Since 1980, Tuck Advancing Entrepreneurship Programs have empowered more than 9,000 small business owners and underrepresented entrepreneurs.

Our uniquely constructed programs offer participants exactly what they need at different points in their ownership journey. These programs have transformed businesses by supercharging participants with the capabilities and networks they need to accelerate their growth and success. Emerging entrepreneurs learn the fundamentals of business and what it takes to succeed, while established business owners and their top team members gain the deeper knowledge they need to accelerate their growth and success.

Tuck profoundly understands the needs of our participant population. Our world-class faculty know the challenges that entrepreneurs face, and combine deep academic knowledge with extensive real-world experience to offer practical, actionable insights. Faculty equip entrepreneurs with the tools and support to strengthen their leadership and drive success in both the marketplace and their communities.

Tuck Advancing Entrepreneurship Programs build on the top faculty and superb education for which Tuck is famous, customizing our executive programs to meet the needs of all small business owners, with recognition of the unique needs of underrepresented entrepreneurs, including business owners who are people of color, veterans, women, disabled, and/or LGBTQI+.

The impact of our programs is meaningful and vast: as we support the growth of our participants and their companies, they in turn create jobs and opportunity in their communities. Many participants go on to mentor other entrepreneurs, which only contributes to the broader prosperity our programs can bring.

For sponsoring corporations, the impact is equally significant. Because Tuck understands the very real needs of corporations, our programs focus on helping participants realize the full potential of their value to the supply chain. Many sponsors find that their participants are able to make immediate improvements to their business that help optimize sponsor’s business supply chain objectives.

The full price of a one-week Tuck Executive Education program is $14,000. For the Tuck Advancing Entrepreneurship Programs, half of this cost is charitably underwritten by Tuck. The participant fee covers the balance of tuition and materials. We do everything we can to keep this participant fee low, in order to make our programs accessible to the widest audience possible. 

A setting unlike any other.

Tuck is located in the heart of New England, in the quintessential college town of Hanover, New Hampshire. Our immersive environment offers rich opportunities to refresh yourself mentally and physically as you're learning transformative new skills.

For decades, our faculty and staff have offered participants the personal, connected, and transformative experience for which Tuck is renowned. Executives return to work ready to apply their new frameworks.

45 years of developing business owners

Tuck Advancing Entrepreneurship Programs are renowned for their ability to genuinely change lives: participants who attend say they are able to make real, vital changes that improve their bottom line immediately after returning home. Perhaps most importantly, these successful participants go on to become pillars in the community, creating jobs for local employees and providing mentorship to other entrepreneurs. In 2025, our 45th year, we look forward to celebrating this legacy of impact while eagerly looking ahead to the future.

In 1980, Tuck’s visionary leaders saw an unmet need. In an era of increased outsourcing, corporate success depended on supplier excellence, but no other business school was focusing on developing the business acumen of the rapidly growing minority business sector. Determined to meet this need, Tuck worked with the US Small Business Administration to launch what was then called the Minority Business Executive Program in the summer of 1980. Twenty-six participants attended the inaugural session, laying the foundation for an alumni network that has grown to include more than 9,000 entrepreneurs, executives, and supply chain leaders.