MIT Global Entrepreneurship Lab
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Fast facts: G-Lab
Think of MIT G-Lab as a cost-effective, ~4 month project working with a team of 4 MIT Sloan MBA students to solve your biggest strategic challenges:
- G-Lab teams work part-time from MIT from September through December.
- G-Lab teams work full-time in person at your offices for 3 weeks in January.
- You determine the project scope and deliverables.
G-Lab has no fee. Your sole cost is to pay for the team’s coach airfare and provide a simple, safe place to stay.
For 25+ years and 800+ projects, MIT G-Lab teams deliver results.
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Project scope
What our teams do:
- Strategic growth
- AI transformation
- Financial modeling
- M&A valuation
- New market entry
- VC & alternative funding
Team profile
Who our teams are:
- 4 second-year MIT MBAs
- 5-8 years of work experience
- 27-31 years old
- 40% from US; 60% global
- Backgrounds: consulting, tech, finance, startups
Who our host companies are
- Startups or scaleups
- Emerging or frontier markets
- At growth inflection point
- Sector agnostic
- EE company or pipeline/scaleup
- Outside the USA
Endeavor Entrepreneurs
What our teams do
Example G-Lab projects
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Populix
Indonesian consumer insights scaleup Populix partnered with G-Lab to create a GTM strategy for their new customer AI tool. The team’s deliverables included mapping the optimal acquisition channels to turbocharge growth.
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Paymongo
Philippine-based digital payments firm Paymongo asked G-Lab to tailor a product-led growth strategy for a new customer segment. The team’s competitive and trend analysis yielded recommendations that led the firm to significantly revise its initial strategy.
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Thune Eureka
Spanish advanced manufacturing firm Thune Eureka worked with G-Lab to assess and blueprint an AI transformation strategy and playbook for AI education and change management across the firm’s operations.
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Elevva
In the Argentine market, e-commerce platform Elevva engaged G-Lab to craft an AI transformation playbook spanning assessment and re-engineering, with internal operations and priorities.
What our host companies say
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Kenyan Med Services Chain
"Very professional and self driven. Scoped the problem independently well and forged ahead despite data constraints at times. The team ran a very successful, extremely eye-opening ideation workshop which was the highlight of the engagement."
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Indonesian Agtech Company
"The team's performance exceeded our expectations; in fact, they acted as a true extension of our own leadership team. They entered a niche industry and quickly identified levers for growth and efficiency that were both innovative and culturally aligned with our values."
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Argentinian Crypto Platform
"Our team brought analytical rigor and impactful insights to the project. They also brought dedication, passion, and a constant drive to keep learning. They stepped outside their comfort zone...embracing new regulatory, economic, and cultural dynamics—a mindset that is essential in the world of startups and entrepreneurship."
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Chilean Trading Fintech Company
"Each team member demonstrated a great fit with our corporate culture, practically becoming one more member of our team. Their individual expertise brought new perspectives, challenging how we do things and "infecting" us with their viewpoints. I think we were lucky to have such a great team for our first experience."