What is here for participants as Case Consultants?

• Making an impact

You will receive first-hand experience in making an impact at the strategic level of company operation: revealing a challenge, conducting field research, making a company case, and conducting design thinking for solving the company’s challenge

• Investing in your professional portfolio

Perform a Consulting Case for a business relevant to their interests, learn new things for the industry, explore social entrepreneurship, and craft the edge of their personal strategy.

• Getting ready for professional interviews

You’ll receive a ready-to-present portfolio piece, supported with a recommendation letter, as well as a ready-to-share communication pitch for sharing their case consult experience.

What’s in it for community partners as Case Clients?

• The company case

Case clients will receive a company story, shaped around their vision and challenges in a pathway for growth and service.

• Pathway for solving a challenge

The company will receive a pitch that describes a pathway for solving the challenge that the company currently faces. This value will be generated by a multidimensional group of talents and vetted by a professional mentor.

• Connecting with talents

They’ll connect personally and professionally with driven and educated people from around the world.

What’s in it for the Community and City?

• For the community of Boston

They’ll invest in an inclusive economy. Synchronize the personal passions and professional interests of Boston’s residents, enriching the diversity and vibrancy of local businesses. And Extending a ‘blanket of love” across the city.

• For the City of Boston

The project directly contributes to the goal of “Enhanced Neighborhoods”, indicated as one of the three areas of growth and enhancement. Specifically, the project contributes to the following: “Improvement of the public realm and contextually sensitive development, paired with anti-displacement policies, will improve neighborhood vitality, services, and affordability while affirming each neighborhood’s distinct identity” (Imagine Boston page 24). The project will not only contribute to this effort but also provide a collection of inspirational real-life stories (cases)  about cooperation between ethnic communities and graduate students and  for a better Boston

1. Connection between Case Consultants and Case Clients

Personal Level of Connection: Introduction to the course / Meet and greet with your team and other case consultants.

Personal Trust: Meeting with Case clients / Collecting and working on the data for the company case.

Social Level of Connection: Rigor and Methodology / Constructing the plan in getting the market and industry data

2. Making a Company Case

Professional Trust: Company case hands-on / Market and Industry Research  / Case analysis.

3. Professional and Excitement Levels

Professional Level of Connection: Ideation for solution / Meeting with a mentor / Team’s idea for a solution

Professional Level of Connection: Generating value / Working on prototype and testing / Create a PPT for case client

Excitement Level of Connection: Exciting Stakeholders / Presentation of Generated Value.

4. Capitalizing on the Experience. Making Your Voice Heard.

Getting ready for connecting with stakeholders beyond this experience Reflection: Consulting Case as my stepping stone Case Brief for a professional portfolio Communication piece for emails to potential employer.