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Family Business Program members are in a unique position to participate in graduate-level practical application studies, serving as live case studies to gain input and solutions to a relevant business constraint or pending opportunity. These projects are designed to give full-time MBA students practical experience, under the supervision of UConn School of Business faculty, to solve real business problems in real business settings with real data, while adding value to family and closely-held firms. Students are required to develop a proposal for the client, negotiate an end-product, execute the proposed assignment, prepare a final report, and present qualitative and quantitative findings and recommendations to the client and faculty member for evaluation and critique.
Projects include, but may not be limited to:
- Technology Integration
- Employee Empowerment
- Supply Chain Management
- Competitive Analysis
- Value Stream Mapping
- Staffing & Scheduling
- Resource Utilization
- Operational Efficiency
- Cycle Times
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- Bottleneck Analysis
- Inventory Modeling
- ABC Analysis
- Standards & Procedures
- Compliance Issues
- Innovation
- Business Plan Development
- Functional Teams
- Change Management
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Studies are carried out through the fields of Operations Management, Management Consulting, Change Management, Social Entrepreneurship and Management of Technological Change and Innovation.
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