The Center for Innovative Leadership (CIL) at the Carey Business School aims to advance knowledge and build capacity for innovative leadership in modern organizations.

CIL is a hub for new ideas and insights on leadership, combining faculty-led research, student-facing programming, and community-focused impact.

Join a design team and take a human-centered event from ideation to implementation.

Design thinking is a powerful tool to solve complex business problems and place your customer, user, or consumer at the center of your decision-making process. The power of design thinking comes from the combination of creative and analytic brainpower in an iterative, team-process. And many leading companies, including Apple and Google, have integrated design thinking into their business operations.

Joining a design team at Carey Business School is your opportunity to build and hone your design thinking skills without making a semester-long commitment to a course or club. You and the others on your design team will partner with a student organization to plan and oversee an event.

Who can join?

You do not need to be a member of the student organization to join the event design team, and all students (full-time, part-time, on-campus, and online) are welcome to participate.

Learn the design thinking process along the way:

• Empathize - learn about the audience.
• Define - sharpen key questions.
• Ideate - brainstorm and create solutions.
• Prototype - build representations of one or more ideas.
• Test - test ideas and gain user feedback.

Gain new skills

And complete the event with new, highly-marketable skills and specific experience to reference in your next job interview:

• Design thinking: Gain functional knowledge of the design thinking six-step process.
• Strategic planning: Develop a mission, vision, and plan of action for the project. Create goals, roles, and responsibilities for each team member.
• Project management: Create individualized project plans, to include roles and responsibilities, timelines, and deliverables. Execute projects that include reflection and assessment.
• Leadership: Build diverse teams that set and achieve goals. Manage your team’s dynamic.

Past projects have included:

• Danaher Case Competition
• Africa Business Conference
• Net Impact Conference
• Stoop Storytelling Event
• The Healthcare Business Conference

Interested in joining a design team?

E-mail carey.student@jhu.edu

Experiential courses

Put business theory into action, and learn by doing. Students transform local businesses from the ground up and travel around the globe including Germany, Peru, and Norway, all while earning course credit. Where will our experiential courses take you?

Requirements and electives vary by program.

Big Data Consulting Project

Analyze an organization’s large dataset, and present creative solutions to business challenges.

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Available through: The Full-Time MBA program

Citylab

Partner with existing economic and community development projects to position yourself for a career in urban innovation and entrepreneurial business with social impact.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• The Full-Time MBA program

Client Consulting Practicum/Health Care Strategy Consulting Practicum

In this two-course series, work as a consultant to address the client’s existing and emerging challenges in the health care space or other industry. This course has been specially optimized for online students.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• The Full-Time MBA program

Commercialization Academy Fellowship

An incubator for innovation at Johns Hopkins, the Commercialization Academy connects you with faculty, staff, and students across the university to bring over 300 new ideas to fruition and technologies to market each year.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• The Full-Time MBA program

Community Consulting Lab

Lead a consulting project and tackle real problems in partnership with regional nonprofits, start-ups, and small businesses.

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Available through:

• The Full-Time MBA program

Discovery to Market

Transform a scientific discovery into a viable commercial enterprise.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• The Full-Time MBA program

Global Immersion

Travel abroad to experience international trade policy, financial markets, and more first-hand.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• The Full-Time MBA program

Hexcite

At the Hexcite early-stage medical software accelerator, match with Johns Hopkins care providers who have an idea to create and market a software solution that improves patient care. Join a team of graduate students from across Johns Hopkins to engage with the new health technology software from every angle and bring the care provider's innovation to market.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• The Full-Time MBA program
• Masters of Science programs

Impact Sprints

Farms, emergency rooms, and local Baltimore organizations provide the backdrop to put your skills to the test, emerge as a confident, strategic leader, and help local organizations overcome obstacles to increase impact.

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Available through: Masters of Science programs

Innovation Field Project

Immerse yourself in a three-week field project, and help businesses adjust in rapidly changing market conditions.

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Available through: The Full-Time MBA program

Leadership Development Expeditions

Enhance your leadership skills on a nine-day outdoor excursion to Norway, Belize or Ecuador.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• The Full-Time MBA program
• The Executive Education program

Student Startup Challenge

Pitch your proposed business venture for the opportunity to receive over $15,000 toward your concept.

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Available through:

• The Flexible MBA program
• Masters of Science programs