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Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Timeline
  • July 5, 2020
    Experience start
  • July 15, 2020
    Project Planning Review
  • August 29, 2020
    Draft Deliverable
  • September 2, 2020
    Experience end
Experience
14/14 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Data analysis Market research Marketing strategy
Skills
business development business strategy marketing strategy data analysis research
Learner goals and capabilities

A summer quarter 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

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
  • July 5, 2020
    Experience start
  • July 15, 2020
    Project Planning Review
  • August 29, 2020
    Draft Deliverable
  • September 2, 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.

Additional company criteria

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

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