Millennial Entrepreneurial Propensity : Theoretical influence of B-School curricula

Millennials constitute the majority of collegiate business students and are approaching fifty percent of the workforce. Reportedly they have attitudes, expectations, and beliefs about work that differ from previous generational cohorts. Further, they appear to possess a diminished interest in entrepreneurship, potentially a harbinger of significant economic challenges for communities. Within the context of learning theory, this paper theorizes that some Collegiate Business School programs differ in their strength of support for entrepreneurial oriented millennials. An enhanced understanding of this influence may empower educators to integrate, where appropriate, program characteristics that reinforce latent entrepreneurial propensity, perhaps encouraging these individuals to continue rather than abandon their initial entrepreneurial predispositions. Suggestions are offered for future empirical testing of this proposal.