Consulting to Business

Catalog description

This course is a study of the history and theory of management consulting from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with hands-on techniques and skills of the consulting process imparted via an actual business consulting project. Students will deliver individual and group consulting assignments to a local business client based at the CLU Center for Entrepreneurship or other local business sectors in LA and Ventura County. Topics can range from Business Plan Development, Channel Strategy development and implementation, Operational Improvements, Organizational Design and Optimization, etc. The project will have complexity that covers several areas in a business and is worth of being considered an MBA Capstone effort. This course enables students to apply the academic theory of management consulting to practical business operations.