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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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
What Real-World Learning Looks Like
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Application Deadlines
- October 8th, 2025
- December 1st, 2025
- January 26th, 2026
- March 23rd, 2026
- April 15th, 2026*
- May 4th, 2026**
*Last round for all international applicants who are not currently in the U.S. and on an active F-1 visa
**For Domestic Students & International Students with a current, active F-1 visa