Students are required to complete a consultancy project.
According to André Cappon, of CBM, a consultancy, Project A worked well enough for after-hours trading.
In fact, for more than half of the programme, fellows are with a client company, undertaking a consultancy project.
Indeed, Oxford Economic Forecasting, a consultancy, projects that, on current economic and demographic trends, the British economy will by 2030 be the biggest in Europe, edging out a more populous Germany.
The school takes part in the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum, a collaboration with the Wharton School on an international consultancy project.
Furthermore, the legacy of a real-world consultancy project on scale modelling of a large flow regulating pond is integrated into the course.
Then, nine months into my MBA, I was selected as one of 13 students to take part in a social impact consultancy project in Johannesburg.
The study on the thermal performance of the air-conditioned buildings of the new research centre of the Brazilian Petroleum Company, in the tropical climate of Rio de Janeiro, was part of a bigger research and consultancy project involving environmental issues.
This is because, in the future-oriented consultancy business, the generation of scientific knowledge, i.e. research in the real sense of the word, is generally not a part of the consultancy project although most clients expect the application of relevant scientific knowledge.
Employed by Syngenta, the world-leading agri-business, the team of business school students, led by a senior tutor, undertook the consultancy project as part of their studies.
I applied an analytical autoethnographic approach and used my own experiences, reflections and memories to construct myself in my writing as an academic and practitioner working within the context of a pro bono public relations consultancy project.
