Description:

MBAC498, Action Learning, is a 2nd-year MBA course designed to encourage the integration across functions of analytical tools, knowledge and perspective gained during the first year in the core curriculum, together with the summer internship experience, as students work on action learning assignments for a corporate, health care or nonprofit organization.

These organizations act as volunteer corporate partners who sponsor the program and create an experiential space that tests the school's curriculum and students' abilities to work through a real-life project with loosely-defined problems and set dead-lines. Students are challenged to put‘theories in practice’ – while remaining under the guidance of Weatherhead faculty "coaches".

The Action Learning site acts as a "collaborative" contact point shared by students, corporate sponsors and faculty coaches.