MBA Capstone: Strategic Business Consulting Project
General
- Graduate; Capstone
- 30 learners; teams of 2
- 50 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 4/4 project matches
- Alberta, Canada
- Academic experience
- Small to medium enterprise
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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May 7, 2024Experience start
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June 22, 2024Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on MBA learners from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary to be your learner-consultants, in a project-based consulting style experience. Learners will work on one main project over the course of the semester, to provide a recommendation on a strategic business challenge. Students in this course demonstrate the value of applying theory and concepts learned during their MBA studies to the completion of a strategic project for an organization.
- Learner skills
- Internet research, Master of business administration (mba), Consulting, Business strategies, Research, Data collection, Writing
- Deliverables
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Deliverables are negotiable, and will seek to align the needs of the learners and the organization. Students will work on one project to:
- Analyze and research the challenge (may involve interviewing, library and internet research and data collection/analysis)
- Propose solutions that leverage organization resources
- Plan an interdisciplinary course of action to solve the managerial challenge
- Present their final project/recommendations (orally and in writing) to the client organization
Some final project deliverables might include:
- A 10-15 minute presentation on key findings and recommendations
- A detailed report including their research, analysis, insights and recommendations
Project Examples
A team of 2-3 students will provide pro-bono work on a specific challenge within your organization and offer solutions.
Project selected for this course should:
- Involve a strategic issue for the organization
- Be decision-oriented
- Provide value, both to the organization’s development and the students
- Be stable enough to avoid the risk of premature “project obsolescence”
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Be available for a quick phone/virtual call with a member of the Haskayne Student Services team to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.
Provide a dedicated contact person who is available for weekly/bi-weekly meetings to address learners’ questions as well as periodic messages over the duration of the project.