Becoming Entrepreneurial: Purpose, Paths, and Inspiration

Entrepreneurship doesn’t start with a business plan — it starts with how you see yourself and the many ways you can create value. This course helps you build that foundation by expanding your definition of entrepreneurship beyond startups and showing you the diverse paths real people take to make an impact.

Guided by Professor Lori Rosenkopf and grounded in her book, Unstoppable Entrepreneurs, you’ll explore the Seven Pathways to Entrepreneurship, a practical framework that highlights routes such as intrapreneurship, acquisition, social innovation, technology commercialization, and bootstrapping. You’ll connect these pathways to your own skills, values, and experiences, clarifying where you fit in the entrepreneurial landscape and what “success” looks like for you. By the end of the course, you’ll understand how entrepreneurs think and act under uncertainty, and you’ll have a concrete, personally meaningful plan for your next entrepreneurial step.

Delivered fully online and self-paced, this course features four in-depth modules (approximately four to six hours each). You’ll move through a blend of video lectures, guided workbook reflections, applied activities, and optional challenge exercises that help you immediately connect concepts to your own goals, career, or venture.

Rather than just taking in information, you’ll actively:

By the end, you won’t just understand entrepreneurship differently — you’ll have language, tools, and next steps you can use right away.

This course is designed for learners who want clarity, confidence, and direction in their entrepreneurial journey, including:

To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.