Building collaborative engagement
The Office of Business Partnerships at Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business creates and provides solutions to the business challenges of today and the future.
Dedicated Daniels School professionals streamline opportunities for industry partners and alumni to connect with students and faculty beyond the traditional classroom setting. The partnerships office helps companies solve business challenges through consulting-focused experiential learning projects across all business functions via course-based engagements or contracts with our centers.
Applying the power of data to serve industry needs is in the Office of Business Partnerships’ DNA. Moving beyond theory into real problem-solving is a call to action our office takes seriously. We understand organizations large and small face uncertainty, rapid technological changes and the continuous need to train employees and cultivate new talent.
Let’s get started, together.
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There are so many ways we can work together to create and nurture a rewarding partnership that benefits your organization. Explore the opportunities that make up the core of a strategic partnership with Purdue and the Daniels School.
Enhance your organization's leadership capacity by investing in their development through a residential, online or hybrid degree program, certificate courses or a custom offering.
Collaborate with our centers of excellence and expert faculty researchers to gain access to top thought leadership.
Develop future team members while filling your most challenging positions. Your next hire could be that talented intern, a stellar full-time candidate or a transformational executive you meet through a tailored recruitment strategy designed for your company.
Join forces with our expert faculty and top students to create a consulting project that will define and test solutions for your pain points.
Drive industry and academic innovation through board membership, mentoring, guest lectures and curricular guidance.
The company partner, which produces, distributes and sells non-alcoholic (soft drinks, juices) and alcoholic beverages (malt beverages, rum, beer), partnered with the Master of Science Human Resource Management program. The student team designed a DE& I strategic plan to integrate the acquired brewery into Fortune 500 ownership. The team conducted meetings with DE&I leadership craft sites and the surrounding community to gain insight into initiatives, strategies, and definitions for both the conglomerate-owner and craft beer partners. In addition to internal research, the student team investigated and researched external strategies for DE&I from peers and competitors, including benchmarking and SWOT analysis.
Student teams worked on developing a rapid-response Generator Set (Genset) trailer for disaster relief. The Genset trailer would be provided to communities that have lost electricity, due to disasters such as hurricanes, to help them move forward during troubling times.
Students worked with the recreational and wellness center to develop a marketing strategy that will address why there has been a decline in membership and engagement across the university community. The project will explore topics of health, fitness, and wellness behaviors that differ across certain groups and how to best engage them. Students also examined local competition from off-campus and fitness alternatives, and other factors that examine social and personal habits and influences.
Academic and industry partnerships bring together the best of industry-specific and cutting-edge business knowledge to craft new and innovative ideas.
Mike Pettit
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Wabash
Read the full story about our collaborative partnership with Wabash.
When we explore different avenues through what the students help us understand, that opens up new ways of solving the problems that we face.
Dave Teeter
Vice President of Talent and Organizational Effectiveness, Wabash
What's really impressed me is [the students are] clearly getting a lot of training very early on. They’re well prepared for what's going to be required of them as they move from the academic world into the business world.
Michael Day
Executive Director, Engine Business Segment, Off-Highway Finance, Cummins
