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Every fall Dalhousie University's Faculty of Management offers an innovative graduate class called Management Without Borders (MWB). Each year students are asked to work on group projects with host organizations across Nova Scotia. This exercise provides students with the chance to apply the theory/skills they learn in class to real-world challenges. For partner organizations this is an excellent opportunity to have creative, bright and determined graduate students take on a project that would benefit your organization.
 
Jenny Baechler, course coordinator for Management Without Borders, is recruiting organizations interested in partnering on these annual MWB student projects.
 
As MWB students are all in graduate management programs, the course aims to provide them with projects that will give them the opportunity to develop and hone technical management skills and/or explore topics at a level appropriate for graduate students. Each project team is composed of students from a diverse set of programs (business administration, information and library studies, public administration, marine management and resource/environmental management); consequently, appropriate projects are those that require the mobilization of multiple skill sets. A list of potential project topics includes (but is not limited to):

• program evaluation
• policy recommendations
• marketing & communication plans
• feasibility assessments for new programs, initiatives or business ventures
• general research, synthesis and recommendations
• workshop development

Projects begin on the first day of class, September 11, and must be wrapped up by December 11, 2015. In order for projects to be included in the 2015 MWB course, initial project ideas and/or expressions of interest by host organizations should be submitted to Jenny no later than Friday, June 26.
 
For more information on working with one of the MWB student groups or to discuss any preliminary questions you may have, please contact:
 
Jenny Baechler
Management Without Borders (MWB) Course Coordinator
Faculty of Management
902-494-3321
jenny.baechler@dal.ca