*Within a student association or club, a team of senior or MBA students will carry out a specific project for your business or nonprofit. For startups, small businesses and nonprofits in need of advice, research and outside perspective, you won't get a better value for your money.

*Within a senior or MBA course, student teams will spend up to 200 hours working on a specific challenge you face. Professors with both industry and academic experience act as a coach for the team. At the end of the project, the team will give you a presentation and written report with their findings and recommendations. These projects are perfect for a mid-sized or small business, as well as a large nonprofit. Because students get a grade for their work and not a paycheck, you're likely to pay 3 times as much for the equivalent amount of work from a consultant.

*A select number of our universities offer the capstone consulting project - the culmination of the MBA program. As a final project for their program a consulting team of experienced MBA's (some of whom were former consultants themselves) will spend up to 600 hours solving a strategic problem for your business. Each team is supervised by either faculty with deep industry experience or professional consultants. These select schools have carried out projects for clients such as Microsoft, WalMart, Intel, Pepsico and Old Navy, including hundreds of mid-sized companies. You're likely to pay up to 5-10 times as much for the equivalent work from a consulting firm. These projects have been heralded by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek.