Action-Based Learning Projects:
MAP & Consulting Studio
Bucharest
Bucharest
2025
Full-Time MBA MAP
Brand Positioning and Communication
Collaborate with Michigan Ross MBA students to enhance our multi-faceted program (“A Brighter Future for Vulnerable Youth”) and its online platform (“Career Compass”) by conducting a (brief) strategic program review, optimizing program design and developing a comprehensive marketing and fundraising strategy to improve beneficiary outcomes, increase visibility and attract sustainable corporate and donor partnerships.
Faculty Advisors
Mulanje
Mulanje
2024
Full-Time MBA MAP
Strategic Roadmapping
Identify the critical metrics for data collection, provide a framework for analysis of said information, and tie these insights into an operational fundraising plan that supports their 3-year strategy.
Faculty Advisors
Santa Clara, Beijing, Shanghai
Santa Clara, Beijing, Shanghai
2016
Full-Time MBA MAP
The company called on a MAP team to develop a go-to-market strategy for a game console in China, the world’s largest gaming market. The team’s extensive market research included visits to five cities, interviews with various groups of stakeholders, and review of company documents and online sources. Ultimately, they developed a specific recommendation on how to most effectively position the product while building toward future growth.
Virtual
Virtual
2024
MM Consulting Studio
Strategic Roadmapping
Create a strategic business plan for Therapy Ranch in Southeast Michigan, outlining short-term 1 year, and long -term goals, 5 year. Help establish a sustainable urban horse facility with a primary offering of Equine Assisted Mental Health Services.
Faculty Advisors
Albion, MI
Albion, MI
2024
Executive MBA MAP
Go-To-Market Strategy
Caster Concepts, a Midwest manufacturer of industrial casters and wheels, aims to develop a disruptive go-to-market strategy that bypasses the traditional distribution channels. Currently, these channels include specialty caster distributors and large multi-line distributors such as Fastenal, Grainger, and Motion Industries. The EMBA team will develop a new operations strategy that examines different direct to companies and customers options. The team will assess all aspects of Caster Concepts manufacturing operations, understand it’s sales processes, and look at how AI could change the distribution strategy.
Note: The CEO is an EMBA grad who was a MD that sold his medical practice to takeover this company and has successfully grown the company over the years. It’s a great story of transition and owner your own company too.
Note: The CEO is an EMBA grad who was a MD that sold his medical practice to takeover this company and has successfully grown the company over the years. It’s a great story of transition and owner your own company too.
Faculty Advisors