Consulting is a well-known profession in which professionals offer suggestions to improve a company's current practices. In New Venture Management, students engage in the thought process of how entrepreneurs create and design viable business ideas. As a class exercise, a fairly new business owner invited students into their world and shared problems experienced since creating the business. Using the information learned in the course coupled with critical thinking, students worked in teams and created strategies to assist the entrepreneur. In this presentation, the audience will be presented with the information about this class exercise and the outcome of the student/entrepreneur interaction.
