Diamond Challenge Business Competition

Aspiring entrepreneurs will create, promote, and market a company to win over the Diamond Challenge Business Competition's judges. In this intensive format, students will conduct the business ideation process, create a business plan, conduct environmental scanning, establishing the organizational mission, vision, and value statements, create marketing and promotion strategies, write the business proposal and create a pitch-deck required by the Diamond Challenge Business Competition.

Designed For

○ Students who are interested in participating in the Diamond Challenge and/or Business Competitions

Level

○ All Levels

Class Format

○ One-on-one and Small Group (Max. 7 students/class)

Class Schedule

○ 12 classes total, 120 minutes each class

Tutor Intro

Teacher S — Northeastern University Professor

Currently an undergraduate and postgraduate professor at Northeastern University, a senior MBA lecturer at Cambridge University, and SummerFuel teacher at Tufts University and Harvard University;
With more than ten years of teaching experience, he has helped students gain significant achievements in business, leadership, academic writing, and international relations;
Since 2014, he has been the judge of Northeastern University’s graduate problem-solving and case study competition, and has served on the admissions committee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Washington Scholarship Program;
He received an undergraduate degree in communications, a graduate degree in management and education, and a certificate in higher education teaching strategies from Harvard University.

Class Intro

Aspiring entrepreneurs will learn to create, promote, and market a company to win over the judges in a Business Competition. This course is designed and taught by an M.B.A. professor and judge of graduate Business Pitch competitions. Topics include the differences between start-ups and small businesses, business ideation, designing business plans, environmental scanning, raising capital, developing budgets, establishing organizational structure, marketing and promotion strategies, persuasive sales pitches, and pitch-decks.