Wall Street Journal highlights success of Rutgers Business School MBA Team Consulting Program helping small businesses
February 26, 2009
In a recent feature story, The Wall Street Journal highlighted Rutgers Business School’s MBA Team Consulting Program along with the consulting programs of five other top business schools. Businesses are increasingly looking to programs like the MBA Team Consulting Program to find inexpensive and creative solutions for their businesses in the struggling economy. MBA students in the Rutgers Business School program lend a hand to 40 to 50 businesses a year. The MBA Team Consulting Program brings the knowledge and experience of senior MBA students to take on a challenge or problem identified by a client company. Students get the opportunity to sharpen their problem-solving and team-building skills and the sponsoring company receives a detailed report full of insightful analysis and valuable recommendations. In 2008, the MBA students helped the Community FoodBank of New Jersey open a new facility in New Jersey. Paul Belliveau, director of the Rutgers Business School MBA Team Consulting Program, explains that universities are looking for small businesses that have been operating for at least three years and may have "plateaued, so a strategic business plan becomes a growth plan.” The other five schools highlighted in the Wall Street Journal article were Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Miami School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley.Rutgers Business School delivers the business, science, and technology credentials that global employers demand. With real-world experience and experiential learning provided by programs like the MBA Team Consulting Program as part of their business education experience, students are better prepared to enter the corporate world. To date, Rutgers students in the MBA Team Consulting Program have completed more than 1,500 projects for a wide range of clients including Fortune 50 companies, privately held firms, not-for-profits, state agencies, municipalities, and entrepreneurs.For more information on the Rutgers Business School MBA Team Consulting Program, click here . To read the February 23rd Wall Street Journal Article entitled “Class Action,” click here .
