Undergraduate
Entrepreneurship
Add value to your degree and control your destiny.
Entrepreneurship minor
Students will gain valuable knowledge and experience in entrepreneurship and build connections with the entrepreneurial community.
Using formal coursework to foster business acumen, students will be asked to create and/or run businesses or non-profit organizations, network with entrepreneurs, and cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset. The minor strongly emphasizes written and oral communication skills, teamwork, and personal initiative.
This minor is not available to students who are accounting, business management, or global management majors. See instead “Entrepreneurial Management.”
View minor course requirements
Why Simpson College for Entrepreneurship?
Build Connections To Make a Strong Career Network
Two distinct minors–one for business majors and one for non-business majors–will help you gain valuable, practical experience, whether you plan to start a business or need to nourish the kind of 21st-century skills today’s employers value highly.
Storm Initiative
There are two consistently relevant truths about our current economy. First, it has evolved and continues to change—and fast. Second, great ideas can come from anywhere and anyone.
Storm Initiative was designed to incorporate these exciting realities into the Simpson Experience. Our programs and curricular offerings enhance the valuable skills developed within a liberal arts education by combining them with broad business development concepts.
When you participate in a Storm Initiative experience, you’ll receive personalized attention and one-on-one access to experienced mentors and advisors who will help take your idea from concept to reality. We foster an inclusive environment where you can discover and hone your entrepreneurial spirit alongside real nonprofits and start-ups—or we’ll help you start your own.
Need assistance? Contact us!
- john.walker@simpson.edu
- 515-961-1892
- McNeill Hall 23
- Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Meet Our Faculty
Hayley Abourezk-Pinkstone
- Assistant Professor of Economics
Mark Green
- Professor of Management
Sandra Jennings-Hammond
- Adjunct Professor of Business Management
John Walker
- Associate Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship
- Division Head of Business Administration, Communications and Data Science
- Director of the Storm Initiative, CEO club advisor | Department Chair Business Administration and Economics
Jeff Wilson
- Adjunct Professor of Marketing & Economics
