We put Classes 8 to 12 in the rooms where real decisions get made: live company problems, products shipped in a day, professionals at work. Built in Calcutta first, so students here stop travelling for what other cities take for granted.
One day, teams of three to four, a product live on the internet by the end of it. Run with the Calcutta AI Club, tech mentors on the floor throughout.
A live problem from a real Calcutta business, worked in teams with ex-McKinsey mentors and pitched back to the owners themselves.
Real internships and shadowing days with working professionals — the part of a profile that can't be bought, only earned by being useful.
One day. Teams of three to four. A working product on the internet by the time the room clears. Run with the Calcutta AI Club, with tech mentors on the floor throughout — no prior coding experience required.
Full details & how to applyA real Calcutta business hands over a problem it is actually facing. Students take the brief, work it in teams with ex-McKinsey mentors, and pitch their recommendation back to the owners — who sit on the judging panel.
Tell me when it opensInternships and shadowing days with professionals at work — sitting in on the meeting, seeing the decision get made, being handed something small and real to own.
Tell me when it opensConsultants who strategise and hire. Counsellors who curate narratives and get students in.
McKinsey consultant, then regional head of HR across the Middle East, Europe and North America — a career spent on the side of the table that decides who gets hired. He's hired and helped grow ministers, founders and executives: a cross between your admissions officer and your favourite teacher. A Calcuttan and a Xaverian, back to give students here a running start.
Admits from CMU, USC, Notre Dame, UCLA and Emory; he chose Berkeley. Travelled for business case competitions, learning not just how to think strategically and present confidently, but the recipe to build a competition at par with international standards. EY-Parthenon and McKinsey New York honed that experience further, training him to cut a page down to the one sentence that moves someone — the entire job in a pitch, a case, or 650 words.
Economics and strategy at Emory, then brand strategy work for Tim Hortons and Ben & Jerry's across Atlanta and Miami — where she learned to decide what something stands for before a word gets written. An Advanced College Advising certification from Teachers College, Columbia and 145+ students across every country's application system taught her what colleges actually screen for. She finds what a student is genuinely interested in, then builds the school years around it.
Dates, briefs and applications for every Student Boardroom event, sent to you before they go public. A few emails a term, nothing else.
Open to any student in Classes 8 to 12. Come with a team, or come alone and we'll place you in one. No portfolio, no prior record.