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Northeastern University Extra Curricular Project

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Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Experiential Network (XN)

XN Administrators

(6)

Timeline

April 20, 2020

Experience start
May 9, 2020

Project Planning Review
May 28, 2020

Draft Deliverable
June 28, 2020

Experience end

Experience

37/1 project matches

Dates set by experience

Preferred companies

Anywhere

Startup, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Incubator, Any

Manufacturing, Business services, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Banking & finance, Hospital, health, wellness & medical

Experience scope

Skills

competitive analysis research project planning analytics data analysis

Learner goals and capabilities

A spring quarter (early April to end of June) course is seeking proposals for several 6-8-week projects with several companies, startups, nonprofits, etc. The organizations need only present their real-world business problems and groups of 3-5 students will select the projects to work on for the term.

Engagement between students and sponsors is customizable, with a one-hour per week recommendation to ensure project progress. All students work virtually so sponsor/company locations are flexible!

Learners

Undergraduate

Any level

50 learners

Project

20 hours per learner

Learners self-assign

Teams of 5

Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverables could include:

(1) Market Research Projects:

• White paper with analysis and recommendations

• Final project report presentation and supporting documents from the student team (via a virtual webinar format)

(2) Business Development Planning Projects:

• Project plan

• Final project report presentation and supporting documents from the student team (via a virtual webinar format)

(3) Data Analytics Projects:

• Completed data sets towards unique goals, visualizations

• Final project report presentation and supporting documents from the student team (via a virtual webinar format)

Project timeline

April 20, 2020

Experience start
May 9, 2020

Project Planning Review
May 28, 2020

Draft Deliverable
June 28, 2020

Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

(1) Market Research:

• Research a target market segment and/or consumer base for insights into best practices and marketing potential.

• Provide comparative analysis for a given market against other similar entities.

• Include recommendations and examples for business generation and outreach.

• Great for: start-ups, tech, finance, quite literally any type of company!

(2) Business Development Planning:

• Develop a project plan to identify an aspect of your firm’s current practices.

• Research and recommend improved or additional actions to increase business relationships and/or practices.

• Research and recommend additional strategies to develop new practices.

• Indicate suggestions for tools that might help in implementing the plan.

• Great for: early stage start-ups, nonprofits, customer-centric companies, etc.

(3) Data Analytics:

• Compiling, cleaning, processing, warehousing, etc. of any type of data relevant to your operations and your goals.

• Research on data tools and recommendations for how to automate, collect, house, and/or improve your future/ongoing analytics processing needs.

• Great for: healthcare, innovation, regulatory, sales, digital technology-focused companies, etc.

Linked templates

B2C Product Launch to New Market Research Market Expansion Research View all

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

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Commit to a minimum of one-hour per week, over six-eight weeks’ worth of group interactions with your assigned student team remotely. These meetings with you are likely to be question/answer sessions or requests for additional information or clarification based on project content.

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Commitment to providing feedback on project milestones (Project Plan, Draft Deliverable, Final Project Deliverable) and virtual attendance at students’ final project presentation.

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Virtual work engagement with students and provision of all necessary materials in order to set students up for project execution success, including any relevant context, data, examples of deliverables.

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Commit to completing a short formative (midpoint) survey and summative (final) survey for the overseeing experiential learning team at Northeastern University.

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Provide a dedicated contact to answer occasional emails or phone calls to address significant student questions in a timely manner (a 48 hour-response time.)

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Be available for a quick phone call with Northeastern's experiential team to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course and explore additional opportunities for partnership with the University.

Timeline

April 20, 2020

Experience start
May 9, 2020

Project Planning Review
May 28, 2020

Draft Deliverable
June 28, 2020

Experience end

Northeastern University Extra Curricular Project

Timeline

Experience scope

Categories

Skills

Learners

Project timeline

Project Examples

Requirements

Linked templates

Additional company criteria Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Additional company criteria

Timeline

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience: