Tepper Awards Entrepreneurial Fellowships to Y1 Students

The Tepper School of Business has selected 12 first-year MBA students as the recipients of the School's first Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellowships.

The students will work in paid summer internships at entrepreneurial firms this year while receiving close mentorship from Tepper faculty and the company's CEO or another top executive. Next year, the students will complete a team-based project in another entrepreneurial company during their final semester of classes. These internships will take place across the U.S., but all of the students will begin the fellowship program in Silicon Valley.

The James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program was established with a gift from Tepper alumnus James R. Swartz, co-founder of the Palo Alto-based venture capital firm Accell Partners. Swartz said that the Fellowship Program was designed to give outstanding students direct exposure to the entrepreneurial and venture capital sectors.

Source: "CMU Creates Fellowship with Ties to Silicon Valley" - Pittsburgh Business Times, May 18, 2006