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Master's-Level Consulting

MGBL 901
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Queen's University
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Alexandra Jonca
Riipen Customer Success Coordinator
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Timeline
  • October 31, 2017
    Experience start
  • November 15, 2017
    Project Scope Meeting
  • June 1, 2018
    Experience end
Experience
15 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any
Any industries
Categories
Leadership Organizational structure
Skills
international business consulting
Learner goals and capabilities

Graduate-level students from the Smith School of Business will act as consultants to tackle an opportunity or challenge your organization is facing and provide analysis and recommendations.

Learners
Any level
110 learners
Project
80 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 6
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Students will provide a final report (length dependent on the individual projects) detailing their findings and actionable recommendations.

Project timeline
  • October 31, 2017
    Experience start
  • November 15, 2017
    Project Scope Meeting
  • June 1, 2018
    Experience end
Project Examples

Starting this November, a group of 6-8 Master of International Business students from Queen's University will devote 500+ hours to a business opportunity or challenge of your business is facing.

These international graduate school students have diverse backgrounds and career experience, and can offer unbiased assessments and recommendations for your company in a wide variety of areas. Students can offer a fresh outside perspective in addition to experienced insights.

Possible areas of focus could include, but are not limited to:

  • Market research to identify new strategies and opportunities
  • Brand and messaging assessment
  • Supply chain management/ process improvement
  • Technology solutions
  • Market entrance/expansion
  • Data analytics
  • Development and use of KPI/KLI's
  • Category management
  • Commercialization of social media
  • Sales and marketing strategy, etc.

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Be available for periodic phone calls and emails from the students.

Have a first initial meeting with the student group to discuss the work they will be doing.