Every year, teams of second-year MBA students at the Smith School of Business apply their business savvy and prior professional experience consulting with leading area businesses, Fortune 500 companies, and government organizations. MBA Consultants help their clients solve complex business problems and explore new initiatives. Their projects deal with challenging issues in finance, marketing, strategy, and human resources, and consider applications of leading-edge information technology on business processes and customer relationships. Since the program's inception, our students have completed more than 250 consulting engagements. Beginning their first day of the semester, MBA consultants work with your organization to clarify the issue or objective at hand, and determine the scope of the project.
All projects generate deliverable written and oral reports.
Under the direct supervision of one of Smith's nationally prominent faculty researchers, the team works for 14 weeks on your project, with a level of effort equaling approximately 600 hours. Productivity metrics were designed by an MBA consulting team to help motivate managers and measure progress of a division of a leading aerospace and defense corporation.