Max Problem Solving
During the Max Problem Solving course, MBA students apply the skills learned in their MBA journey to identify solutions to the most challenging problems faced by society. The goal of the course is to examine significant social issues, to understand them, propose solutions and, if they are unlikely to be solved in the short run, explore how a business should manage through it while it is being resolved.
Experiential Learning: Max Problem Solving
Work with academics, non-profits, HR leaders, Marketing/Technology experts, healthcare professionals and community leaders to identify and understand complex problems faced by society. MBA student teams:
- Apply cross-functional business knowledge to identify potential solutions
- Evaluate ways that affected businesses can mitigate these effects
- Determine ways that businesses can positively impact these problems and work toward a solution
- Assess possible courses of action by firms and society at large to address these problems
Course Structure
This seven-week course gives students hands-on exposure to conceptual frameworks to address the broad spectrum of problems they’ll encounter as real-world business leaders, with special attention to those aspects that may not have been covered as extensively in their previous classes, such as ethics.
- Students write about their unique business ethics problem, and then the class brainstorms what they believe to be current ethical business problems.
- Each student will then determine the problem of most importance to them, and self-assign themselves to a group that work together to recommend how to address that problem.
- Students’ knowledge will be supplemented by interactive approaches (case studies, role-plays, and speakers)