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.
For this marketing project, students will partner with a watch business aiming to develop and implement a robust online eCommerce strategy to expand its market reach and drive sales. The project will involve analyzing the brand's current positioning, identifying key target audiences and assessing market trends in the competitive luxury and mid-range watch industry. Students will design a comprehensive eCommerce strategy, focusing on website design, user experience, digital marketing campaigns and potential integration with social media platforms and marketplaces. Additionally, students may explore the development of a prototype or mock-up for the online store, showcasing features such as intuitive navigation, product customization options and secure payment solutions.
This project addressed supply chain instability affecting a company in the energy and materials sector. Students were challenged to develop a strategic approach to improve the resilience of the company’s global supply chain network. The focus was on building transparency, diversifying sourcing, modernizing outdated systems and embedding proactive risk management practices to mitigate future disruptions and support sustainable growth. Two specific disruptions — a national rail strike and a fire at a supplier's facility — were used as case scenarios to analyze operational vulnerabilities and flow impacts.
Students will analyze the current economic conditions and future trend predictions for a list of cities provided by the industry partner, as well as the current and predicted future geographical landscape as it pertains to manufacturing in the consumer electronics industry.
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.
