserstein
- Leading Small and Medium Enterprises (MGT 674) taught by A. J. Wasserstein
- Rollups, Consolidations and Programmatic Acquisitions (MGT 677) taught by A. J. Wasserstein

## Who Teaches It

- A. J. Wasserstein

## What It Publishes for Anyone

- Training, workshops and resources the club runs for SOM students, with a separate door for Yale alumni in ETA.
- Over a hundred cases and notes on search funds and ETA, published by the school and readable without enrolling.

## What Else It Runs

- A standing group of advisers, investors, lenders and brokers the club keeps around itself.
- An alumni network of Yale searchers, which the club maintains separately from the student body.

## Where to Read It

- ETA Club: https://groups.som.yale.edu/ETAC/
- What the club runs: https://groups.som.yale.edu/etac/events/
- The courses and the writing: https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/aj-wasserstein

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