Client fees, however, cover only a fraction of all the teaching and administrative costs of the Program. The Paul P. Dosberg Foundation and the Gilbert Klausner family have supported the administrative costs of the Recanati program with Israel. The administration of all the partner business schools have funded the teaching costs and the administrative costs of start-up, coordination, and expansion. Client fees for GCP projects are far lower than the professional fees of strategic consulting firms for similar consulting projects about the U.S. market. In addition, a modest research budget is made available to each team for research expenses such as communications, visiting trade shows, research travel, purchasing data and reports.
Students receive course credit.
The GCP is expanding to satisfy student demand, but the expansion must be slow in order to assure quality. This represents an increase from 2000-2001, when there were 12 GCP projects and 60 student participants. High tech projects and consumer goods projects will all be represented. Each student applicant provides an application, including a resume and a cover letter explaining their interest in GCP and the strengths they would bring to a project team. All applications are reviewed by the GCP Senior Director and the GCP Director.