Action-Based Learning Projects:
MAP & Consulting Studio
Detroit, MI
Detroit, MI
2025
Full-Time MBA MAP
Market Analysis and Assessment
Formulate investment thesis across one of our key sectors (tech-enabled services, digital media, marketing services and IT services industries) in partnership with investment team. Execute primary and secondary industry research, craft initial value creation plans, and identify critical investment opportunities.
Faculty Advisors

Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2023
Full-Time MBA MAP
Operations Enhancements
Create a business plan, with a focus on operational and financial characteristics, for the development of a perioperative transitional pain service to benefit post-surgery patients at risk for poor pain and opioid related outcomes
Faculty Advisors
Albion, MI
Albion, MI
2024
Executive MBA MAP
Go-To-Market Strategy
Caster Concepts, a Midwest manufacturer of industrial casters and wheels, aims to develop a disruptive go-to-market strategy that bypasses the traditional distribution channels. Currently, these channels include specialty caster distributors and large multi-line distributors such as Fastenal, Grainger, and Motion Industries. The EMBA team will develop a new operations strategy that examines different direct to companies and customers options. The team will assess all aspects of Caster Concepts manufacturing operations, understand it’s sales processes, and look at how AI could change the distribution strategy.
Note: The CEO is an EMBA grad who was a MD that sold his medical practice to takeover this company and has successfully grown the company over the years. It’s a great story of transition and owner your own company too.
Note: The CEO is an EMBA grad who was a MD that sold his medical practice to takeover this company and has successfully grown the company over the years. It’s a great story of transition and owner your own company too.
Faculty Advisors

Madurai, India

Madurai, India
2016
Full-Time MBA MAP
Aravind turned to a MAP team for help in pursuing its mission of eradicating needless blindness. Specifically, the nonprofit needed a model of best practices for its chief medical officers to coordinate and improve their many tertiary hospital functions. The MAP team delivered a workable model identifying nine primary functions, 45 sub-functions, and indicators of process efficiency for each.