Action-Based Learning Projects:
MAP & Consulting Studio
Dallas, TX
Dallas, TX
2025
Full-Time MBA MAP
Market Analysis and Assessment
Strategic Roadmap for Private Social Membership Clubs. With a goal to have 25-30 within 5 years, what are the ideal cities and locations in those cities. Project would include identifying the key attributes and demographics that are working currently and additional opportunities. We would like a strategic plane of expansion guiding our locations over the next 3-5 years.
Faculty Advisors
Southfield, MI
Southfield, MI
2024
Weekend MBA MAP
Market Analysis and Assessment
The project aims to analyze how electric vehicles (EVs) affect the aftermarket sector, including shifts in parts and services, market dynamics of key sub-segments, and investment opportunities for our private equity clients.
Faculty Advisors
India
India
2022
Online MBA
Go-To-Market Strategy
Poornatha has successfully developed two training programs for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in India: asynchronously delivered program that is offered to large numbers, serving thousands of SMEs and a more interactive program offered to 30 people at a time. An entrepreneur in Vietnam is working with Poornatha to extend one or both of these offerings to SMEs in Vietnam.
Faculty Advisors
Virtual
Virtual
2024
MM Consulting Studio
Market Analysis and Assessment
Understanding healthcare utilization patterns and gaps in care for urban Native American populations in southeast Michigan with an FQHC and urban Indian Health Service clinic in southwest Detroit.
Monrovia
Monrovia
2025
Full-Time MBA MAP
Strategic Roadmapping
TRIBE is a five-year-old social enterprise in Liberia, focused on improving learning outcomes and building a novel an ecosystem that complements and enhances the existing educational opportunities for high school students. The goal is to help ensure these young people develop skills valued by potential employers and that, once employed, they become valued employees.
This proposal seeks to collaborate with the Michigan Ross team to develop a five-year strategic plan (framework) based on a careful analysis of TRIBE’s learning journey to date and its capabilities to bridge foundational learning gaps for in current high school education. The goal would be to revisit TRIBE’s unique value proposition for the Liberian school system, develop an action-based operational plan and use this work to attract increased financial and strategic resources to scale organizational operations. The TRIBE leadership plans to be deeply engaged with the students on the process as it is critical to long-term organizational success.
This proposal seeks to collaborate with the Michigan Ross team to develop a five-year strategic plan (framework) based on a careful analysis of TRIBE’s learning journey to date and its capabilities to bridge foundational learning gaps for in current high school education. The goal would be to revisit TRIBE’s unique value proposition for the Liberian school system, develop an action-based operational plan and use this work to attract increased financial and strategic resources to scale organizational operations. The TRIBE leadership plans to be deeply engaged with the students on the process as it is critical to long-term organizational success.
Faculty Advisors