Making a Lasting Impact for All Involved

There isn’t just one type of project or organization that works well for action-based learning. Regardless of industry, function, or geography, these partnerships are impactful for all involved — students, sponsors, and learning partners. Search and explore the examples on this page to view the many different ways we can collaborate with your organization.
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Technology Corporation

Objective:

Determine whether the sponsor should provide an AI-related product

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Financial Analysis and Planning
Team's Approach
  • Conducted 24 stakeholder interviews and market assessment
  • Evaluate competitor offerings and ecosystem of potential partners
Results
  • Market research, including analysis of potential industries, customer needs, product fits, and competitive advantages
  • Go-to-market justification
  • Assessment frameworks
  • Flow chart to guide SAS team on qualifying customer readiness
  • Early-stage new product playbook
Local
2023

Wealth Management Company

Objective:

Outline important factors to consider in the development of a subsidiary wealth management company

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Market Analysis and Assessment
Team's Approach
  • In-depth secondary research
Results
  • Analysis and recommendations on the following themes:
    • Operational Efficiency
    • Competition and Consumer
    • Marketing and Distribution
    • Staffing
    • CRM Platform
    • Alternative Investments
International
2023

Women’s Healthcare Startup

Objective:

Outline a go-to-market strategy to streamline new program enrollment and minimize B2C marketing efforts

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Go-To-Market Strategy
Team's Approach
  • Reviewed customer consent documents
  • Conducted PESTEL, 5Cs, and Cost-Benefit analyses
Results
  • Segmentation and analysis of market
  • Identification of ideal partnerships for program rollout
  • Recommendations on adjustments to customer portal and business model
  • Suggested measurements for success
International
2023

Aircraft Company

Objective:

Create a framework that ensures product and service offerings are reflected in an external customer catalog

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Operations Enhancement
Team's Approach
  • Reframed project scope after discovery phase to better address goals
  • Interviewed employees from all relevant departments
  • Created a future-state process map
Results
  • Recommendations to sustainably improve communication between departments
  • Framework for a new customer catalog
  • Timeline for framework implementation
Domestic
2022

Automobile Manufacturer

Objective:

Develop a strategic-luxury rubric for creating and testing potential Automotive Service Excellence recommendations

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Brand Positioning and Communication
Team's Approach
  • Researched current state of luxury and leading luxury brands across industries
  • Identified relevant luxury benchmarks
Results
  • Market Map
  • Strategy Canvas
  • Luxury Customer Journey
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Trend Report
  • Mobility Industry Strategy Memo
  • Strategic recommendations on luxury framework
Local
2022

Commercial Laundry Startup

Objective:

Identify opportunities to enter the uniform market

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Go-To-Market Strategy
Team's Approach
  • Interviewed 14 competitor companies
  • Conducted secondary research on laundry equipment
  • Conducted a market assessment
Results
  • Identification of potential customers and use cases
  • Recommendations on
    • Sales approach
    • Pricing structure
    • Hardware R&D goals
Local
2022

Consulting Subsidiary Company

Objective:

Create a skills mapping strategy to help assess the employee skills landscape

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Employee Experience Enhancement
Team's Approach
  • Conducted a market analysis using primary and secondary research
  • Interviewed employees about previous skills development initiatives
  • Applied findings to a future state vision
Results
  • Recommendations on
    • Skills strategy
    • Internal recruitment
    • External Recruitment
    • Learning and Development
    • Performance Management
  • Change management playbook
  • Performance measures
Local
2022

E-Commerce Platform

Objective:

Prototype a tool for quickly assessing prospective vendors on key social responsibility criteria

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Operations Enhancement
Team's Approach
  • Conducted a gap assessment of current process to best practices
  • Designed a tool and method of interpreting results
Results
  • Tool that increases sponsor's overall social responsibility and improves sourcing process clarity and efficiency
  • Recommendations for piloting the tool
  • Outline of opportunities for future tool development
Virtual
2022

Health & Specialty Foods Company

Objective:

Develop strategy and policy to address the environmental impact of changes in land use on the sponsor's value chain

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Supply Chain Optimization
Team's Approach
  • Interviewed 5 stakeholders
  • Reviewed 30+ articles, reports, and other documents
  • Analyzed 20+ related policies
  • Assessed landscape
Results
  • Recommendations on the following zero-deforestation policy parameters:
    • Level of ambition
    • Level of specificity
    • Leadership involvement
    • Transparency
    • Cross-organization collaboration
    • Policy implementation and next steps
Virtual
2022

Law Firm

Objective:

Enhance diversity-focused marketing and external-facing strategies to enhance DEI reputation among customers and peers

Program
Full-Time MBA
Project Focus
Brand Positioning and Communication
Team's Approach
  • Create and utilize DEI scorecard to analyze competition
  • Review internal documents and practices to identify improvement opportunities
Results
  • Recommend action-oriented approach to DEI communications (policies, programming, recruiting and retention)
  • Identify website improvement areas
  • Suggest new internal metrics to replace current ones
  • Identify plan to reposition brand with high level timeline and tactics
Local
2022