From Plan to Performance: Venture Implementation

Execution is where entrepreneurial vision becomes reality. This course shows you how to assemble the right people, align them around shared goals, and create the structures that help new ventures or internal initiatives move forward. Whether you’re preparing to hire, raise capital, form partnerships, or lead innovation inside an established organization, you’ll learn how to translate plans into meaningful progress.

Drawing on insights from Wharton faculty and proven entrepreneurial frameworks, you’ll learn how to structure ventures, build teams or partnerships, raise or deploy resources, and manage the relationships that enable a venture to grow.

Delivered fully online and self-paced, this course unfolds through several in-depth modules (each approximately four to six hours) that blend faculty video lessons, interactive workbook exercises, real-life case studies, and applied planning activities. As you progress, you’ll reflect on the relationships, networks, and resources you already have and identify the additional ones your venture will require.

You’ll map out the roles, skills, and capabilities needed on your founding or new-venture team; develop a resource plan that accounts for time, capital, talent, and external support; and draft a launch roadmap tailored to your context, goals, and preferred pathway. The course also guides you in preparing outreach materials or pitches for potential partners, collaborators, or investors, giving you a clear, actionable plan for how to move your venture forward with purpose and direction.

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.