Adaptive Fellowship Application

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The Adaptive Fellowship is a 7-month leadership and venture-development program for college students and recent graduates who want to build meaningful careers and market opportunities in emerging and underserved markets.

Who are Adaptive Fellows?

Adaptive Fellows are kind, curious, collaborative leaders who lean into change instead of resisting it. They:

Treat uncertainty as a chance to learn
Adjust quickly when plans break
Ask “How can I help?” even when the situation is unclear
Look for market opportunities in emerging problems and shifting conditions

Why This Fellowship?

World-Class Professors and Practitioners and Innovative and Adaptive Curriculum.

The Adaptive Foundation Fellowship draws on a powerful academic ecosystem built through our founder’s alumni relationships across many of the world’s leading universities. And his lifelong passion for eduction and helping others. This network enables us to recruit exceptional professors, researchers, and practitioners whose teaching reflects the highest standards of global scholarship and real-world impact.

Our academic and professional relationships span:
• Carnegie Mellon University – Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Program
• Cornell University – School of Industrial and Labor Relations
• Harvard Business School
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• IMD Business School
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Stanford University
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Cambridge
• University of Oxford
• University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School
• Yale University

These institutions represent the very best in technology, business, public health, labor economics, leadership, and innovation. Through these connections, the Fellowship is able to bring together elite faculty, professors of practice, and industry experts who volunteer their time to teach, mentor, and inspire our Fellows.

This academic network is one of our greatest strengths—ensuring that every Fellow learns directly from global leaders at the forefront of research, policy, and industry transformation.

The Adaptive Fellowship is for people who value adaptability—not perfection—and who want to grow as builders and problem-solvers in a changing world.

Program Dates: June–December 2026

Application Deadline: February 28, 2026

Decision Notification: March 31, 2026

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