MBA Consulting Project

Theseus-EDHEC MBA

Every spring, participants in the Theseus-EDHEC MBA Programme complete their course with a consulting project at a client's site. The consulting project, conducted under the supervision of an EDHEC faculty member, enables students to apply their new-found MBA knowledge and knowledge gained from prior work experience to a meaningful and relevant activity. Projects are sponsored by business organisations, and provide a service to the firms involved as well as an opportunity for MBA participants to learn.

Given that MBA participants typically put in 60 hours of work per week, each participant is expected to invest some 480 hours in the project. In a typical team of 4 participants, the amount of time devoted to a project may total around 1920 hours. Theseus MBA participants come from around the globe.

Although Theseus is based in France, non-French participants generally represent more than 85% of the class. With an average age of 32, Theseus MBA participants are individuals with significant professional experience (5 to 10 years), recognized for their leadership potential.

testimonials

Product Manager for Multimedia and Telephony, Ericsson, Norway
Anthony Davis

"We felt that the consulting project significantly contributed to our understanding of the Intranet market. The group quickly reached an understanding of our requirements and delivered a comprehensive market overview. We were impressed with the professional manner in which the project was managed."

Manager CRM, IBM Global Services, Europe, Middle East, Africa
Pierre I. Pignal

"The Theseus-EDHEC MBA students from helped IBM Global Services better understand the strengths and weaknesses of its Network Outsourcing strategy. Their insights and recommendations were extremely useful to our Network Services business here in the European marketplace."

Senior Manager, External Services, Amadeus SAS, Sophia Antipolis, France
Francois Guichard

"We were impressed by their autonomy although we naturally had to provide some support by giving them weekly guidelines and facilitating their contact with the key players. They quickly caught on to the crux of the matter and finally produced an excellent report that was presented to the management to allow us to enter an operational phase."

Managing Director, SEMA Consulting Telecoms
Hubert Tardieu

"The MBA consulting team worked with members of SEMA's internal group from Paris and London on a critical strategic segmentation and assessment project. I was impressed with their ability to quickly grasp issues, determine a course of action, and prepare a final report that not only satisfied the project objectives but enabled us to move quickly into a turbulent market."

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Project Management

Duration:
9 weeks in 2 parts:

Phase 1: (1 week in April)
Problem and Issue definition, budgeting, and definition of key dates.

Phase 2: (8 weeks May/June)
Research and methodology design, analysis of the business context, documentary research, identification of organisations and individuals to interview, planning of field research. Desk, library, web-based documentary research, on-site and online interviews, analysis, identification of key solutions, preparation of report, final choice of the material solutions and recommendations to be presented to the faculty coach and sponsor company.