Entrepreneurship

Addressing today’s challenges through creativity and innovation

Entrepreneurship translates an idea, new product, work process or invention into a good or service that creates value. It also focuses on the development of value-added propositions to address business challenges, including taking on financial risks in the pursuit of rewards.

At Harvey Mudd College, the fulfillment of the College’s mission would be incomplete without the ongoing development of entrepreneurship programs that invest in students’ brilliant and impactful ideas, products, processes and inventions.

Entrepreneurship Successes

“Entrepreneurship is a powerful way to translate scientific knowledge into solutions that improve lives. It’s an engine, and the journey it powers is meaningful and impactful to science.”

Benson Tsai, Zach Dodds and Josh Jones
Harvey mudd entrepreneurship faculty

Entrepreneurship Clinic Projects

Harvey Mudd Clinic Team Designing First Nonprofit Solar Panel Factory

In 2018, three projects focused on issues of social justice, funded in part by an educational leadership grant to President Maria Klawe from the Carnegie Corporation. Prof. Kash Gokli advised the Entrepreneurial Clinic Team.

Arctic Ice Project Deployment Method Investigation

Arctic Ice Project is a nonprofit seeking to preserve and restore the Arctic through safe and effective albedo modification techniques.

ScreenPortal: Improving Spatial Presence Across Single-User Screens

Team members built a prototype system that acts as a visual window into another environment.

Join the network

The Harvey Mudd College Entrepreneurial Network (HMCEN) is an informal social network designed to offer support resources for Harvey Mudd College students, alumni and faculty who are engaged in entrepreneurial startups. The HMCEN began as a traditional networking organization sponsoring regional meetings for alumni and students to promote startups and entrepreneurial projects.

Want to learn more?

To learn more or support this impactful program, email the team at entrepreneurship@hmc.edu

Funding Opportunities

The College seeks to provide opportunities to students from their first year through the fourth, so they can learn and grow and become entrepreneurs. Planned activities include seminars, workshops, events, summer fellowships and coursework that will provide education, practical experience and networking. To learn more about ways to support Harvey Mudd College entrepreneurship programs, please contact:

Jennifer Eccles
Vice President for Advancement
909.607.7069
jeccles@hmc.edu