Corporate Innovation in Practice
Tuck Executive Sprints at Dartmouth
Program Overview
Learn to innovate and drive growth for your company through entrepreneurial thinking.
The Corporate Innovation in Practice program at Dartmouth equips leaders to build a powerful internal engine for innovation — not just for one-off projects, but through a systematic growth capability embedded within their organization.
Delivered live and online over two three-hour-long sessions, this interactive program teaches participants to develop the mindset, structure, process, and strategic roadmap needed to conceive, launch, and scale innovative internal ventures.
Are you ready to think like an entrepreneur to help your company grow? Join us.
Program Benefits
Benefits For You
- Explore timely topics online, led live by award-winning faculty from Dartmouth’s top-ranked Tuck School of Business
- Learn to embed an entrepreneurial mindset across your organization
- Design and mobilize an effective innovation team to ensure execution capacity and internal alignment
- Build a repeatable innovation process tailored to your organization’s context
- Earn a general management certificate that can be shared on LinkedIn and included on your CV
- Gain access to the Tuck Executive Education alumni community and receive a 10% discount on future Tuck Executive Education programs
Benefits For Your Organization
- Because programs are topical and timely, participants begin applying their learnings immediately, resulting in an immediate ROI.
- For companies that send small groups, Tuck Executive Education programs create a common language and shared framework to help tackle challenges and drive action.
- Participants thrive post program and transfer their learning back to teammates. One client company has reported that 75% of their global leadership team is now comprised of Tuck Executive Education alumni.
Build a Business Case to Attend
Learn more about organizational benefits and how to advocate for yourself on our Building the Business Case page.
Who Should Attend
Corporate Innovation in Practice welcomes leaders from across industry and function.
Participants are typically business leaders who want to innovate from within and create new engines of growth for their company. The program is equally relevant for corporate managers exploring new business lines, executive teams wanting to embed innovation systematically rather than episodically, and small-business owners who want to grow their operations. All Tuck Executive Sprints are targeted at senior leadership as well as project and people managers at all levels.
This program is a fit for you if you meet the above criteria and seek to:
- Shape your organization's culture, decision rights, and risk systems to support internal innovation
- Take your innovative ideas from opportunity identification and validation to incubation and launch
- Plan for post-launch growth and portfolio management, including metrics, iteration or pivot decisions, scaling paths, and long-term sustainability
Come with Your Team
We encourage teams from the same company to attend the program at the same time to maximize application and impact. Groups of four or more participants who come together will receive a 10% discount on the program fee. To learn more about group enrollments and discounts, please contact us today.
Cohorts by the Numbers
Participant Stories
As a Tuck alumna, the Executive Sprint I took was a reminder of the outstanding quality of a Tuck education. Being able to tap faculty expertise in a shared learning environment with participants from across industries was invaluable. The program accelerated my learning curve in the best possible way.
Rebecca Joffrey T'97
IT Director of Strategy and Innovation, Cornell University
The Tuck Executive Sprint's bite-sized sessions work well for busy executives who find it hard to carve out a lot of time for personal development. Doing the sprint with a diverse group of leaders also enhances the experience and perspectives gained.
Jared Carlson
SVP of Operations at McCarthy Building Companies
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My Tuck Executive Sprint was a refreshing and intellectually stimulating experience—featuring sharp insights, practical tools, and thought-provoking discussions. It not only expanded my perspectives but also equipped me with actionable approaches for both professional and personal growth.
Thomas Sammer
CEO at Mediconsult AG
Program Curriculum
Be a change agent at your company.
From defining an entrepreneurial ethos and assembling the right team to designing a repeatable innovation process and executing on your strategy, Corporate Innovation in Practice introduces the complete intrapreneurship pathway, from idea to market. The program combines faculty-led sessions with applied design exercises, peer work, and synthesis to ensure that participants leave ready to innovate immediately.
Learn more about each Corporate Innovation in Practice session:
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Session One: June 3, 2026 - 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST
Building the Corporate Entrepreneurship Engine
In session one, participants will:
- Define the internal conditions required for entrepreneurial success: culture, governance, incentives, decision-rights, and risk tolerance
- Design the internal venture team, focusing on roles, structure, leadership, governance, accountability, and resourcing
- Frame and prioritize internal venture opportunities, articulating clear problem statements, customer value, and organizational fit
- Define the internal conditions required for entrepreneurial success: culture, governance, incentives, decision-rights, and risk tolerance
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Session Two: June 10, 2026 - 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST
From Internal Venture to Market Impact
In Session 2, participants will:
- Build a corporate innovation process: idea pipeline, validation gates, funding and decision checkpoints, kill-criteria, and speed/governance balance
- Develop a go-to-market strategy for their internal venture: value proposition, segmentation, channels, positioning, launch timeline, and launch readiness
- Define post-launch growth, scaling and portfolio strategy, including performance metrics, scaling criteria, pivot or sunset logic, giving them a complete end-to-end blueprint for internal venture execution
- Build a corporate innovation process: idea pipeline, validation gates, funding and decision checkpoints, kill-criteria, and speed/governance balance
Program Faculty
FACULTY DIRECTOR
Daniella Reichstetter T’07
Clinical Professor of Business Administration
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Often called "intrapreneurship" or "corporate entrepreneurship," entrepreneurial thinking is vital for every organization, no matter how storied their past successes may be. To seize future opportunities and grow over the long term, all leaders need to embrace the dynamism and innovative spirit of entrepreneurs.
The Tuck Experience
Tuck’s transformative experience, designed for your schedule.
All of our Executive Sprint participants experience what makes Tuck distinctive: world-class faculty, deeply personal engagement, and a focus on real-world application. Delivered live and online over four short sessions and two days, Tuck Executive Sprints brings the best of Tuck to you, no matter where you are.
Designed for busy executives, the format allows you to immerse yourself in transformative learning without stepping away from your responsibilities. You’ll leave with the same trusted frameworks, faculty access, and lasting insights Tuck is known for—ready to lead with clarity in a rapidly evolving world.
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