Business & Entrepreneurship at Yale
From Market Research to Launch Plan
Located at Yale University
Program Highlights
Residential Tuition :
$6,098
Commuter Tuition:
$3,198
Session 1:
June 15, 2025
June 27, 2025
Session 2:
June 29, 2025
July 11, 2025
Session 3:
July 13, 2025
July 25, 2025
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Testimonials
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I came in knowing next to nothing about business and now I feel that I have flourished in business. This program is very beneficial and I feel that I am ready for college.
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Business could be a very real career choice for me! I enjoyed the class, and I think my group’s business model has a lot of potential.
Course Overview
Summer Springboard’s Business & Entrepreneurship course on the campus of Yale introduces aspiring entrepreneurs to the world of business and the areas that affect growing a business. Our course explores the aspects involved in starting, owning, and operating a business – from thinking through ideas, planning a business, and managing various considerations for growing a small business into an enterprise. Topics such as entrepreneurship, idea generation, customer relationships and revenue streams, personnel and human resource management, product design, cost accounting, financial analysis, marketing, and more will all be explored. Throughout the course, students will work in groups to generate a business idea of their own, and then follow the entrepreneurial process to develop the idea into a feasible prospective business startup. Ultimately, students will pitch their innovative ideas to a panel of business and entrepreneurship “judges” in a Shark-Tank type experience.
Meet your instructor
Sade Owoye is passionate about entrepreneurship, business, and innovation. She enjoys advising and teaching students the skills needed to build sustainable ventures. As Associate Director of student programming at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, she leads the Launch Pad and Accelerator program for early- to mid-stage ventures. She joined Yale from the University of Connecticut’s Small Business Development Center where she worked as a business advisor. She counseled an extensive portfolio of clients connecting them with over $3.5 million in funding opportunities. Previously, Sade was the co-founder and operations director of a specialty dessert & gift boutique, and also managed venture development programs for underrepresented students in Connecticut. She's been recognized by Pathways Academy of Technology and Design, the Urban League of Southern Connecticut, and Google for her work related to entrepreneurship and civic engagement.
Sade holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut and certificate in business scaling from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Executive Education Program. She is also an MBA candidate at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
Topics you'll explore
Hands-On Learning
Students will examine best practices in Research and Development (R&D), Operations, Marketing, and Finance. Understand the mechanics of scaling a business while maintaining quality.
Students become part of a new company and configure themselves into teams working on various aspects of a business. The program culminates in a shark tank environment with professional investors.
Career Exploration
Meet with range of business people, from small business owners, mid-level managers and execs from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey consultant, and CEO.
From creative marketers to hard-nosed financial analysts, there are myriad careers you may not have heard of. Together we will discuss the career options and the academic paths to get there.
