Full-Time MBA Intensives

Intensives are two courses taught over the first seven weeks of the spring semester offered to Two-Year MBA and Johnson Cornell Tech MBA. Students in intensives have the opportunity to work together and learn from each other. Ithaca-based students gain access to the state-of-the-art resources of Cornell Tech and New York City through intensives. During the intensives, students spend seven weeks at our Cornell Tech campus in New York City and have the option to extend their stay for an additional seven weeks, completing the entire semester there if desired.

The goal of the Fintech Intensive is to provide hands-on learning in the emerging financial technology sector. A confluence of events and trends have set the stage for large-scale technological disruption of the financial services industry. Financial institutions are keenly embracing the digital economy, and banks have renewed their focus on technology-driven products and market innovation.

The Fintech Intensive exposes students to startup ideas and ventures, technical concepts, and real-world case studies of technology applications in multiple areas of the financial services industry. Through our collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, students also run a project to put their coursework into practice.

Culture & Media Tech Intensive

The Culture & Media Tech Intensive explores how digital technology has disrupted the information, arts, and entertainment industries. Understanding this disruption, and its strategic and cultural implications for business leaders, entrepreneurs, public institutions, and society, is imperative.

Students will analyze cases of organizations in publishing, news, media, and entertainment and other cultural sectors to explore and understand the economic, organizational, and strategic underpinnings of audience/market-building and retention by media and culture firms, markets, and institutions operating in the digital context. The learning from classroom concepts and tools and methodologies will be supplemented by practical insights provided by the real-world projects and guest speakers.

Weekend Courses

Selected courses taught over a long weekend in New York City.

Experience Cornell Tech and strengthen your New York City connections through weekend elective offerings.

Offered during the fall semester, weekend electives engage students in various tech-focused topics such as design thinking, designing data products, Tech company exits, and the business of gaming.