The List has partnered with Cornell University's Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management Chair, Karan Girotra to offer the Summer Research Program (SRP), a research program that is 100% online. During the SRP, students will work directly with Prof. Girotra on rigorous research study over the course of 6-weeks. Under the professor’s tutelage, students will devise their own research topic, create hypotheses, conduct research, engage in peer review, and present their findings in the form of a final paper or project. Along the way, students will also learn from professors in intimate tutorial-style settings of no more than 10 students, gaining exposure to the rigor of college-level research.

Component

Each week consists of two online sessions guided by the professor, each of which is one hour long. One hour will be a lecture format in which the professor leads a discussion on a topic following the course syllabus. The second hour will be more discussion and project-based, guided by student’s questions pertaining to their research topic, as well as conducive to peer suggestions and feedback.

The program will be organized as a series of 6 weekly sprints. Each sprint will start with learning a new toolkit, followed by applying it to your area of interest, and will close with studio-style feedback, critique, and iteration. As such, during the program you will identify 10s of new venture opportunities of interest to you, you will select amongst them, design a plan to derisk and hopefully pilot and launch some of these ventures. 

Once student capacity is reached, registration for enrollment will be on a rolling basis.

What You Gain:

• Weekly 1-on-1 Office Hours with Prof. Girotra

• Mentorship with Cornell graduate business students!

• A Letter of Recommendation

• Applicable experience in Business/Finance for future college and career aspirations

• Webinars & workshops

Program Duration

Monday, June 21st - Monday, August 2nd (6 weeks)

Building Transformational Businesses

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Rapid advances in digital technologies and democratized access to the entrepreneurial stack presents individuals with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build new products and services that change the world.  Building Transformational Businesses is a high-intensity, experiential workshop that will help you become a world-class builder.

Through a combination of instruction, action, and critique, participants work through a process of identifying, refining and de-risking new venture opportunities. Along the way, participants build a builder’s mindset—a collection of habits, behaviors, and leadership styles, that make you a more effective problem solver, a thoughtful entrepreneur and teach you to lead in high-uncertainty environments—skills that are key to contemporary careers in business, technology, and public-service. 

Pedagogically, the best way to learn to be a builder is by building stuff in real life. As such, you will apply everything we learn in real-life, i.e. there is no make-work in this course and all exercise will involve you building a new business in the real world.

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