Experiential Learning

First-Year Project (FYP)

Tuck's core curriculum provides a solid foundation in management, quantitative skills, and leadership. The First-Year Project takes the learning experience outside the classroom. Past students have embarked upon FYPs in battery storage manufacturing, electric utility opertaions, low carbon cement, sustainable transportation fuels, climate venture capital, and downstream oil and gas, among others.

Global Insight Expeditions (GIX)

Global Insight Expeditions encourage students and faculty to engage in coursework and experiential learning around the globe. Tuck faculty regularly offer GIXs that touch on energy and sustainability.”

Ecosystem Deep Dives

Ecosystem Deep Dives (EDDs) are experiential learning opportunities that immerse students into selected ecosystems, highlighting industries and/or the intersections of various industries in a given region.

Boston Energy and Climate Tech EDD
The Center leads an EDD to Boston for incoming first year Tuck students before the start of Tuck Launch and summer term. The trip is designed to kick-start students’ energy journey at Tuck, through meeting leading companies and investors, seeing groundbreaking innovation up-close, and building bonds with classmates with similar interests.

Students learn about the wide range of career opportunities in energy, from startups to Fortune 500 companies and from renewable developers to venture capital and private equity investors. This trip is ideal for students considering careers in the energy industry and ClimateTech, as well as consulting, banking, and tech roles that include a focus on energy and climate.  

Energy Case Competitions

Case competitions allow students to apply the business skills and industry knowledge they develop throughout their MBA program, to effectively analyze the most significant challenges facing today’s energy industry. Case teams often train with a Case Coach (current 2nd year Fellows) to prepare for these events. The events also provide opportunities to interact with corporate executives and recruiters from major companies, as well as students from other top business schools.

• Tuck Renewable Energy Finance Case Competition; Tuck School of Business | First held in 2020, the Tuck Renewable Energy Finance Challenge brought several teams together to present their recommendations to a group of business leaders comprised of representatives from Marathon Capital, New Energy Capital, Shell, and Swift Current Energy.
• National Energy Finance Challenge; McCombs School of Business | A business case competition focused on real world finance issues facing the energy industry. In 2025, Tuck clinched first place with teammates Eric Ma T’26, Anton Avdeev T’26, Brian Zhao T’26, and James Lewis T’26.
• Renewable Energy Case Competition; Ross School of Business | Brings together MBA case teams from across the world, competing to solve significant challenges facing the renewable energy industry today.
• Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition; Duke University

Speaker Series

A speaker series is an integral component to experiential learning. It facilitates a deeper understanding of discrete challenges across the energy sector, and allows for an opportunity to hear from Tuck alumni and other experts working in the field. Past speakers have included:

• Dan Brouillette, former US Secretary of Energy
• Halla Tómasdóttir, President of Iceland
• Dan Revers T’89, Founder & Chairman, ArcLight Capital
• Jon Fouts T’92, Co-Head of Global Power and Energy Group, Morgan Stanley
• Abby Hopper D’93, Former CEO, Solar Energy Industries Association
• Thad Hill T’95, former Chairman & CEO, Calpine
• Bart Cornelissen T’04, Senior Vice President, ADNOC
• Hudson Gilmer, Co-Founder and Chairman, LineVision
• Carmen de Pablo T’01, CFO, Moeve
• Michael Skelly, Co-Founder & CFO, Grid United
• Elyse Allan D’79, T’84, Former President & CEO, GE Canada.
• Kyle Teamey D’98, Managing Partner, RA Capital
• Edmund Gaither T’00, Independent Advisor, Energy and Natural Resources
• Caroline Mann T’15, Senior Vice President, Swift Current Energy
• Mike Miskovsky T’90, Serial clean energy entrepreneur

   

Local Experiential Site Visits

Students have opportunities throughout the year to see energy systems and breakthrough innovation up-close through site visits to infrastructure and companies across New England and beyond. These visits emphasize the scale and complexity of energy systems and investments, and situate them in their economic, environmental, and social context.

• ISO-New England
• Dartmouth’s Heating and Power Plant
• Wilder Hydroelectric Dam
• Northfield Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage Facility
• BETA Technologies Headquarters
• Boston Wind Technology Testing Center