Wendy Adams
Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum
UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition
Global Social Venture Competition
The Intel + Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge
Venture Capital Investment Competition
Entrepreneurs Association
History
The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation was founded in 1991 through a gift from W. Howard Lester, Chairman of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., and is the primary focus for the study and promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation in management and new enterprise development at UC Berkeley.
The Lester Center
- fosters teaching of successful entrepreneurship and innovation,
- encourages Berkeley students in the creation of new businesses,
- creates and disseminates knowledge on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance to the business and university communities,
- facilitates interaction between the entrepreneurial community and the university.
The center's constituency beyond the university consists of the founders, owners, and managers of innovative and high-growth companies, their investors and advisers, and young entrepreneurs. Within the university, it is an interdisciplinary, campuswide research center with public programs designed to be a resource to the campus and beyond. Over the years, students and faculty, especially those in business, engineering, computer science, law, and the biosciences, have led in developing the center's programs.
Faculty
MBA Faculty and Courses Taught
- Wendy Adams : Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology
- John Altman : Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Steve Blank : Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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David Charron
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Entrepreneurship Workshop for Start-Ups
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Business Model Innovation for New Ventures
- Henry Chesbrough : Managing Innovation & Change
- Mark Coopersmith : Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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John Danner
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Entrepreneurship Workshop for Start-Ups
- Business Model Inn
