MBA Consulting Project

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable

Teaching Methods

This unit is a project-oriented course in which students work as teams of consultants to support a given client to solve a real business challenge. Group of students work together on a given project for the whole duration of the course, in direct contact with the client organization and with the supervision of a professor. 

Learning Outcomes

Objective:

Provide students a direct contact with an organization and an opportunity to solve a real business challenge, developing consulting competencies.

Competencies:

At the end of the course, students are expected to have a solid knowledge the consulting process. They should be able to mobilize and apply management knowledge acquired during the rest of the MBA program and to solve a business challenge in a structured and coordinated manner.

Learning goals (LG):

LG1 - Learn an approach for problem solving that cuts across industry, functions and business size

LG2 – Develop competences in working proficiently with management consulting toolkit (e.g., problem solving, PowerPoint, Excel) and developing soft skills (e.g., communication skills, client counselling)

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Management consulting in context and how it adds value

2. Identification and articulation of organizational challenges

3. Issue based problem solving

4. Working with clients and teams. The “soft skills”

5. Data collection techniques

6. Data analysis

7. Developing solutions

8. Structured Communication

9. Preparing project reports and client presentations 

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro Marcelo Amado Garcia da Rocha Torres

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Wickman, L. & Wilcock, J. 2016. Management Consulting: Delivering an Effective Project. Pearson.

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Osterwalder, Alexander. and Pigneur, Yves. Business Model Generation. Wiley, 2013.

Rasiel, Ethan. The McKinsey Way. McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Martin, Roger and Lafley, A. G.. Playing to Win, how strategy really works. Harvard Business Review, 2013.