The Experiential Student Team Consulting Process: A Guidebook for Students, Clients, & Instructors

This book provides a ground-breaking model for the experiential team consulting process. It is a pedagogically sound integrative process model with clear examples from a number of award-winning engagements. Experiential courses are multi-disciplined learning experiences and this book will be most helpful for the integrative demands of such a course. Our model allows for a conceptual understanding of the consulting process and the interactions between and among students, the team, the client, and the instructor; and provides a hands-on guide to completing the consulting project.

Ron Cook is Professor, College of Business Administration, Rider University, where he develops and teaches upper-level undergraduate and MBA courses in team-based small business consulting, entrepreneurship/small business, and new venture planning. He directs Rider's Center for Entrepreneurship, and the entrepreneurial studies program. He heads Rider's Small Business Institute, where his student consulting teams have earned multiple awards for excellence, including national honors in 1999, 2002 and 2006. Ron brings his 20 plus years of consulting and teaching experience to the development of this text. Ron is also on the board of the national Small Business Institute, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, and is a former member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Small Business Strategy. He has published a number of award-winning papers on small business and entrepreneurship, and is also member of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Paul Belliveau is Principal of Paul Belliveau Associates, which provides strategic business planning and new product development counsel to small businesses. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Rider University, and served as full-time Director of the MBA Team Consulting Program, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University. His student consulting teams from both institutions have won awards. Paul is a member and former President of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), and is Co-Editor of the PDMA toolbook series on new product development. He has published a number of articles on experiential student team consulting, small business and entrepreneurship. Paul is currently Associate Editor of The Journal of Small Business Strategy and serves on the Editorial Board of The Small Business Institute Journal. He is a member and former Vice President of the Small Business Institute? and belongs to the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.