Prepare for the next stage of your career through the Full-Time MBA and Accelerated MBA capstone experience, the Innovation Field Project. This course pairs you with a corporate project sponsor, where you’ll serve as a consultant to address critical business challenges and identify new opportunities.
Partner with leading corporations such as Siemens, AstraZeneca, Constellation, Kaiser Permanente, and Fidelity to sharpen your collaboration skills and gain experience presenting recommendations in a team-based setting. Students have worked across sectors like health technology, business continuity, sustainability, health equity and management, operational efficiency strategy, and more.
Use data to solve complex business challenges in your MBA innovation project
Put your MBA learning into action by evaluating complex business challenges through rigorous data analytics and creative problem-solving. You’ll develop innovative, data-driven, and actionable recommendations while strengthening essential career-building skills such as goal setting, conflict management, and building high-functioning teams.
Working alongside a faculty advisor, your team will tackle the complex business challenge and travel within the United States for three to five days to meet directly with your project sponsors and stakeholders.
Project topics
Students work on projects across industries such as technology, retail, banking, or manufacturing. Business challenges may focus on products, services, operations, strategy development, or broader organizational issues, such as an ethical dilemma leaders face today.
Course structure
Over this eight-week intensive course, you will:
- Weeks 1 – 2: Meet your project sponsor, learn your business challenge, gather data, and prepare for the on-site visit
- Week 3: Visit the organization, refine the project scope, engage stakeholders, and finalize the project work plan
- Weeks 4 – 7: Conduct data analysis and develop innovative recommendations in collaboration with your sponsor
- Week 8: Present final recommendations to the business
