Rivers to Offer Summer Entrepreneurship Course
For high school students, summer vacation is a time to rest, recharge, and prepare for the challenges that await them when school reopens in September. However, the world of business keeps rolling through the summer months and will open its doors to students from Rivers and the community next summer through The Rivers Summer Academic Program’s Business Planning: Entrepreneurship in Action.
This summer program is derived from a college-level course that is designed to provide an authentic experience as part of an internal entrepreneurship project team. Students will work in small groups on start-up concepts that are provided by real-world entrepreneurs and will form their teams around shared interests.
Business Planning: Entrepreneurship in Action will meet at Rivers every Thursday from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. from July 29 – August 17, 2017.
Each team will select one of several presenting entrepreneurs to develop a business plan that will give them experience in working through product development, manufacturing, and distribution planning as well as the finance, marketing, and sales side of the project. At the end of the seven-week course, the teams will develop a strategic plan for their business present a five-minute “elevator pitch” to a panel of business professionals.
The course is open to students entering grades 11 or 12 in September 2017, although students entering grade 10 who have completed advanced work in one or more academic fields are invited to apply. The course is limited to 20 students, and applications are due November 1, 2016 to allow time to assemble a group of entrepreneurs that will meet student interests.
Teaching the course is Professor Gregory Stoller ’87, P’19,’21. Stoller is a senior lecturer in strategy and innovation at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and also lectures at Boston College. He is the owner of a commercial real estate holding company and speaks, reads, and writes in seven different languages. He holds a BS from Cornell University and MBA from Harvard Business School.
Students interested in applying for this course must submit a one-page essay describing their interest in and qualifications for taking this course. Applicants who do not attend Rivers are required to attach a copy of their most recent transcript. All applicants must include their name, address, telephone number, and email address.
Applications should mailed to:
David J. Tierney, Director of Summer Programs
333 Winter Street, Weston, MA 02493
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