How to Manage Student Consulting Projects: A Practical Guide for Project Advisors

Weintraub, Joseph R.; Lee, George A.; MacCormack, Arline A.

ISBN 10: 1789907829 / ISBN 13: 9781789907827

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Manage Student Consulting Projects: A Practical Guide for Project Advisors
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789907829
• ISBN 13: 9781789907827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

How to Manage Student Consulting Projects describes the key principles and tools needed by project advisors to manage student consulting projects in an academic setting. The authors highlight different approaches for managing student consulting teams, including an innovative model in which graduate students manage undergraduates. This model of experiential learning suggests that project advisors should include reflection of learning as a key outcome for any student consulting project. The book also emphasizes the importance of evaluating both team and individual performance in a project's overall success, and data are shown on the positive impact that student teams have had on clients.

In addition to offering strategies that project advisors can use to improve project performance, the book provides information for program administrators and deans, as well as project managers in non-academic settings, to help in the development and running of project-based learning.

About the Author

Joseph R. Weintraub, Ph.D., Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Management Consulting Field Experience Program, George A. Lee, Ph.D., Executive in Residence of the Management Consulting Field Experience Program and Arline A.MacCormack, M.A., Associate Director of Experiential Programs, Babson College, US