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Master in Management Hands-On Learning

You will work with real clients, take on real challenges, and deliver impact on the pressing issues companies are navigating now.

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Learning powered by doing

This 9-month, hands-on management program, designed for early professionals without a business background, empowers graduates to excel in high-growth management roles through real-world projects that deliver solutions to real companies.

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As a Master in Management student, you’ll work on collaborative teams to solve real problems with real companies in real-time. And it all happens in Boston, a city that’s launching the next generation of innovation in everything from technology to health care to nonprofits.

A new project every eight weeks

Unlike any other business master’s program, you’ll undertake a different hands-on learning project every eight weeks with the participation of 35 companies. You’ll learn to work in teams with a diverse set of colleagues. After each team experience, you’ll receive individualized feedback, which you’ll apply in the next project. Under the guidance of a faculty leader, small student teams work together in projects that grow increasingly complex as students build their capabilities.

Project 1. Business simulation and case competition

Student teams run a coffee company during its first year of operation.

Project 2: Business opportunity analysis project

Students use competitive analysis, trend data, and customer research.

Project 3. Customer experience

Students map the customer journey, prioritize a touchpoint for redesign, use design thinking to generate a new experience, validate the idea with potential customers, and complete the project with a prototype.

Project 4. Innovation project

Student teams build the business plan for their own idea and convince an investor panel to back the recommendation.

From Classroom Challenge to Award-Winning Idea

Heara began as a student innovation project with a clear mission: to make everyday listening effortless for people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss. The AI-powered mobile app automatically adjusts device audio to each user’s unique hearing profile, removing the need for constant volume changes or expensive devices.

Built by a seven-member team through user interviews, market research, and rapid prototyping, Heara grew from a classroom challenge into an award-winning idea at the 2025 Innovation Tournament. The team remains connected with innovators, mentors, and potential partners as they work to turn Heara into a real-world solution—proving that technology should adapt to people, not the other way around.

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Corporate Project Partners

Each corporate client invests their time in working with students on a bi-weekly basis. The client sets out project objectives, provides initial context, shares feedback on deliverables and assesses the final output with the goal of implementing the recommendations in full or in part.

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Merrill Lynch Logo
Boston Medical Center Logo
Avery Dennison Logo
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Real Projects, Real Stakes,
Real Impact

In this program with so much focus on real clients, you’ll dive into hands-on experience, applying classroom knowledge to real-world scenarios. It’s the ultimate bridge between theory and practice, preparing you for success beyond the classroom.

Recent Projects

  • New Shopping Experience for Launch of a New Brand of Spirits in North America
  • Redesign of Thoracic Cancer Patient Journey for Major U.S. Hospital System
  • Launch Plan for Introduction of a Sustainability Risk Management System for Global Insurer
  • Digital Marketing Plan for Genomics Services of Leading Life Science Company
  • Customer Experience Redesign to Make Kenmore Square a Retail Destination
  • New Physician and Nurse Practitioner Experience for Mid-Cap Pharmaceutical Company
  • New Online Shopping Platform for Global Grain and Protein Supplier

Case Competitions on Local and Global Stages

Case competitions are at the heart of the MiM experience, giving you the opportunity to test your skills on real business challenges while working under tight deadlines and alongside driven teammates.

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“Taking part in a case competition like Moving the Cities showed me how transformative global experiences and international learning can be. It helped me grow as a leader in ways the classroom alone couldn’t.

Opportunities like this are essential to the graduate business journey. You apply what you’ve learned with real teams and see firsthand how relationship-driven business truly is.”

Aiden Miller

MiM Student

Solve Complex Business Problems

From reimagining growth strategies for boutique firms to designing sustainable solutions for fast fashion, debating business ethics on a global stage, and collaborating with peers worldwide on urban sustainability, these experiences sharpen problem-solving skills, build confidence, and provide hands-on learning that sets MiM students apart.

Collaborate Under Pressure

On local and global stages alike, case competitions challenge students to think strategically, collaborate under pressure, and deliver innovative solutions —making them a cornerstone of the MiM’s hands-on business education. You’ll present ideas to executives, consultants, and hiring managers, gaining feedback from the very professionals you aspire to become

Learn by Doing, Connecting, and Creating with Innovate@BU

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At Innovate@BU, learning comes alive. Students don’t just study concepts- they apply them in real-world challenges, collaborating across disciplines to design, test, and refine solutions. From ideation workshops to interactive projects, every experience is practical, immersive, and skills-driven.

Turn Concepts Into Reality

Innovate@BU empowers students to turn their ideas into reality through extracurricular programming, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship minor, events with experts and peers, and much more.

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IDEA Con

Extend that experience at the yearly IDEA Con, the only cross-college conference of its kind. Meet movers and shakers from schools across the Northeast, attend interactive workshops, and gain hands-on skills and mentorship that prepare you to tackle complex problems, turn ideas into action, and shape the future you envision.

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What Real-World Learning Looks Like

Get a real POV on experiential learning, inside the classroom and beyond, through Questrom Master in Management students on social media.

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Application Deadlines

  • October 8th, 2025
  • December 1st, 2025
  • January 26th, 2026
  • March 23rd, 2026
  • May 4th, 2026*

*This date is only for domestic students or international students with a current, active F-1 visa.

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