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 project, the company worked alongside student teams to help analyze time series data better to help predict future outcomes in their product purchases. In addition, the company wants help in understanding any anomalies in time series data. When making recommendations, students will have to consider events that may affect stock or inventories in the products they offer. Overall, the company wants to be more precise in their future stock and be knowledgeable of the data they are working with to not skip over any useful insights.
This project consisted of working alongside the company’s client to help their client consolidate their customer records. As customer records were often duplicated within the same software or in various other multiple systems at the same time, it made it harder to standardize a simple, more efficient process. By completing the project goal of consolidating customer data into a single system and making sure all customer data is verified and complete (phone numbers, emails, postal addresses, etc.).
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.
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
