We are

not an ordinary

MBA

Ever feel like a

misfit?

So did many of the world’s leading entrepreneurs. When it comes to equipping world changing entrepreneurs like you, most programs miss the point. That’s why Acton teachers—all of them successful, working entrepreneurs—focus on what works in the real world, so you can start making your mark immediately. You’ll learn from seasoned entrepreneurs whose top priority is your growth, success, and transformation.

Here's how:

  • You’ll be guided by entrepreneurs with battle scars.
  • You will learn how to launch, build, and grow successful businesses and become an entrepreneurial leader who inspires others.
  • You’ll be treated not as a student, but as a valued customer.
  • Our teachers sign a contract agreeing they’ll step down if they don’t deliver on their promises to you.

We work with:

  • Bright, talented, and driven individuals.
  • Dedicated and successful entrepreneurs who are proven in the boardroom and outstanding in the classroom.
  • Real-world cases, which participants analyze, argue, and discuss throughout each 80-minute class session.
  • Experiential learning and simulations, including door-to-door sales, assembly line creation, and other immersive, hands-on learning.

We work with:

  • Listen, question, analyze, and persuade like a master entrepreneur.
  • Use the tools and judgment it takes to run a real business.
  • Identify their calling.
  • Run a successful business, raise a loving family, and contribute to their communities and the world in a powerful way.

The Curriculum

Break out of structure, routine, and theories—come to Acton for an experience that brings you into a community of exceptional leaders making an extraordinary impact on the world in less than half the time and a quarter of the cost of a traditional business school. 

Acton starts with four months of blended learning experiences where you spend 30-35 hours each week tackling real world and virtual challenges—including cash and valuation, operations, customers, and learning more about how to lead a valuable life—to prepare you for the rigors of in-person Socratic discussions.

On campus we’ll offer (an) 80-to-100-hour week(s) in the Entrepreneurial Journey and Life of Meaning-Next Great Adventure series, with an option over time to take up eight additional courses in subjects such as, Customers, Operations, and Cash and Valuation.

Individual
preparation

Acton Socratic entrepreneurship discussions are forced on real-world cases, each of which requires hours of individual concentration and preparation beforehand. If you are invited on campus, plan on five to eight hours of study to analyze each case in depth. Aby less and you’ll be left behind.

Study
groups

Study groups are like prototypes for class. You’ll arrive at study group each morning fully prepared to stand in the shoes of an entrepreneur facing a real dilemma. Your group will choose a peer to open the case, and for over an hour you’ll describe and defend your positions with them. If you haven’t prepared, it’ll show.

Socratic Discussions

Classes begin with a “cold call,” a challenging question the discussion leader poses to a single student to open the case. What comes next is 80 furious minutes of analysis, argument, and fevered persuasion.

Acton is not for the faint of heart. You’ll face challenges that require courage, grit, and a never-give-up attitude. You’ll be put to the test day and night. When you finish at Acton, you’ll have already faced the difficult questions real entrepreneurs face every day in life and business. And you will join an elite tribe—Acton entrepreneurs who see the invisible patterns that underline successful businesses and have mastered the habits that bring them to life.

3 Promises:

Learn how to learn, make money,
and live a life of meaning

Learn How to
Learn

Our virtual challenges, simulations, and case-based curriculum equip you with the ability to listen, think, and clearly communicate. Unlike narrow technical skills that rapidly become obsolete, “learning how to learn” will serve you for a lifetime.

Learn How to
Make Money

Our curriculum arms you with the tools, skills, and judgment necessary to build a thriving business. In every class and in every case, you will be forced to make enough decisions until you have earned the skills, judgment, and intuition of a master entrepreneur.

Learn How to
Live a Life of Meaning

Companies cannot survive unless they make money, but life is about more than just maximizing your cash flow. Throughout your journey at Acton, you’ll learn to juggle the demands of family, business, and community while working to discover your calling in business and in life.

Traditional MBAs

just don´t get it...

We know a traditional MBA just doesn’t work for an entrepreneur.

Our students care less about the title and more about the learning.

Our students care less about jargon and more about understanding the fundamentals.

Our students care less about having the right answer and more about asking the right questions.

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Learning the Entrepreneurial Journey from Entrepreneurs Who Have Lived it

Our teachers aren’t theory-driven academics. They’re successful entrepreneurs. Through trial, error, and perseverance, they have become successful and have harvested hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves, their investors, partners, and employees. And every day they serve you, they bring hard-won lessons from real-world trials, tribulations, and triumphs.

Applying to the tools learned in the life cycle of a business

Applying the Tools Learned to the Life Cycle of a Business

Our curriculum follows the life cycle of a business, from recognizing an opportunity, launching your venture, growing your company, raising money, and harvesting the fruits of your work. You learn the tools you need to run and grow a business in our tool courses, and then you put them into action immediately in real-life cases that mimic the real-life situations you will face in your entrepreneurial journey.

Stepping into the shoes of the entrepreneur

Stepping into the Shoes of the Entrepreneur

Our learning methodology combines cases with Socratic discussion to place you in the shoes of the entrepreneurs of the cases and create dialogues that simulate real life. Every day, you will be asked to make decisions just like the ones you will face in real life, so that you learn in the classroom the patterns needed to succeed in your entrepreneurial journey, so that when you start your own company, they will be second nature to you.

Preparing Talented Individuals for Extraordinary Lives

Founded in 2002, Acton’s mission is to prepare talented and dedicated individuals for extraordinary lives as principled entrepreneurs. From start to finish, Acton equips aspiring entrepreneurs for the practical realities of building, running, and, eventually, harvesting a business. From start to finish, the Acton approach to preparing tomorrow’s business leaders is strikingly different.

The most competitive business school in the country according to Princeton Review, Acton focuses not just on the practical skills required to run a business, but also on the leader behind the skills required to run a business, the entrepreneur—whose development is the single most important factor in building a thriving business.

Our immersive curriculum is a unique blend: experiential learning, Socratic dialogue, case studies, teacher-student covenants, and the most innovative education technology.

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YOUR AUDITION

Complete a series of challenges in your online audition, learning more about the program at each stage and proving you have what it takes to succeed in the rigorous Acton MBA program.

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VIRTUAL CHALLENGES AND RESIDENCE

Enroll in Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. You will be led by experienced business leaders through grueling 100-hour weeks of simulations, hands-on exercises, and Socratic discussions. In every challenge, you will stand in the shoes of a real entrepreneur, making difficult real-world decisions.

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MBA AND BEYOND

Get ready to change the world in a profound way by starting your own business. You’ve put in the hard work. You are a different person from when you started. You know your next steps and what you need to do to create a life of meaning and change the world.

So . . . You Want to Be an

Entrepreneur?

Discover what it takes to successfully start a business and grow it to the point of harvest in our exclusive Acton article. Download here.

    Why Acton?

    More than Just the

    Bottom Line

    Character is Destiny

    We believe that clear thinking leads to good decisions, that good decisions lead to the right habits, that the right habits lead to character, and that character becomes destiny.

    Called to Change the World

    We believe that each Acton scholar will change the world in a profound way.

    Doing is Learning.

    We believe in learning by doing. Our entrepreneur-teachers use the Socratic method to inspire you to develop the habits, judgment, and character of a master entrepreneur.

    Clarity and Competition

    We believe that clear contracts and a competitive grading system encourage the perspective, discipline, and accountability required to run a successful business.

    Individual Responsibility

    We believe in economic, political, and religious liberty. We are dedicated to equipping entrepreneurs who believe in individual responsibility and are willing to invest in a healthy civil society.