Program Objectives

The design of MGMT 653 is truly integrative and stresses a team approach, involving all participants: sponsoring organizations, students and faculty.  The purpose of this collaboration is to:

• Share resources between Wharton and sponsoring organizations. Students contribute their diverse backgrounds, work experiences and interests, guided by experienced Wharton faculty. Host organizations contribute their firm and industry-specific knowledge and the unique problems and challenges that they present to the student teams.
• Deliver managerially relevant analysis. The requirement of relevance forces student teams to apply their classroom knowledge to the practical concerns of the organizations. At the same time, it offers insights to the managers of the host organization into the problems and challenges they are facing.
• Expose managers to new analysis and problem solving practices.
• Increase students' competencies as leaders in a team environment.
• Create an exciting dialogue between students, who are unhindered by historical precedent, and managers, who understand practical realities.