Business Start-Up Consulting Project

3 units

This course of Joint EMBA degree of IIT Bombay - Washington University in St Louis is designed to provide EMBA candidates with an opportunity to engage in active and functional learning through work on actual, real-world, team-based projects. This course will help implement the learning of completed EMBA modules and past experience of Sr executives focused on developing/refining entrepreneurial mindset through experiential real-world projects. This course will help develop management-consulting competencies and polish their critical thinking, project management, data analysis, report writing, diplomacy and leadership skills. Critical learning outcomes include developing entrepreneurial mindset and displaying agile leadership within diverse and unfamiliar settings. In this module, participants will be working towards the actual deliverables that generate tangible results for the client and its organization. This ensures that the clients receive high-quality work on their underlying problem/opportunity. The reasonable expectation is that students spend 2+ hours per week on the client work.