Turn a problem into a business question.

A short experiment

Choose a problem you have noticed at school, at home or at work. Describe who experiences it and how they solve it now. Write one assumption you would need to test before proposing a business. Your first objective is to understand the problem, not to produce a perfect pitch.

Connect the experience to your choice

Did you enjoy the kind of thinking involved? What was difficult? Would you want to practise it again? Use your observations to ask a university how its programme teaches and assesses related skills. This independent resource does not enrol you at Harvard, MIT or any listed university, and it does not provide degree credit.