Many graduate students, in fields from science to law, have smart ideas that could become successful ventures—but business skills aren't part of their usual course of study. Many will go on to work in corporate settings without formal business training.

The new Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship (SIE) is an intensive four-week business program offered by the GSB for Stanford grad students in non-business fields. The program combines team projects and workshops with guest speakers and visits to Silicon Valley companies ranging from start-ups to large firms, from high-tech to retail.

SIE is one of several programs within the new Stanford Graduate Summer Institute, which lets students explore subjects outside their primary fields of study, alongside peers from different departments throughout the university.

So far, offerings include Responding to Pandemics, Adventures in Design Thinking, Music and Human Behavior, Managing Groups and Teams, and Global Warming.

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