Business starts when classes begin.

First-Year Business Experience

Students learn foundational business principles and analyze publicly traded companies inside collaborative team environments. Then the fun begins as students work with their teams in a competitive design sprint aimed at solving a sustainable issue within their researched businesses.

Real Business Experience

The Real Business Experience is an incubator class that is focused on learning by doing. Students develop entrepreneurial thinking as they practice solving customer problems utilizing the business model canvas, ideating, innovating, creating, and running an actual business. Every team donates 10% of their profits to a local charity and then the team members share the rest of the profits.

MJ Student-Run Insurance Group

Hands-on experience in the Captive Insurance Company means taking on real risks and real underwriting, while also gaining insight into starting and running a business. From creating and updating insurance financial reports to underwriting fine arts, our first phase of coverage offerings will provide an extensive baseline from which students can learn.

The Student-Managed Investment Fund

Finance students work in teams with a professional money manager/advisor and manage $3 million in actual endowment funds. Since the fund’s inception, students have beaten their benchmarks each year.

Launch Hope

Launch Hope Foundation consists of a diverse group of entrepreneurs who provide personalized programming to marginalized groups and communities. Their mission is to empower lives and individuals through the power of entrepreneurship.

Social Entrepreneurship

Participating in the Social Entrepreneurship course provides students with the opportunity to learn about the entrepreneurial skills that are used to develop innovative approaches to problems in society. Students will be able to apply these skills to both non-profit and profit firms through this course and apply these concepts within the local community.

Business Consulting

The Butler Business Consulting Group is a full service, professionally led management consulting firm that operates inside the Lacy School of Business. The group offers consulting services to companies, provides research, and makes investments.

Business Accelerator

The Butler Accelerator for Education & Workforce Innovation is a program that supports startups by providing investment opportunities, networking, mentorship, and potential customer introductions. This program will help any startup that is focused on evolving education institutions and learning organizations.

Innovation Lab

Ready to see your ideas come to life? The Innovation Lab offers students a mobile makers studio to help brainstorm, write, and develop their ideas. This opportunity is offered to all majors who are interested in having 1-1 coaching and peer mentors, testing experiences, and funding opportunities to help move their inventions forward.