Apply

Singapore · March 15–20, 2027 · Apply by January 31, 2027 · Register by February 20, 2027

Entrepreneurial and business education — the will to prepare to win
For entrepreneurs and small businesses

FAMMOUSS® Foundations

The essentials of running and growing a venture — a high-impact, in-person program. Fast-track MBA energy, without leaving your company for two years.

Your passport to business success

FAMMOUSS® Foundations combines the most essential elements of business education typically taught in the first year of the world’s leading business schools — then goes further into arenas familiar to Wall Street, including options, derivatives and uncertainty.

Benjamin Franklin: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” That caution is the point of this classroom. We prepare operators to enter a high-intensity world they cannot fully predict.

The program is a 10-day, in-person certificate delivered in two modules. Instruction typically runs from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Module I is a prerequisite for Module II. Day Zero covers Excel, PowerPoint, statistics and probability for participants who need that preparation. Module II completes the FAMMOUSS® curriculum and closes with a business-case competition. Managerial negotiations is taught by faculty from Columbia and Stanford Universities, in the classroom and by webinar, together with distinguished professionals from the investment community.

It begins with you — FAMMOUSS® classroom
The acronym

What FAMMOUSS® covers

Finance, Accounting, Macroeconomics, Markets, Options, Uncertainty & Risk Management, Sales and Strategy — the arenas of sustainable entrepreneurship and business leadership.

The program

Two modules. Ten days.

Pre-work draws on cases from Harvard, MIT Sloan, Columbia and London Business School.

Module I — Foundations

Day Zero: Excel, PowerPoint, statistics and probability. The remaining days of Module I address financial and managerial accounting, corporate finance, capital markets and macroeconomics. Module I is required before Module II.

Module II — Markets and Strategy

Options and derivatives, managerial negotiations, sales and marketing, media, entrepreneurial finance, enterprise risk, regulation, tax and legal, private equity and venture capital, the 2008 crisis, BRICS, and a participant-choice industry review. The program closes with a business-case competition. Teams present as they would in a real investor room; the winning team receives a full refund of program fees. Participation is not mandatory; we strongly urge it.

Professional network

Show (and tell) business

The jury is designed to feel like the investment community: angels, corporates, and private-equity and venture professionals — people who might actually pursue a sharp idea. Runners-up may receive up to 50% of program fees.

Developed by Columbia Business School alumnus Roger Phillips, who leads instruction, with guest faculty and practitioners. Typical class size is about 50, so the room still has a pulse. Business casual is the recommended dress code.

Singapore classroom: March 15–20, 2027. Apply by January 31, 2027; register by February 20, 2027. International classroom venues for Singapore, Dubai and other cities.

Apply now