TL;DR: A management consulting project can be used as the capstone educational experience to provide students with the opportunity to solve actual management problems as discussed by the authors, where students can develop and test their skills in identification of problem, development of a study methodology, gathering of data, communication of results, and in the management of a consulting project.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the processes and conclusions of an experimental undergraduate consulting course, which was initiated as an experiential experiment intending to capstone undergraduate business administration education and link campus and career, and campus and community.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to report the processes and conclusions of an experimental undergraduate consulting course. The course was initiated as an experiential experiment intending to capstone undergraduate business administration education and link campus and career, and campus and community. The course received very flattering evaluations from both community business clients and student consultants, thus encouraging additional development at the undergraduate level.