Action-Based Learning Projects:
MAP & Consulting Studio
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2023
BBA Capstone
Brand Positioning and Communication
As a Mission driven company, we would like the U of M Team to develop a recommendation and plan to bring the Company Mission and Guiding Principles “forward” as a critical component of our positioning in the market as a company and a brand in a way that balances it with the need to make Operating Income as a “for-profit” company.
Faculty Advisors
St. Paul, MN
St. Paul, MN
2024
Executive MBA MAP
Go-To-Market Strategy
The focus of the project will be a strategic repositioning of our EMBLEM S-ICD (subcutaneous implantable defibrillator) in light of the Modular CRM system (S-ICD coupled with the EMPOWER Leadless Pacemaker) coming in 2025. Key question to answer: How do we go-to-market with this strategic repositioning of S-ICD?
Faculty Advisors
London, UK
Tel Aviv Israel
Louisville, KY, USA
Grand Rapids, MI
Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Detroit, Northville, and Lansing
Detroit, Northville, and Lansing
2025
Full-Time MBA MAP
Strategic Roadmapping
The project team will work to develop a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at helping the State of Michigan cultivate a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem around Life Sciences. This initiative will involve assessing the current landscape of entrepreneurship within the state, identifying key stakeholders, and determining the resources needed to support new and existing businesses.
The plan will focus on creating a supportive environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and growth among entrepreneurs. It will include recommendations for enhancing access to funding, improving mentorship opportunities, and facilitating connections between startups and established companies.
The plan will focus on creating a supportive environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and growth among entrepreneurs. It will include recommendations for enhancing access to funding, improving mentorship opportunities, and facilitating connections between startups and established companies.
Faculty Advisors
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
2024
Executive MBA MAP
Go-To-Market Strategy
Bunafr is launching one of it’s kind first intelligent home coffee roasting machine for coffee lovers to roast coffee exactly to their liking at the push of a button. The roaster comes with green coffee bean subscriptions from award winning farms across the world. Customer’s get truly personalized and freshest coffee with full of flavors and farmers get much higher margins from the cost per cup as we have removed the waste in the supply chain. All of this is enabled by the patent pending hardware and software tech.
As we are creating a new category in the kitchen appliance or coffee space, we need genius go to market plan and growth plan from year 1 to year 3 to create a lifestyle, and sustainable brand and be identified as the Uber of Taxis and create ripples to disrupt arguably world’s second most traded commodity - coffee.
As we are creating a new category in the kitchen appliance or coffee space, we need genius go to market plan and growth plan from year 1 to year 3 to create a lifestyle, and sustainable brand and be identified as the Uber of Taxis and create ripples to disrupt arguably world’s second most traded commodity - coffee.
Faculty Advisors