The ProgramA new 7-day cohort of mentorship and training.
The 10-day cohort reached capacity. Demand was high, so we added a second 7-day cohort across Boston and Providence, running November 20 to 26, 2026. Applications for the 7-day cohort are open. We seek business students and early-stage entrepreneurs around the world who want to scale and optimize their business models.
Sessions at three of the most selective
business schools in the country.
Participants visit and attend admissions sessions at each school, where admissions staff walk through the application process, what the committees look for, and how to position a profile. The three sessions are a central part of the program schedule.
Harvard Business School
Admissions session covering the MBA application, essays, and interview process.
MIT Sloan School of Management
Admissions session on the MBA and specialized master's programs and selection criteria.
Brown Starr Program in Business
Admissions session on the Brown Starr Program in Business and what applicants should prepare.
The Business Innovator 5 Step Plan to Success
These five steps are a set of tools participants apply directly to their own business ventures throughout the program.
Problem Diagnosis
Stops a founder from building a solution to the wrong problem. Each team takes on a frustration people actually face, interviews the people affected, finds the gap, and arrives at a problem statement worth solving.
Financial Literacy
Lets a founder read their own numbers and price their product correctly. Founders learn to model financial statements and cash flow, and how to price products and services.
Applied Technology
Gives a founder the tools to build and run a business online. Founders use AI for research, financial modeling, copywriting, and prototyping, and improve their websites and products with the same tools.
Structured Business Execution
Turns a plan into something that actually ships on schedule. Founders learn to break a venture into owned tasks, sequence dependencies, and hold a timeline under pressure.
Professional Consulting
Teaches a founder to walk into someone else's business and identify what's wrong with it. Teams diagnose the gap, build the specific fix, and hand the finished work to the owner.
Two cities, three programs,
two global economies.
Participants move between Cambridge and Providence, attending Ivy League admissions sessions at Harvard Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the Brown Starr Program in Business. Both cities sit at the center of major regional economies with global reach.
Boston
Massachusetts
The program is based in Cambridge, across the river from downtown Boston. Cambridge and Boston together form one of the densest concentrations of universities, research labs, and venture capital in the world.
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Greater Boston's metropolitan economy exceeds $600 billion in annual output, placing it among the largest regional economies in the United States.
- Kendall Square in Cambridge holds the highest concentration of biotechnology firms in the world, with Moderna, Pfizer, Sanofi, Vertex, and Biogen operating major facilities in a few square blocks.
- The region is a global financial center. State Street, Fidelity Investments, and MFS Investment Management are headquartered here, managing trillions in assets.
- Boston ranks among the top U.S. markets for venture capital, with startups in life sciences, robotics, and enterprise software raising billions each year.
- More than 50 colleges and universities enroll over 250,000 students, producing one of the most educated workforces in the country.
Providence
Rhode Island
The program's second base is Providence, an hour south of Boston. Providence is home to Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and sits at the center of a small but concentrated knowledge and healthcare economy.
- Brown University
- Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
- The Providence metropolitan area produces over $80 billion in annual economic output and anchors the economy of Rhode Island.
- Brown University is an Ivy League institution and one of the largest employers in the state, with research expenditures exceeding $300 million per year.
- Healthcare and life sciences drive the regional economy. Lifespan and Care New England operate hospital networks affiliated with Brown's medical school.
- CVS Health, a Fortune 10 company, is headquartered in nearby Woonsocket and employs roughly 300,000 people worldwide.
- Providence was historically the U.S. center of jewelry and silverware manufacturing and remains a hub for marine trades, defense, and design.
Participants work on their own ventures throughout the program and attend Ivy League admissions sessions at top business schools across Boston and Providence.
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