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The Acton Difference

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Learn from accomplished entrepreneurs.

You will learn from successful entrepreneurs who are gifted in the classroom, proven in the boardroom and care deeply about your success.

Our Harvard style discussions are so real they'll make you sweat.

Our one-year MBA in Entrepreneurship curriculum arms you with the latest tools, skills and theories necessary for building a thriving business. In class after class, you will be forced to make difficult decisions until you have the judgment and insights of a master entrepreneur.

Live a Life of Meaning

During our one-year program, we will put you in the shoes of a real entrepreneur in over 300 challenging case dilemmas. Whether you want to start a company, buy a business or work your way to the top, our acclaimed curriculum delivers the tools, skills and judgment you need to run a real business.

Find your "Calling"

We believe that you have a special "calling", a mission where your gifts will allow you to can change the world in a profound way. Once you have discovered your "calling", we will help you plan the next steps of your journey.

Revolutionizing the MBA

After the failures of Enron, Worldcom and the dot.coms, a few brave scholars are saying what many entrepreneurs already know–too many traditional MBA programs fail to deliver graduates who can run real businesses.

In the last five years, applications at traditional MBA programs have fallen over 70%, a clear sign that students are "voting with their feet."

Growing Problems with Traditional MBA Programs

Traditional MBA faculty see themselves, not their students, as the customers.

Too many business school professors are recruited, paid and promoted based on the articles they publish in academic journals. Written for other academics, these articles seldom contribute anything meaningful to real businesses.

Outdated courses teach students to regurgitate irrelevant theories.

Most business school curricula have changed little since the 1960s, with lectures on subjects such as financial accounting and statistics that delve deeply into the minutiae of an academic discipline. Consequently, many businesses find they must send MBAs through the same training programs they use for undergraduate recruits.

A traditional MBA can be an obstacle instead of an advantage.

MBA Graduates often become fodder for investment banks and consulting firms. After several years of employment these graduates are no happier or more fulfilled; they are simply working longer hours to repay student loans.

The Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship: Leading the Revolution

We believe that students are our customers.

Our entrepreneur-teachers have run successful companies. They know how poorly the traditional MBA model serves students and businesses.

Acton's curriculum forces students into the shoes of a real entrepreneur in over 300 case discussions.

Acton Students stand between sales and operations and make the tough calls about customers, pricing and products. On top of up year-long 90 hour work weeks, students step out of the classroom to run a real assembly line and sell products door-to-door.

In the Life of Meaning course, each student faces some of the most difficult moral dilemmas imaginable.

Students begin to discover a "calling", or personal mission, in business.

Our goal is to educate a new kind of MBA: one who is equipped to add value from day one, build successful businesses, raise a healthy family, and give back to his or her community.

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