Consulting

Consulting

Leeds School of Business brings together local businesses, business students, and faculty to collaborate in solving business problems important to your organization through project-based work.

Objectives and Benefits

Provide you with a powerful, problem-solving team including our students, faculty and other resources available from the University. In addition we require at least one resource from your organization to act as the project manager.

Provide valuable skills and resources to your organization for important limited-term projects, for a nominal $500 fee.

Engage in projects which provide our students with real-world experience prior to graduation and help you address a specific business problem you either haven’t had the time or resources to tackle.

Create opportunities that will help our students get better jobs and be able to get up to speed much more quickly than a typical new-hire.

Provide a means for employers to see students perform relevant and significant work as an aid to hiring decisions.

Provide an excellent short-term resource when expertise and effort are required, but in house resources are limited.

Next Steps: Getting Your Project Considered

When your organization has a project that could benefit from our program, the process of engaging our student and faculty resources in a formal project is straightforward:

• Complete the Project Request form

If your project is selected, the student team will start work immediately on it.

Herbst Academic Center

Connor Wood, a sophomore at the Leeds School of Business, worked with the University and the Herbst Academic Center to help improve communication between student athletes and professors.

Pepsi Partnering With Leeds Students

Representatives from Pepsi discuss their experience working with Leeds students on a sustainability business project. Local businesses are connected with Leeds School students and faculty through projects based in collaboration and real-world experience. This program provides valuable hands-on learning for college students, as well as a way for companies to find solutions to business problems and find potential new hires.

Frontier Airlines

The students in this Project Management class, teamed with companies to help them improve their business operations through revenue enhancements and/or cost reductions.

Frontier Airlines challenged a group of undergraduate students from the Leeds School of Business to identify the company's social media standing compared with other airlines and how the use of such communication could be improved.