Students can complete a substantial consulting project for your organization over the placement period. We suggest providing a starting project, but as the placement goes on there may be other duties or projects the student is asked to complete as well. Providing a central project creates structure for the internship, and gives the student (and company) a tangible goal.

Students from the Maple League of Universities (the consortium of Acadia, Bishop's, Mount Allison and St. Francis Xavier universities Business programs can complete projects for a range of business functions, including strategy, operations, and marketing. All four universities have entrepreneurship or venture capital courses already embedded in the curriculum of their business schools. Project examples may include, but are not limited to:

• Strategy - Develop an implementation plan for entering a new market; develop a go-to-market strategy for new products or services; identify new funding and grant opportunities and write proposals.
• Operations - Recommend process improvements or redesign processes; develop improvements to supply chain processes to be more responsive to changes in demand; introduce quality assurance into internal processes; redesign incentive structures to improve employee performance and engagement.
• Marketing - Complete a full customer, competitor, market, and environmental analysis; complete a marketing strategy review; design a new marketing strategy (product, place, price, and promotion); conduct overhaul of branding or communication strategy.
• Sales - Design a new/improved prospecting process for your sales team; design a new/improved pricing or service structure.
• Talent - Design a new/improved recruitment process; develop a diversity and inclusion strategy; design a new/improved employee engagement program with survey mechanisms.
• Finance - Design new/improved accounting processes; identify opportunities to streamline costs.