Crafting Your EDGE

We understand that your career path is more than just a destination – it’s a profound journey of self-discovery and growth. Our programs invite you to dive into the world of case consulting, where you’ll unravel the complexities of real challenges faced by clients and companies. Through this process, you’ll not only develop problem-solving, critical thinking, and strategic analysis skills but also build meaningful connections that foster trust.

Experience advantage and step on a voyage of professional and personal growth like no other.

Your journey begins here.

Level up your case consulting skills.
Craft your edge as an expert

Ready to tackle strategy, problems, build your portfolio, and make a real impact? There are three ways to learn and practice your case consulting skills:

Becoming a Case Consultant (BCC)

The first and easiest stage designed to gently warm up your analytical mind for the world of case consulting. This is where you start, immersing yourself in manageable challenges that lay the groundwork for tackling more complex cases.

See your solutions create real client impact.
Explore diverse industries, broadening sector understanding.
Refine practical problem-solving, strategy, and communication skills.

Making Your Consulting Case (MYCC)

The Making Your Consulting Case, the most advanced among the three. In this phase, you’ll engage in a personalized one-on-one interaction with a client of your choosing, focusing on a company that holds significant importance to you.

Select a meaningful company for a deep connection.
Formulate precise solutions for unique business challenges.
Make an enduring impact with strategic insights and guidance.

BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon

Our second stage- BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon. Collaborate within a team, directly engage with clients, and experience the rapid pace akin to a “Hackathon”. This phase intensifies the pressure, providing a platform to refine your consulting skills further while mastering the art of swift, impactful decision-making.

Work closely with peers for diverse collaboration.
Engage clients for firsthand experience.
Elevate consulting skills and gain confidence.

Build meaningful connections through Crafting Your EDGE

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HERE'S WHAT OUR EDGE CRAFTERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE

Regarding the semester market entry consulting project, I found the experience to be quite unique because I have never been required to conduct a research project before, no less one that involves working with a real company and providing genuine recommendations for its operations and business model. Besides the fact that I was able to apply information that I learned in the class and gained an understanding of how grueling collaboration can be at times in the workplace, I also enhanced my social and professional capital by learning how to apply my acquired knowledge to a realistic business setting, communicate effectively in a business context, and present a convincing analysis for a dilemma faced by a business. What’s next? I plan to utilize this capital by fostering relationships with as many people as possible in a working environment, communicating consistently with those in command, and offering a critical global-minded perspective when dealing with large-scale issues. I hope to implement these skills in my repertoire in order to pursue a successful career in the business sector, and I plan to further investigate world business affairs as well as experiment with my newly acquired competencies in future courses at Northeastern that require realistic evaluations rather than hypothetical solutions.

Joshua / “Threshold.world” Consulting Case

“The process of crafting a personal strategy helped me to gain clarity about the future goals,aspirations, and the steps needed to achieve them. It gave me a clear sense of direction and purpose, which was empowering.”

Bernadette

The Consulting Case in my Capstone course ended up being relevant in ways I didn’t expect. Working through this case brought attention to a different way I want to look at my future. I have always felt that by not fully understanding what I want to do with my career, I wasn’t able to make strides until I figured it out. This project showed me there are far more aspects to success then a defined vision. I understand now that an emergent strategy can truly set me up for success through analyzing my core competencies like we did with the consulting case. In addition, our topic was very relevant to the industry I am going into. Working with a distribution company and analyzing supply chain efficiency in a company will be part of my career moving forward.

Jessi / “Brewery Distributing” Case

The BE-EDGE experience allowed me to find the source of the problem in my family business. After graduation, I went back to my country and applied the knowledge into a practical issue. For example, the consulting case revealed that the culture was critical for my organization – more than other management components. Though I still had a long way to learn and needed to gain more experience, I relied on the BE-EDGE experience to establish myself as a transformational force. I introduced a task force effort to transform the culture, and together with my team, we made it successfully. The fundamental and practical knowledge we have learned from Dr. Ivy was the greatest power and a lifetime skill for us to be the survivor in the future, and it also helped me establish my own voice as a leader.

Henry / “JL Cambridge International, Inc. (Taiwan branch)” Case

I cannot believe how much I have learned in this course over the last 4 months. Coming into this course, I had no idea what to expect. Throughout my career in D’Amore-McKim business school, I have constantly been studying cases and never would I have thought I would have the opportunity to contribute to a case of my own. I got lucky enough to be working in a group that shared similar interests and differentiated skill sets as myself. Through working with them and learning all the different aspects of this course, I have been able to find my true core competencies and develop a vision for myself moving forward in the future. Also, through this synthesis paper, I have been able to put all these things into writing and make a contract for myself to abide by.

Alark / “MO-TRAX: E-Payments and Ride-Sharing Business in Asia” Case

The most rewarding thing for me was proving to myself that I can do complicated research about the industry I knew nothing about. I was able to communicate with the company’s executives and provide my recommendations based on my theoretical knowledge. I've spent a lot of time researching the industry, the company, and it's a new technological tool to be able to discuss it during the interview and get details for my case. I also realized that I really like to do this kind of project.

Jane / “GrabCAD. Social Marketing Strategy” Case

The BE-EDGE method helped me even after graduation! In my current work, I have applied the same E-D-G-E steps when worked on solving a challenge of the shrinking market share of traditional bonds. This was not a typical consulting project, but the framework and business ideas I use were the same as what I learned in my final project. These frameworks, the importance of crystallizing my focus, understanding clients, and the ability of design thinking were the cornerstones that were useful for any industry and for any business. What’s more important was to use it flexibly and innovatively.

Junte / “Entering the Emerging Market of Convertible Bonds” Project

I have always wanted to be a nonprofit consultant, so this experience served as the perfect opportunity to take what I have learned in my MS in Nonprofit Management program at Northeastern and put it into practice with an organization. I learned the value of listening to leaders of organizations and understanding what is most important to them for their mission and how I can be a part of the solution to their challenges. I learned that in order to change or influence behavior surrounding differences in belief systems, I need to spend a lot of time understanding where they are coming from and why they believe what they do.

Abigail / “Sustainable Development of a Nonprofit Organization for Veterans” Case

The capstone course was very meaningful in enabling me to reflect on my skills and abilities and build attainable goals for my professional development. It provided a vehicle for this process and was an opportunity for me to flex my acquired knowledge as well as stretch my abilities in a "real-life" and tangible way. I was free to explore the impacts of business strategy in the music industry; this made the project more personal and meaningful. In my professional career I have leveraged our The Lilypad capstone project in interviews and it has proven a competitive advantage over other applicants and highlighted my strategic thinking skills.

Noa / “The Lilypad” Case

The most valuable aspect of this experience was the opportunity to help an organization that I love to enhance its business. The most challenging experience was to fully understand the core of the problem, and start writing from it. Putting pieces of information together and connecting them directly to the problem was not an easy task for me. However, at the end, I felt completely satisfied when I realized that I made a big difference in people’s lives just applying what I was studying and writing about. It was the feeling of plenitude of helping people to become better ones, and organizations to develop their business.

Thaissa / “Instituição Beneficente Nosso Lar” Case

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