The greatest responsibility of the Business Builders Club is the development of people. The Club exists to organize and provide value to any Ohio State student that wants to someday lead a business. In short, the Business Builders Club is a catalyst for the development of Ohio States entrepreneurial student body. Currently the Club has one Key Bank Workshop featuring a prominent speaker per quarter. The Club provides value to its constituents in three ways. One, by empowering top-notch members to actively plan, organize, and execute Club functions. Two, by encouraging Ohio State students to participate in the Clubs various events and programs. And three, by serving as a liaison between the new Center for Entrepreneurship and Ohio States entrepreneurial student body.

In some respects the Business Builders Club does not operate like a traditional student organization. Wherever possible, the Club is intended to function as a business. The Club does not hold elections, and Club operations are entirely managed by teams of students. Club events and programs are looked at as products, and members of the organization are viewed as customers. Students holding positions on the Clubs Executive Team have multiple responsibilities and must focus on many parts of the Club at once. The hope is that running the Business Builders Club as a business provides its student leaders with a practical and holistic experience, better preparing them to one day run a business of their own. The intention is to provide Business Builder student leaders with real responsibilities, and real experiences, in order to produce real results!

Three business students and one engineering student formed the Business Builders Club in the spring of 2001. The founders started the Club to serve what they perceived to be a large number of students, from many different colleges that hoped to one day start or lead a business of their own. From the very beginning, the Club cut across traditional boundaries of academic departments and set out to organize and provide value to Ohio States aspiring student entrepreneurs. In November of 2001, Ohio State formally announced the proposal of a new Center for Entrepreneurship. The Business Builders Club was represented in the development of the proposal and became the Centers official student organization. In this capacity, the Business Builders Club and the new Center for Entrepreneurship aligned as one to better serve Ohio States growing entrepreneurial student interest. Today the Club is the primary channel used by the Center to engage entrepreneurial students in entrepreneurially focused extra curricular activities.

The Business Builders Club logo is called the "Assembling Cornerstone." It was carefully designed to capture much of what the organization represents. The idea, the intended symbolism, is that the Club provides a development ground for students to assemble a strong personal foundation or cornerstone from which to build their own unique entrepreneurial dreams. The Club does not give the student a cornerstone, rather it provides stimulus for the student to assemble a cornerstone of his or her very own. In order to understand the deeper meaning behind the concept of a cornerstone, one must delve into the function of a cornerstone. According to Websters dictionary, it is a stone forming a part of a corner or angle in a wall; specifically: such a stone laid at a formal ceremony. This cornerstone is a basic element of the structure and functions as the mark from which the rest of the structure is built. The laying of the cornerstone is thus a celebration as it is the crucial piece from which the rest of the building process relies.