Add some business to your ideas.

Introducing the team…

Faculty Director: Yossi FeinbergJohn G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Economics Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite Staff: Jennifer Russell Sion, Assistant DirectorSandy Yujuico, Director

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite

• A rigorous academic program that teaches the fundamentals of business and practical aspects of developing and driving innovative ideas forward.

• A dozen of the most senior and experienced Stanford Graduate School of Business professors

• Content tailored to entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite: Program Content

Academic Instruction

• Core business skills: marketing, operations, strategy accounting, finance, economics and business models.

• Applied skills: negotiation, teamwork, public speaking, feedback, leadership and pitching ideas.

• In-depth entrepreneurship and design-thinking classes.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite: Program Content

Team venture project

• Learn how to evaluate, formulate, develop a business model and pitch an innovative idea.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite: Program Content

Project Guidance

• Apply what you learn in class to your team venture project via structured assignments and check-ins.

Collaborators

• Guest speakers, panelists, mentors, and business experts drawn from Silicon Valley and the GSB network.

• Culminates in a pitch to a panel of professional investors and experts.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite – Program Benefits

Academic• Learning fundamental and relevant insights as well as the “language” of

major business disciplines.

Practical• Developing the skills needed for turning an idea into a viable business.

Personal• Skills for working in teams, public speaking and presentation skills.

Professional• Join the Stanford Ignite and wider GSB networks and develop new ties to

participants and the entrepreneurial network in the valley and around the world.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite: Participants

Past Participants from Leading Companies

• Apple, Google, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Genentech, Microsoft, Sandisk, Hewlett-Packard, NVIDIA, Nokia, and Intuit have sent participants in the past

Various Backgrounds

• Mix of participants from engineering, medicine, science and humanities

Education

• 80%+ of participants have an advanced degree

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite: Application Process

Selective Program

• Exact program size depends on applicant pool but is capped for meaningful group interaction.

Admissions

• Application deadline: September 20, 2013

Interviews

• Group interviews.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite – Program Structure

Schedule• January 12 – March 13, 2014• Most Tue, Thu evenings, all day Saturday.• 27 program days, over 100 contact hours and many more project hours.

Cost• $10,000 for working professionals.

Completion• A certificate program: no grades or academic credit hours, subject to

attendance standards and completion of program milestones.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Ignite: Application Process

Requirements for complete application:

• Submission of online application, including resume and short essays.

• Two letters of recommendation – choose references who can speak to your innovation skills and entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial ambitions.

Eligibility:

• Minimum of a B.A. or B.S. (advanced degree preferred)

• Must not have formal graduate business training, or extensive managerial experience.