Intro to Creative Entrepreneurship
Sponsored by the Office for the Arts & the Mignone Center for Career Success
Two-Day In-Person Program: January 22 & 23 2026
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 AT 11:59 ET
Are you an entrepreneurial student looking to build a dynamic skill set to market yourself as a creative leader—or to launch a new project?
Not sure whether you identify more as an entrepreneur or an artist? You don’t need to choose.
Join us for a two-day Winter Session program designed to help you recognize the skills you already have and adopt an entrepreneurial mindset for building something new, sparking collaborations, and staying curious.
Over two days, you’ll participate in workshops with creative entrepreneurs, sessions with keynote artists, lunch with Harvard faculty and staff, and guided time to ideate, refine, and shape your ideas into an actionable plan with a clear trajectory. You’re welcome to bring a project you’d like to develop—but it’s not required. This program is an introduction to approaching your work with the perspective of an entrepreneurial artist.
In this program, you will:
- Engage in dialogue with leading creative-sector entrepreneurs
- Develop and refine personal ideas and projects
- Discover on-campus resources and programming to support your path
- Learn how to access creative partners, funding opportunities, and best practices
- Design values-based objectives, pitch decks, and personal branding
Learn with Jim Augustine ’01, a media entrepreneur whose career has spanned theater, film, publishing, technology and business consulting; Sam Magee, Director of the Lemann Program for Creative Entrepreneurship; Rohit Deshpande, Professor at the Harvard Business School, and other local leaders, entrepreneurs and alumni.
Leave empowered to make creative visions a reality on your unique path to success!
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