MBA Students

Successful entrepreneurs understand the essential value of experience, both inside and outside the classroom. Discover programs, courses, and resources to help guide you through your Harvard Business School entrepreneurial journey.

New Venture Competition

Pitch your concept and get feedback, mentorship and a chance at $210,000 in prize money.

The audience cheers a winner of the 2024 New Venture Competition.

Courses

Our courses provide the foundation for understanding the processes, finances and context of entrepreneurship. They bridge the gap from the theoretical to the practical and offer invaluable takeaways for the real-world of startups.

All Courses

Startup Bootcamp

Demo Day

An opportunity for selected teams to present pitches to early-stage investors, exhibit posters, and meet with early-stage institutional and angel investors.

Demo Day

Rock Summer Fellows

Secure funding for a summer well spent between your RC and EC years developing your own new venture or joining an early-stage start-up.

Rock Venture Catalyst

Expert Advisors

We always revel in the accomplishments of our graduates and for the past eight years, we've invited experienced and successful entrepreneurs to come to HBS for the academic year to advise and mentor student entrepreneurs.

Students can arrange to meet 1:1 with our Dean appointed Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiRs) or with our Venture Capital Advisors (VCAs), and Legal Specialists.

Expert Advisors (login required)

Harvard Innovation Labs

A unique collaboration and education space designed to foster entrepreneurship and innovation across all 13 schools at Harvard.

Harvard Innovation Labs

Loan Reduction

Access a needs based loan reduction for graduating HBS students who have founded a for-profit new venture and are pursuing it full time.

Loan Reduction

More Resources & Opportunities

  • Student Journey

    Whether you’re a founder, joiner, investor, or undecided, explore all we have to offer during your two-year entrepreneurial journey.

  • Student Clubs

    Find potential partners in the Entrepreneurship Club and future investors in the Venture Capital/Private Equity, Entrepreneurship through Acquisition, and Impact Investing clubs.

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