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On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in late April, senior Tatiana Perez ’25 entered a large classroom alongside her teammates. She stood ready to present industry and company analyses and respond to questions from a panel of seasoned professionals. Perez had presented with a team like this before — about three and a half years earlier when her academic journey at the business school was just beginning; however, this time was different. This time, she would exude…

When Susquehanna’s Sigmund Weis School of Business created the entrepreneurship & corporate innovation major, faculty wanted to include a course that would usher students from the theory of entrepreneurship to the practice of it — while providing them with a safety net. In Entrepreneurial Experience, the capstone course for the major, students conceptualize and develop a start-up organization and everything that goes with that process — trying, failing, pivoting and repeating — with the goal of…