For the fourth consecutive year, Babson students will team up with Swiss students from the University of Applied Sciences in St. Gallen as part of the Joint Management Consulting Field Experience Program. Global Program Services is pleased to announce the recent placement of six undergraduate students on two J-MCFE consulting teams for the spring 2006 semester. J-MCFE is a proven team-based academic consulting program, with an international component, which allows students to apply the analytical skills they have learned in the classroom to a company’s current business issue.

This year’s teams will evaluate market entry/potential in the US, and make strategic recommendations to the participating sponsor companies, Trafag AG Sensors & Controls and KünzlerBachmann Direct Marketing. The Babson students will be traveling to Switzerland for a week in January to meet their counterparts from St. Gallen’s University of Applied Sciences, and together the student teams will begin work on their semester long projects. During their time in Switzerland, the teams will also visit their client sponsors, negotiate their engagement contracts and outline their work plan for the semester. The project concludes when the Swiss students and client sponsors come to Babson in April, at which time students complete and deliver their final presentation to Trafag and KünzlerBachmann.

The Babson students on the Trafag team will work under the faculty direction of Professor David Hennessey, and The KünzlerBachmann team will work under the faculty direction of Professor Anne Roggeveen, both with the Marketing Division. Competitive in nature, the JMCFE program received 21 student applications for six positions. Students were evaluated and selected on the basis of their application, interview, resume, a 15 minute presentation given to a panel of evaluators, their GPA (3.0 or above), coursework, faculty references, relevant background experiences and global mindset.

Congratulations to following undergraduate students who have been selected to participate in the JMCFE Program over the spring semester:

KünzlerBachmann

Maria Orejuela

Matthew Brenninkmeijer

Alina Muzykina

Trafag AG Sensors & Controls

Alan Lombardi

Gregory Neufeld

Nils Seebach