A full-time study program in building sustainable solutions to today’s business challenges.
Stockholm
Get hands-on experience and understanding of how to create and run a business in a diverse study environment. Dive into hands-on projects with real-life business cases and discover ways to improve your leadership know-how. This program involves real industry leaders at the forefront of their profession. From day one, you’ll work on real briefs from real clients – making sure you get the experience your future employer is looking for.
Leave business-as-usual at the door
Business Developers specialize in running, managing and developing businesses. They use digital channels and tools to stay competitive and sustainable.
Hyper Island will inspire you to open your mind and meet people who with new horizons to explore. You will try hands-on projects with real-life business cases, improve your leadership know-how, and find the intrapreneurial courage to shake things up a little at your place of work or start your own company.
The 65-week Business Developer program covers the entire spectrum of business skills needed to launch your career in Business Development. You’ll spend 48 weeks at our Stockholm campus, plus 17 weeks doing an internship anywhere in the world.
You will cover topics ranging from fast-paced development and data-driven marketing to digital commerce, social entrepreneurship and leadership and culture creation. Learn how to build and lead successful, effective teams through times of change and how to plan and run business development projects and drive growth in a digital context.
Break out of the traditional learning environments and learn from your new and exciting classmates that are from all corners of the world and from all walks of life. Get insights on how to collaborate effectively and how to lead business transformative projects.
From day one, you will work on relevant and real business projects/cases from industry. Understand the methods for creating data- and user-centric solutions as well as understand how trends, behaviors and technological advancements affect organizations and business models.
Launch your career
The insights, knowledge and portfolio of skills you will gain will help you reach a senior position as Strategist, Business Developer, Product Owner, Growth Specialist or Digital Marketer at an established company or lead an exciting new startup. Learn more on the Hyper Island alumni LinkedIn page
When you graduate, you will have a deep understanding of business models and how to create, lead and develop sustainable digital businesses. Specifically, you will be able to:
Hyper Island methodology is based on a learner-centered, experience-based approach. We facilitate learning journeys, where discovering, uncovering, applying and reflecting is all part of the process by which participants learn useful skills and knowledge they can apply right away.
Build, create, experiment! We know from more than 20 years of experience that people learn best through active doing and making.
Collaboration is the modern core competence in a world of complexity and constant change.
We build learning around actual examples and practical tasks to make it all immediately relevant and useful.
We work with world-leading industry experts to provide the most cutting-edge content.
Hyper Island gave me the foundation to approach creative challenges in an effective manner. I gained an understanding of team dynamics and how to manage processes and culture. Focusing on how to work in order to optimise creativity and feedback within each team.
At Hyper Island I learned not only how to create exceptional business results, but also how to create an environment ready for change and where people are eager to develop themselves and the business. For me, this is the two key ingredients for making companies ready for the future of digitalization.
This program is a vocational diploma program which means that you will practice experience-based learning; no textbooks, tests or traditional teachers. Instead, you will be a part of a collaborative and high-energy learning environment that mirrors the modern workplace dynamics. Surrounded by a diverse set of talent and industry experts from all over the world, you will get a chance to create solutions based on real problems of real clients.
Join a global network
Hyper Island alumni and collaborators can be found in every corner of the world. Join our global network of Change Makers and Radical Thinkers.
