Innovative, Impactful Education

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Where Creativity Meets Opportunity

By fostering innovation and fueling entrepreneurship, we help leaders solve today’s challenges and create tomorrow’s reality. At Goizueta, entrepreneurship and innovation are more than class offerings…we take a multi-faceted approach to engage students and budding business owners alike through cultivation and partnership to ensure ideas are nurtured and companies thrive.

Voices of Goizueta

    Turning Problems Into Possibilities

    Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

    We empower entrepreneurs, innovators, and problem-solvers in a changing world. At The Roberto C. Goizueta Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, we foster entrepreneurship and innovation born of critical inquiry, developed to serve fundamental societal needs, executed according to sound business principles, and conceptualized in ways that open possibilities and spark imagination.
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    Innovation for All

    The Hatchery

    The Hatchery supports student innovators and entrepreneurs from all Emory schools, and covers all stages of innovation from inspiration and learning to projects and startups. Together, let’s innovate more inclusive, equitable, and progressive solutions to everything.
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    Degrees of Possibility

    With an impressive suite of degree and non-degree programs tailored to pique student interests and meet their needs for professional and personal growth, Goizueta Business School delivers academic offerings with a profoundly personal and highly transformational experience.
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    An Innovation Ecosystem

    • Active Research

      Goizueta faculty explore the critical questions businesses must ask to solve complex business problems and better our communities by serving fundamental societal needs.
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      Facilities & Incubation

      We offer casual innovation spaces for idea sharing as well as makerspace stations, a light-touch prototyping station, collaboration room, and emerging technologies lab across campus.
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      Entrepreneurship Fellows Program

      The Entrepreneurship Fellows Program recognizes students who exhibit an entrepreneurial mindset AND demonstrate commitment to the Goizueta entrepreneurship initiative.
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      Pitching & Competition

      From a Shark Tank style Pitch the Professors program to the annual Entrepreneurship Summit, students have the opportunity to pitch their ideas, receive feedback, and build community.
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      Acceleration

      The Emory Startup Launch accelerator guides early-stage founders to help them rapidly test ideas with customers and build a business model to move the startup forward.
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      Early-Stage Investing

      RAISE Forum is creating local funding for in-revenue companies that need an investment. The Siggie Awards honors the early-stage investors helping to grow Atlanta’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

      • Entrepreneurship-focused Courses Offered

      • Student Startups At “Pitch the Professors”

      • Entrepreneurs in Residence

        Goizueta Expertise

        • Why Now Is a Good Time to Start a Business

          Tips on how to position your startup for success, why there’s so much capital available and where to get funding.
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        • The Effects of Accelerators on Entrepreneurs

          A look at how accelerators that target specific impact areas, marginalized regions, sectors and entrepreneurs can help companies
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        • HackATL: Fueling students’ business ingenuity

          One of the largest hackathons in Atlanta, HackATL challenges students to build a business in 48 hours.
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        Roberto C. Goizueta

        Former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company

        "To succeed, you have to disturb the present."
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