| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY • HELLER MBA PROGRAM 2011 Team Consulting Projects |
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| Client | Project Description |
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buildOn |
Developing an integrated, cost-effective approach to tracking alumni for buildOn's after school youth service and empowerment programs. |
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Groundwork USA |
Building Groundwork USA's national capacity to provide critical support to the Groundwork Federated Network of Organizations. |
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Oxfam America |
Investigating potential revisions to Oxfam’s Saving for Change program to incorporate financial sustainability into the current model by analyzing and comparing current program costs and work process design to comparable organizations. |
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Preserve |
Creating a growth and strategic plan for the Gimme5 program at Preserve, a for-profit company with a social mission to turn recycled plastics into usable household items. |
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Smoky House Center |
Analyzing the feasibility of mission advancement and financial sustainability through land-leasing for a farm in Danby, VT. |
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SUPPORTbrokers |
Creating an effective marketing strategy for SUPPORTbrokers, a fee-for-service initiative of The Arc of Massachusetts, that provides individualized planning for the elderly and adults with disabilities. |
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Beth Israel |
Evaluating operational capacity for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Orthopedics Department to determine cost effective measures to optimize patient accessibility. |
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American MoJo |
Designing an operations plan for MoJo's expansion to Oakland, California, including analyzing its manufacturing production process, supply chain, demand, personnel, and the implementation of its social mission, to determine how best to streamline operations across multiple locations. |
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FloDesign Wind Turbine |
Performing a market entry analysis for a for-profit clean-energy startup, including analyzing the economics of entering one specific market and producing the optimal entry strategy for entering that market. |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY • HELLER MBA PROGRAM 2010 Team Consulting Projects |
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| Client | Project Description |
| Roxbury Prep Charter School | Assessing the school’s current human resource practices and policies and recommending how to (1) streamline the hiring process to be more efficient, (2) create formal partnerships to ensure a qualified work force, and (3) best utilize the internal teacher training program to support growth by recruiting, training and retaining a talented teacher and administrative work force. |
| The Providence Granola Project |
Assisting a young social enterprise that employs refugees in Providence, RI with the development of a growth strategy that addresses information systems refinement and integration, marketing research for expansion into new distribution channels, and operations and financial analysis associated with relocating to a new facility. |
| The Leaders through Education, Action, and Hope Program (LEAH), a program of the Boston Public Schools' DELTAS (Department of Extended Learning Time, Afterschool & Services) | Revising the program’s mission statement and determining a strategic vision for the next 3-5 years drawing on input from key stakeholders through focus groups, interviews, and surveys to strengthen programming and reinforce the program’s vision of youth leadership; performing comprehensive research of external trends occurring in the youth services and out-of-school time program fields. |
| New Entry Sustainable Farming Project |
Creating a diversified fundraising plan to include individual donor and foundation cultivation strategies to supplement restricted funding from USDA grants. |
| buildOn | Designing an impact evaluation framework for buildOn's U.S. based after school community service programs and providing recommendations for implementing the results of this evaluation; developing indicators to measure program impact on youth empowerment. |
| St. Anthony Free Medical Clinic | Conducting an environmental assessment of the relevant trends affecting the clinic and identifying potential organizational models and the corresponding financial and managerial implications in an effort to help the clinic develop a strategic position and service vision for the next 3-5 years. |
| Healthworks Foundation | Developing a comprehensive strategic vision that encompasses organizational structure and human resources, budgeting and fundraising, marketing and brand image, and board recruitment and development, to strengthen the alignment between the Healthworks Foundation and its parent corporation. |
| Hebrew Rehabilitation Center | Determining whether Hebrew Rehabilitation Center (HRC) should expand its facility by 39 sub-acute care beds by performing a comprehensive demand analysis, testing current operating assumptions, and facilitating the development of a strategic service vision for future expansion. |
| 2009 TEAM CONSULTING PROJECTS | |
| Client | Project Title |
| Ideo |
Evaluating Social Impact at Ideo |
| Waltham Partnership for Youth, Inc. |
Building a Sustainable Coalition Model: Addressing Bullying, ATOD and Mental Health Problems in Waltham |
| Public Partnerships | Self-Directed Healthcare for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness |
| ACCION USA | Increasing Internet Loan Disbursements |
| Greenlight Fund | Greenlight Fund: Looking Back and Looking Forward |
| Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiovascular Center | Shapiro Cardiovascular Center: Strategic Assessment of Cardiovascular Service Line Programs |
| Wellesley at Home | Launching an Aging in Place Community in Wellesley: A Business Plan for Wellesley at Home |
| Kaya Children International |
Designing a Start Up Donor Cultivation Program |
