Business Strategy Capstone
Timeline
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September 9, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Projects Selected
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October 2, 2020Project Scope Approval
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October 29, 2020Final Report
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October 30, 2020Project Feedback Review - in class
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December 4, 2020Final Project Presentation
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December 9, 2020Experience end
Timeline
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September 9, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Projects Selected
Student's selections area finalized and permission granted to contact the organization
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October 2, 2020Project Scope Approval
Project scope is approved by professor (soft deadline).
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October 29, 2020Final Report
Up to you Tony.
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October 30, 2020Project Feedback Review - in class
In class review
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December 4, 2020Final Project Presentation
To be completed by due date
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December 9, 2020Experience end
Categories
Accounting Leadership Organizational structure Market research Product or service launchSkills
business consulting business strategy competitive analysis data analysis researchCapstone projects use students' competencies developed throughout the MBA program to solve real-world business problems supplied by a variety of organizations and are completed in the student's final term. Capstone projects are experiential learning in action that mutually benefit students and organizations.
Chosen projects are required to be strategic in nature, integrated across multiple functional areas (finance, operations, marketing, human relations, etc.) and can be completed in a 3-month time frame and are sufficient in scope to provide an average of 10hrs/week commitment from a 3-5 person student team.
Once the proposals have been selected by the students, the assigned team will reach out to their successful organization to arrange the first meeting. If your proposal is not successful, you will be contacted to see if you are willing to move your project to the following term for consideration of a new group of students with different areas of interest.
- Each team will make a formal presentation based upon their project to the project organization. The presentation will 20 minutes long and allow for 5 minutes of questions (25 minutes in total). Presentations will be open to the class but, in some circumstances, may be closed at the request of the project organization.
- A final 30 page project report discussing current strategies and potential relationships using multiple frameworks from the strategy class.
- Please note: We will be accepting projects after speaking with the company. The next step will be for our students to review all accepted projects and select the projects they will be working on by September 17, 2020. If no students select your project, we will un-match your project for this term and provide you a few details as we may be able to work together during our Winter semester.
Project timeline
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September 9, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Projects Selected
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October 2, 2020Project Scope Approval
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October 29, 2020Final Report
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October 30, 2020Project Feedback Review - in class
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December 4, 2020Final Project Presentation
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December 9, 2020Experience end
Timeline
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September 9, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Projects Selected
Student's selections area finalized and permission granted to contact the organization
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October 2, 2020Project Scope Approval
Project scope is approved by professor (soft deadline).
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October 29, 2020Final Report
Up to you Tony.
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October 30, 2020Project Feedback Review - in class
In class review
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December 4, 2020Final Project Presentation
To be completed by due date
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December 9, 2020Experience end
Project Examples
Check out this video that talks about this course including examples of past company projects in the past!
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Attend the final presentation and provide feedback.
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.
Sponsors should expect three meetings (or more) with their team during the semester.
Timeline
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September 9, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Projects Selected
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October 2, 2020Project Scope Approval
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October 29, 2020Final Report
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October 30, 2020Project Feedback Review - in class
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December 4, 2020Final Project Presentation
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December 9, 2020Experience end
Timeline
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September 9, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Projects Selected
Student's selections area finalized and permission granted to contact the organization
-
October 2, 2020Project Scope Approval
Project scope is approved by professor (soft deadline).
-
October 29, 2020Final Report
Up to you Tony.
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October 30, 2020Project Feedback Review - in class
In class review
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December 4, 2020Final Project Presentation
To be completed by due date
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December 9, 2020Experience end