School:Tufts University

University Innovation Fellow: Alexandra Halbeck

Alexandra Halbeck's Landscape Analysis (Presentation Summary)

Academic Programs

• Entrepreneurial Leadership program: five course minor for leadership and mentality of entrepreneurship

Student Initiatives

• Tufts Entrepreneurial Society- educate and foster sense of entrepreneurial community
• Tufts Engineering Clubs- build, invent, create, discuss, and imagine
• Tufts Venture Fund- connect businesspeople with skilled technical students
• Tufts Students- “The Real Entrepreneurs”
• Hoping to create more of an entrepreneurial culture moving forward

School Resources

• Experienced professors and advisory board of non-professors to advise student startup initiatives
• $100 K Business Plan and Social Entrepreneurship competitions- very popular, but lacks follow-up on startup progress after competition ends
• Many internship and fellowship opportunities available, but students don’t know about them