Leveraging On-Campus Access To Your Mba Program

people:

searchers

investors

intermediaries

lenders

lawyers

accountants

consultants

insurance

tasks:

getting started

see job postings

share your PPM

see my deals

read interviews

browse posts:

industry news

operating

getting funded

case studies

north america

self funded

acquisitions

interview

traditional

australia

tip for the week

accounting and legal

deal sourcing

single sponsor

women in search

asia

bestof

europe

latin america

getting started

africa

networking

corona

deal making

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searcher The University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

LEVERAGING ON-CAMPUS ACCESS TO YOUR MBA PROGRAM

I have the good fortune of living in the same town as my MBA school campus. I'm in the very early stages of learning about search funds and exploring the best way to go about getting started. I've scheduled a Q&A session with a faculty from the school's entrepreneurial center, but beyond this I'm looking for any advice on leveraging in-person access to an MBA program as an alum that I may not be considering.

In my mind, this should be a great asset, especially in the early stages of getting a fund started, and unfortunately I had no awareness of search funds while I was a student, so I've never tapped this source's potential for aid. 

Thank you for any suggestions!

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searcher INSEAD Universidade de Brasília - 02/28/2019

Hi Peter. There are many specialists in the industry that are willing to share knowledge by delivering talks and MBA schools are a great environment to promote those discussions. I believe you can approach faculty and/or existing student clubs in your MBA and help them set up those events locally

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searcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management Dartmouth College - 03/01/2019

- investors / accelerators tend to flock to b-school campuses
- easier access to a search partner and/or interns, if desired
- attending on-campus lectures / conferences
- using library and other spaces to work, especially if they offer database / resource access to alums

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searcher The University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - 03/01/2019

Hi Peter. I am a Ross alum based in Ann Arbor and would be happy to chat about search funds. You can reach me at [redacted]

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searcher University of Texas at Austin Texas Tech University - 03/02/2019

I live next to my University as well, and the best tools are the databases.
I use the databases primarily for:
- Company lists (searching all private companies by size, industry, etc..)
- Industry reports and trends
- Market Research on customers, segments, and sizes

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Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business Texas A&M University - 09/07/2020

Joshua, does your school provide you with database access as an alum? If so, that’s fantastic. I haven’t seen that mine will continue to do so post-grad.

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searcher London Business School United States Naval Academy Johns Hopkins University - 09/08/2020

I used to live in the same city as my MBA programme. It wasn't until I began looking into search funds that I discovered how many resources there were on campus! I found that the greatest assets were professors who either worked with searchers/investors, or had previously worked with searchers/investors. They vastly opened my network to alums that I never even knew were working on their own search or invested in searchfunds. That in itself opened the door to a ton of valuable information about the best way to start searching and questions I need answer for before I began my search in earnest.

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searcher The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business - 09/08/2020

+1 for professors - immense source of advice & connections

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