Bridging to Practice: Consulting as a Process 5 credits

When organisations bring their toughest challenges, your role is clear, solve them! This capstone course helps you develop from student to consultant, bridging academic knowledge with professional consulting practice through two experiential pathways customised to your future career goals. You can choose one of two paths, either a client project or an internship. Client project: If you choose this path, you will join forces with other students, forming a cross-disciplinary team where expertise from economics and a range of focus areas within business can be combined. Together you will solve a complex challenge facing a real organisation. You will interact with company representatives, understand and diagnose problems, conduct in-depth applied analysis, and deliver strategic recommendations. This pathway supports your professional profile, developing your consulting skills in a highly supported setting. You learn through engagement with peers, faculty interactions, and online or in person meetings with the case company acting as your client. Internship: If you choose this path, you will join an organisation of your choice as a consulting intern. You will be responsible for identifying and getting in touch with an organisation that can offer you a relevant assignment. During the internship you should independently manage a defined project, build client relationships, and deliver actionable recommendations under the guidance of a supervisor assigned by the organisation. This pathway emphasises autonomy and real-world responsibility. It challenges you to use applied analysis for delivering business-relevant results and manage expectations independently from the outset. Both of these pathways require you to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical application, unfold ambiguity, synthesise information, and deliver solutions through applied and critical analysis and reflection, leading to actionable recommendations. You'll interact with industry practitioners, observe organisational challenges firsthand, and build essential consulting skills.