This proposal requests funding from the Board of Directors to complete the Berger Entrepreneurship program at the University of Arizona. The 23-month program costs $49,800 and teaches managerial skills, business expertise, and networking opportunities that provide competitive advantages. Completing the program, which is focused on entrepreneurship, would help develop entrepreneurial abilities to innovate and solve organizational problems.

1. Proposal for Funding
Berger entrepreneurship program
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Executive Summary:
This proposal looks at the University of Arizona's Berger Entrepreneurship program, and
how it can benefit me as an individual to grow and contribute towards the growth and
betterment of this organization. “The Berger Entrepreneurship Program at The University of
Arizona's Eller College of Business and Public Administration has been named the 2002
Model Program in Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education by the United States
Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).” (Warren-Pederson, 2002).
This report requests the Board of Directors for appropriate funding to be provided so that I
may successfully complete the program.
The Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona is universally perceived for
spearheading exploration, creative educational program, and recognized workforce,
magnificence in management data frameworks, business, and social obligation. U.s. News &
World Report positions the Eller undergraduate program #11 among open business schools
and two of its programs are among the main 20 — Entrepreneurship and MIS. U.s. News &
World Report positions the Eller MBA Full-Time program #48 in the U.s. The College is
among the pioneers of business schools creating stipend stores for examination.
Notwithstanding a Full-Time MBA program, the Eller College offers the 25th positioned
Evening MBA program, the Eller Executive MBA and the Online MBA. The Eller College of
Management backings more than 5,800 undergraduate and 750 graduate understudies on the
UA facilities in excellent Tucson, Arizona, and a satellite grounds in Phoenix. Some of the
advantages of pursuing the program are:
Managerial Skills: Knowledge granted in MBA project reaches out in creating managerial
abilities for competitors. These aptitudes give the essentials to managing constant
circumstances relating to administration and determination of issues. You are prepared in

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establishing a managerial part as well as encouraged in getting a handle on center obligations
of your association.
Creating business aptitude: MBA gives an added point of interest to understudies from non-
business foundations. By procuring a MBA degree, you expand your reasonable learning in
the field of business organization. The vast majority of the business schools perceive MBA
both as an expert and scholarly degree. Considerably in the wake of finishing your MBA, you
can proceed with your doctorate in whatever other order.
Competitive Advantage: A skilled MBA system plans competitors as very qualified pioneers.
The particular abilities and initiative qualities taught in MBA projects, gives you favourable
element over others. A large portion of the main business associations want to contract
MBAs for higher administration positions.
Business Connections and Networking: Social systems administration amid the MBA
scholarly term helps in creating business contacts and referrals. Over the long haul, you can
benefit these contacts in enhancing your business position in the business sector.
Moreover, the University of Arizona program is based in entrepreneurship, which is an added
advantage as it will including developing entrepreneurial skills in me, which can help me
innovate under difficult situations and solve the organizations day to day problems more
effectively. The Eller College of Management has attempted to enrol a skilled collection of
faculty, executives, and staff devoted to promoting the College's vision for magnificence in
initiative instruction. The College's driving specialists scrutinize an expansive range of
subjects including coordinated effort, choice making, e-business, business morals, work
issues, levy, and buyer behaviour among numerous others.

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The Eller MBA experience is centered around advancement, application, and correspondence
— a framework that gives graduates what they have to successfully lead in today's quickly
changing worldwide commercial center. The Eller College encourages a society of
advancement — not simply in light of the fact that it is home to the top-positioned Mcguire
Center for Entrepreneurship — but since its faculty parts are centered around diversion
evolving exploration. The most recent examination can take up to ten years to show up in
course books, yet Eller faculty bring it to the classroom quickly. That classroom information
springs up for understudies through application — true, constant tasks that test suspicions and
power you to wind up open to using sound judgment focused around solid examination when
there is no privilege answer. Counselling tasks, case rivalries, temporary positions, venture
management, and worldwide business excursions are simply a couple of samples of ways that
Eller MBAs apply their coursework. As indicated by a National Association of Colleges and
Employers study, the most essential characteristic bosses look for in a candidate is relational
abilities. The Eller College's thorough business correspondence system challenges
understudies to create their delicate aptitudes so they leave the project with an aggressive
edge in the commercial
It is a 23 month long program, and the total cost for which is $49,800, payable in various
instalments through the duration of the program, and includes all relevant study materials
such as books. It also includes the lodging costs for the duration of the program at the
university hostel, as well as weekend dinners. In addition to the above-mentioned amount,
there is an additional $100 application fee as well as a $500 enrolment fee, which is not
refundable.
The program is evaluated on the basis of classroom teachings and regular examinations on
the various subjects taught during the course of the program.

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References:
Warren-Pederson, L. (2002, February 19). Press Release. Retrieved January 05, 2015, from
Eller College; University of Arizona:
http://www.eller.arizona.edu/news/2002/02/19_Entrepreneurship_Program_named_natio
nal_model_program.asp

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