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Extracted Content: Given the limited research on MBA entrepreneurship education, this study examined three selective MBA programs to understand how faculty, administrators, and students conceive of entrepreneurship learning. What emerges from this qualitative study are distinct epistemic stances toward entrepreneurship education suggesting that some business schools have deviated from a managerial mindset. The study also presents a grounded theory of entrepreneurial ownership, which describes four challenges that student founders confront in pursuing new opportunities. The study concludes with an examination of the implications of each epistemic stance against these student challenges—finding that epistemic stances impact student learning. Finally, the existence of distinct epistemic stances provides evidence that business schools may be approaching learning from more diverse perspectives than previously assumed.