Two-Year MBA Entrepreneurship

Plug into the ecosystem. Engage with advisors and mentors, entrepreneurs and inventors, and investors—on and off campus—to get guidance and support to launch and scale your venture.

Our Startup Suite of Student-Run Entrepreneurship Services

BR Venture Fund: A seed-stage venture capital fund focused on early-stage, high-growth, Cornell-connected businesses
BR Tech Strategy: MBA teams consult with Cornell inventors to analyze commercial opportunities for early-stage university-generated technology
BR Microenterprise: Spurs microenterprise development by helping the self-employed reach their business goals

More About BR StartUp Suite

eLab Student Accelerator

eLab is Cornell’s student accelerator program that launches several businesses each year. The program welcomes a large number of student teams in the fall semester and then narrows the cohort in the spring based off a pre-determined rubric instructors use to evaluate teams’ performance and business models.

Students in eLab get access to an advisory board of successful entrepreneurs and three opportunities to pitch their business – in NYC, Silicon Valley, and Ithaca. The program also offers $5,000 in funding for customer discovery and 4.5 credits from the SC Johnson College of Business.

To learn more and apply, visit: https://www.elabstartup.com/

Green Technology Innovation Fellowship

The Green Technology Innovation Fellowship at Cornell, offered by the SC Johnson College of Business, provides business students, graduate research students, and postdocs focusing on clean energy and climate technology from across Cornell’s colleges an opportunity to immerse themselves in practical technology-based startup creation. Participants receive the tools, training, and entrepreneurial mindset to launch their own startup or become the next set of leaders working in the burgeoning green technology economy.

The program is built around a workshop course, NBA 5185, that uses participants’ research skills and dissertation topics as the source material for the development of business hypotheses. Cross-disciplinary teams that include the researcher will develop “entrepreneurial judgment” as they decide how to best test their hypotheses and thereby de-risk their potential business models. Experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and faculty provide constructive feedback on participant learnings and priorities on a regular basis. NBA 5185 is exclusively offered to students in this program.

To learn more and apply, visit: https://eship.cornell.edu/item/green-technology-innovation-fellowship/

Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship for Johnson MBAs

The Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship (formerly known as the BioEntrepreneurship Initiative) at Cornell, offered by the SC Johnson College of Business, is an Empire State Development-funded entrepreneurship initiative aimed at developing the next generation of life science startup leaders. The program provides business students, graduate research students, and postdocs with an interest in health, pharma, med tech biotech, veterinary tech, molecular bioscience, and agritech from across Cornell’s colleges an opportunity to immerse themselves in practical technology-based startup creation. Participants receive the entrepreneurial training, mindset, and judgement to launch their own startup or become the next set of leaders working in the growing life science technology economy.

The program is built around a workshop course, “Life Science Entrepreneurship in Practice,” that uses participant’s research skills and dissertation topics as the source material for the development of business hypotheses. Cross-disciplinary teams that include the researcher will develop “entrepreneurial judgement” as they decide how to best test their hypotheses and thereby de-risk their potential business models. Experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and faculty provide constructive feedback participant learnings and priorities on a regular basis. This course is exclusively offered to students in this program; academic credit is awarded as NBA 5175 to participants who qualify.

To learn more and apply, visit: https://eship.cornell.edu/item/life-sciences-tif/