Student groups employ statistical methods to analyze quantitative and qualitative financial data, including bank communications, financial news, and bankruptcy reports. Students then draw conclusions about real-world financial implications, such as factors that increase financial risk and how news media might impact market dynamics.

Students complete this course in the first year of the MBA program. They come from diverse backgrounds with a wide variety of concentrations including Consulting, HR, Strategic Management, Marketing, Operations Management, Engineering and more. Most students have 5 years of work experience and can produce tangible outputs. 

Students in the BCom program complete this course in their second or third year at McGill. Students come from diverse backgrounds with a wide variety of concentrations including Strategic Management, Business Analytics, Marketing, Operations Management, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior, Finance and HR, and Sustainability. Some have completed internships in these fields.  

Students will de-construct a complex business situation, identify the key issues and problems facing the organization in question, propose alternative courses of action, recognize the trade-offs involved in these alternatives, and make concrete recommendations backed by solid reasoning. Companies will have the chance to work and meet with tomorrow's leaders at a prestigious university institution. They may also obtain strategic advice and research analyses from eager young adults at no cost.