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Northeastern University Extra Curricular Project

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Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Timeline
  • April 20, 2020
    Experience start
  • May 9, 2020
    Project Planning Review
  • May 28, 2020
    Draft Deliverable
  • June 28, 2020
    Experience end
Experience
37/1 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Startup, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Incubator, Any
Manufacturing, Business services, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Banking & finance, Hospital, health, wellness & medical

Experience scope

Categories
Information technology Data analysis Communications Market research
Skills
competitive analysis research project planning analytics data analysis
Learner goals and capabilities

A spring quarter (early April to end of June) course is seeking proposals for several 6-8-week projects with several companies, startups, nonprofits, etc. The organizations need only present their real-world business problems and groups of 3-5 students will select the projects to work on for the term.

Engagement between students and sponsors is customizable, with a one-hour per week recommendation to ensure project progress. All students work virtually so sponsor/company locations are flexible!

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
50 learners
Project
20 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverables could include:

(1) Market Research Projects:

• White paper with analysis and recommendations

• Final project report presentation and supporting documents from the student team (via a virtual webinar format)

(2) Business Development Planning Projects:

• Project plan

• Final project report presentation and supporting documents from the student team (via a virtual webinar format)

(3) Data Analytics Projects:

• Completed data sets towards unique goals, visualizations

• Final project report presentation and supporting documents from the student team (via a virtual webinar format)

Project timeline
  • April 20, 2020
    Experience start
  • May 9, 2020
    Project Planning Review
  • May 28, 2020
    Draft Deliverable
  • June 28, 2020
    Experience end

Project examples

(1) Market Research:

• Research a target market segment and/or consumer base for insights into best practices and marketing potential.

• Provide comparative analysis for a given market against other similar entities.

• Include recommendations and examples for business generation and outreach.

• Great for: start-ups, tech, finance, quite literally any type of company!

(2) Business Development Planning:

• Develop a project plan to identify an aspect of your firm’s current practices.

• Research and recommend improved or additional actions to increase business relationships and/or practices.

• Research and recommend additional strategies to develop new practices.

• Indicate suggestions for tools that might help in implementing the plan.

• Great for: early stage start-ups, nonprofits, customer-centric companies, etc.

(3) Data Analytics:

• Compiling, cleaning, processing, warehousing, etc. of any type of data relevant to your operations and your goals.

• Research on data tools and recommendations for how to automate, collect, house, and/or improve your future/ongoing analytics processing needs.

• Great for: healthcare, innovation, regulatory, sales, digital technology-focused companies, etc.

Linked templates
B2C Product Launch to New Market Research Market Expansion Research View all

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q1 - Checkbox
    Commit to a minimum of one-hour per week, over six-eight weeks’ worth of group interactions with your assigned student team remotely. These meetings with you are likely to be question/answer sessions or requests for additional information or clarification based on project content.
  • Q2 - Checkbox
    Commitment to providing feedback on project milestones (Project Plan, Draft Deliverable, Final Project Deliverable) and virtual attendance at students’ final project presentation.
  • Q3 - Checkbox
    Virtual work engagement with students and provision of all necessary materials in order to set students up for project execution success, including any relevant context, data, examples of deliverables.
  • Q4 - Checkbox
    Commit to completing a short formative (midpoint) survey and summative (final) survey for the overseeing experiential learning team at Northeastern University.
  • Q5 - Checkbox
    Provide a dedicated contact to answer occasional emails or phone calls to address significant student questions in a timely manner (a 48 hour-response time.)
  • Q6 - Checkbox
    Be available for a quick phone call with Northeastern's experiential team to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course and explore additional opportunities for partnership with the University.