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MBA Strategic Consulting Projects

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Engage one or a team of Foster MBAs in a collaborative project focused on delivering your business value and preparing for the future! Foster MBA teams have conducted projects for hundreds of businesses, offering industry and market research insights, fresh ideas, and actionable recommendations. This is your opportunity to access strong talent and a potential hiring pool! See the many ways Foster MBAs have delivered value to companies below!

 

Engage in a Project with Foster MBAs

<strong>APPLIED STRATEGY PROJECTS</strong>
APPLIED STRATEGY PROJECTS

Timeline: Jan 6 – Mar 14, 2025

 

Team Composition: 5 to 6 first-year MBAs (class profile) offering up to 600 hours

 

Project Objective: Address a discrete strategic challenge such as assessing market needs, product viability and revenue potential, new product positioning, target customer segments for optimization, the financial landscape for potential increased profitability, or more examples below

 

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Oct 18, 2024

Submit Proposal

<strong>MBA CONSULTING PROJECTS</strong>
MBA CONSULTING PROJECTS

Timeline: Sept 25 – Dec 6, 2024 | Jan 6 – Mar 14, 2025 | Mar 31 – Jun 6, 2025

 

Team Composition: 3 to 5 advanced MBAs (Full-time class profile | Evening class profile) offering up to 500 hours

 

Project Objective: Address a strategic interdisciplinary challenge such as recommending ways to optimize the customer/user journey or pricing structure, analyzing cost to benefit scenarios for strategic initiatives, and more examples below

 

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Jan 31, 2025

Submit Proposal

<strong>Service Corps PROJECTS</strong>
Service Corps PROJECTS

Timeline: Spring Mar 31 – Jun 6, 2025

 

Team Composition: 3 to 5 MBAs (Full-time class profile | Evening class profile) offering up to 500 hours of effort

 

Project Objective: Address challenges faced by non-profit businesses such as any of the examples listed below

 

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Jan 31, 2025

Submit Proposal

<strong>IN THEIR OWN WORDS</strong>
IN THEIR OWN WORDS

“The company actually had other professional consultants also working on doing the same type of work as us, just for another segment, which made it all feel very substantial and true to the kind of work we could be doing post-MBA.”
-Jillian Santos, Class of 2023

“I had an incredible experience working on a new platform designed to help organizations create a thriving culture. I feel confident the experience and learnings gained will be invaluable as I move forward in my career.”
-Shriti Singh, Class of 2024

Arranged by functional scope

* Scope of examples best suited for Applied Strategy and Service Corps projects

Strategy

  • New business and product assessment, including design, packaging, and distribution channels*
  • Customer/user experience journey mapping
  • Identifying socially responsible and sustainable business solutions*
  • Cost benefit analysis of strategic initiatives
  • New Product or service channel optimization

Market Research / Marketing Strategy

  • Market research and new product positioning*
  • Optimized target customer segmentation and market-sizing*
  • Competitor marketing analysis and messaging recommendations*
  • Customer lifetime value (CLV) analysis and recommendations for growth*
  • Communications and marketing plans for strategic initiatives*
  • Strategic launch, including e-commerce and store openings

Finance/Business Planning

  • Industry payment terms benchmarking for optimization*
  • Landscape assessment and recommendations for increased profitability*
  • High-level cost benefit analysis of strategic initiatives
  • Pricing optimization
  • Asset lifetime value optimization
  • Strategic growth plan for domestic and/or international expansion
  • Cash flow management optimization
  • Carbon offset identification and emissions stabilization strategy with carbon-neutral growth

Operations & Supply Chain

  • Cost optimization for supply chain delivery services
  • Production efficiency and efficacy assessment with recommendations for improvement
  • Outsourcing optimization assessment

Organization Governance/HR

  • Employee satisfaction and retention optimization
  • Succession planning guide and employee training plan
  • Performance metrics scorecard/dashboard toolkit
  • Organization structure assessment
Accolade
Adobe
Alaska Airlines
Apptio
Avvo
Amazon
Boeing
Boys & Girls Club
Brooks Sports
Bunker labs
CDK Digital Marketing
Costco
Dell EMC
Disney
Dolby
Dry Soda Co.
Eddie Bauer
Egencia, an Expedia Company
Everledger
Expeditors International
Fair Trade USA
F5 Networks
Foss Maritime
Getty Images
GM Nameplate
Golob Partners
Google
Groundspeak
Holland America Line
Intel
K2 Corporation
Landesa
La Panzanella
Lumenal LightingMagnolia Chamber of Commerce
Marchex
Microsoft
National Park Service
Nike
Outdoor Research
PACCAR
Pacific Integrated Energy
PepsiCo LatAm
Philips Ultrasound
Planetary Power
Providence Health & Services
Puget Sound Energy
REI
SAP Concur
Saltchuk
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle Mariners
SightLife
Skanska
Smartsheet
Starbucks
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates
Talking Rain
T-Mobile
Vulcan
Volt Athletics
Wells Fargo Bank
West Monroe Partners
Weyerhaeuser
Wunderman
Wyze Labs
Xbox
YMCA

Three Steps to Engage

Receive evidence-based recommendations for addressing your current, relevant business challenge through a 10-week project engagement for a nominal fee (non-profit organizations are exempt). It takes only three steps to participate…

  1. Consider your business needs and identify a challenge to be addressed– Connect with Samantha Buhr ([email protected]), Foster Director of MBA Strategic Consulting with 10+ years of experience at a large global management consulting firm, to discuss how your business can get the most value out of a project
  2. Submit your proposed project scope by the deadline listed above – Use this Project Proposal link
  3. Meet with the Director of MBA Strategic Consulting – If your project is selected, you will be asked to participate in a 30-minute to finalize logistics and expectations for a successful start and completion of your project…after which you’ll be introduced to the MBA team who will lead the execution of the project from there

MBA Student Stats

28Average age of MBA student
5.7Average years of professional work experience

Read about the success of recent UW Foster MBA project here…