One of Babson’s fundamental approaches to developing well-rounded managers with practical business experience is the Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) program. While similar to the MCFE program, JMCFE takes the consulting experience global through project assignments with international corporate sponsors. In the JMCFE program, teams are comprised of Babson graduate students and graduate students from a partner institution outside of the United States; however, in some instances, the team may be solely Babson students working directly with an international corporate sponsor. Projects are conducted during both fall and spring semester over a period of approximately 13-15 weeks. Each project begins with travel to the partner institution and/or company site—during this period students will begin the engagement process. At the end of the semester the partner institution’s students/adviser and/or client sponsor will travel to Babson at which time the JMCFE team presents their findings and recommendations to their sponsor company in a written report and an oral presentation.

Past projects have worked with partner institutions and clients in Sweden, Germany, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

Project Emphasis

Projects deal with current concerns of sponsor organizations in one or more functional areas. The unique opportunity for a company to look at a market outside of their own is an attractive proposition. Consulting projects could include:

• Marketing plan development
• Marketing strategy/analysis 
• Industry analysis 
• Business development 
• Benchmark/Competitive analysis

Program Student Application and Placement Timeline

An information session will be held approximately 6 weeks prior to the end of the prior semester*. Immediately following the information session the application and interview process will open and will remain open for seven days. One week after the interviews have been completed placements will be announced via email. Students are required to confirm their placement within 24 hours. All travel arrangements will be made once all team members have accepted. *Availability of projects is dependent on the corporate sponsor’s semester preference – hence there is the possibility that all projects will be offered in the spring or fall semester only.

Program Timeline:

Spring Semester	Fall Semester	Project Travel/Work
Early January	Late August	Student team and advisor travel to partner school and/or sponsor company. · This is an opportunity for the Babson students to meet the contact at the sponsor company.  · The team discusses the project scope with the client and develops the engagement contract. · Babson students are also exposed to cultural aspect of country they visit.
February – April	September – November	Project work. · Team members and advisor have weekly meetings. · Virtual meetings via telephone or videoconferencing with client as established in engagement contract.
Late April/Early May	Early December	Final Project work and Presentations. · Sponsor company contacts travel to Babson for final presentation. · Findings and recommendations are presented both orally and in writing to advisor and sponsor company.

Course Credit

MBA J-MCFE courses are 3 credits.*

*J-MCFE can be credited towards the experiential component of the global management concentration.

For more information on the MBA JMCFE please contact:
Dan Gormley at dgormley@babson.edu or781-239-5244.