This guide is designed to support students in experiential learning programs such as Babson Consulting Experience (BCE) and Management Field Experience (MFE/MCFE), in which you are assigned a real client to work with to address an issue or opportunity. It can also be used as a resource for public company projects in STR3000 and STR7800.
Research -- especially secondary research -- is a critical component of most of these consulting projects.
At it's core, research in a consulting environment is no different to the research you conduct for a class project or to answer your day-to-day questions: you are given a problem and you design your information-seeking process around it.
However, in programs like BCE and MCFE/MFE, sometimes the problems you are given are quite niche or challenging, and may require you to be more flexible with your process than you were prepared to be. This guide is designed to help you through this, by giving you a framework for thinking about the research process for your team's project, categories of information you might need to seek out, and the resources that Horn Library has to support you through it.
