Entrepreneurial Individuals Can Be Made
ESA believes that entrepreneurial individuals and leaders can be formed. The school’s unique and non-traditional combination of academic, co-curricular, and extra-curricular programs are all geared precisely towards that. ESA provides students various opportunities to not only learn and grow but also to push them to go beyond themselves in terms of knowledge, attitudes, values, and skills.

Igniting the Entrepreneurial Flame
An important pillar of the ESA learning experience is the Entrepreneurial Formation Program. The activities that constitute the program are designed to unleash and strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit—self-knowledge, personal and interpersonal leadership, intelligent risk-taking, courage, self-confidence, creativity, perseverance, and determination – that are the hallmarks of successful individuals, whether they start and run their own businesses or join a large multinational organization. This entrepreneurial spirit lies within individuals – ESA programs simply ignite it and fan its flames.

Learning by Doing
ESA believes that learning in the classroom is insufficient. To truly learn anything, one must actually try doing it.

Whether marketing or management concepts, intelligent risk-taking, or personal leadership, ESA students are placed in environments that require them to apply what they study.

An integral aspect of the entrepreneurial education of all ESA students is to be able to learn more about themselves. They are exposed to various activities and experiences that will facilitate acquiring more self-knowledge which is ultimately allows for better self-improvement.
 

ESA employs non-traditional out-of-the -classroom learning tools to complement lectures. Such exercises highlight the crucial entrepreneurial skills, attitudes, and values.

The Mentoring Program
Curricular and co-curricular learning experiences of students are evaluated with the help of mentors to maximize the learning from exercises and with the aim of improving.
 

All freshmen are assigned mentors to guide them in their initial transition. In their upper years, students are assigned business mentors to advise them on ventures and projects 

Entrepreneurs for Society
ESA aims to create “Entrepreneurs for Society”. As such, ESA inculcates in its students that they should pursue the “triple bottom line”—profits, people, and planet. As part of their EXL (Experiential Learning) series, all students are also given the opportunity to practice social responsibility and actually make a positive impact on the lives of the underprivileged and on the natural environment.

In their Business Ethics class, students are required to set up a temporary "business project" and expose it to the discipline and rigors of a competitive market while focusing on operating it with high ethical standards in mind. Students are evaluated based on their project's Triple Bottom Line performance. Proceeds are donated to charitable institutions.